Example sentences of "[adj] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He proved himself to be thoroughly professional as a railwayman and ruthless as a manager . |
| 2 | ‘ You grow quite professional as a landlady . |
| 3 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you think he looks rather divine as an officer ? ’ |
| 5 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 6 | Perhaps underused as a source of prospects , the press is nevertheless important . |
| 7 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 8 | The inclusion of the retired as a separate group added a socio-demographic element to the typology and , although the classification was two-dimensional , the two axes were not considered to be independent . |
| 9 | Helleborus foetidus leaves and flowers preserve well — and it 's evergreen as a bonus . |
| 10 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 11 | First , medical treatment other than symptom control or management is uncalled-for as a matter of law and , indeed , is inappropriate ; not only is it unethical conduct , but the doctor could also be subject to legal sanction . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's weak as a kitten . |
| 13 | Poor as a church mouse by her standards , and weak as a kitten ! ’ |
| 14 | He flashed a sudden stunning smile and Robyn felt weak as a new surge of exhilaration raced through her . |
| 15 | Exports remained weak as a whole , however , comprising only about 6 per cent of production . |
| 16 | As this blood is responsible for carrying oxygen to the brain , some people are likely to become morose or depressed as a result . |
| 17 | Jim Callaghan 's response was that he ‘ had never in fifty years been so depressed as a trade unionist ’ . |
| 18 | And is it because of them that you 're worried about the future — do you get depressed as a grandparent ? |
| 19 | Indeed the Committee even extended this logic to a position whereby they felt themselves able to justify the decriminalisation of adult homosexual behaviour in private as a form of protection for the young : |
| 20 | Do n't overdo the length of the sequence : two or three minutes should be ample as an opener for your movie . |
| 21 | He felt strong as bronze , he encompassed her in a reach broad as a chestnut tree . |
| 22 | His back , broad as a standing stone … |
| 23 | A staircase broad as a major highway wound up through the tree , with vast rooms leading off at every landing . |
| 24 | Not badly at all , given the immense difficulty of restoring credibility to Labour as a party of government . |
| 25 | The first is that it will be harder for the Tories to portray Labour as a party gripped by extremism . |
| 26 | Parallel to his attempt to portray Labour as a consensus government , Mr Kinnock sought to turn his confession of ‘ errors of judgment ’ over Europe and unilateralism into virtues in sharp contrast to Tory failure to apologise for ‘ Thatcher mistakes ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact is that there is a huge group which sees Labour as a way of furthering the cause of CND . |
| 28 | The claims of censoring were rejected by Labour as a desperate Tory tactic . |
| 29 | Traditional Socialist values , notably egalitarianism , remain but , as Roy Hattersley frequently complains , Labour as a party has not embodied them in policies — or even slogans — that enunciate a clear vision of what a Labour Britain would be like . |
| 30 | Those of us who had been drawn towards Labour as a party of change now received a sharp reminder that whatever else it was at local level , it was at national level still essentially an electoral machine . |