Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 2 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 3 | By later blackboard-jungle classroom-rebel standards he would have appeared as disciplined as a fearful nun . |
| 4 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 5 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 6 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 7 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |