Example sentences of "[noun] is as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grief is as individual as a fingerprint . |
| 2 | ‘ And mine penis , ’ he proclaimed , ‘ mine penis is as big as the World Trade Centre . ’ |
| 3 | The result is as strong as the original fence . |
| 4 | Nige is as fascinating as the average chap in the pub ! |
| 5 | His mind is as fixed as the pole star . ’ |
| 6 | To meet force with force is successful only if the defender is as strong as the attacker . |
| 7 | To propose across the board mutilation is as dangerous as the idea of trying to perfect the genes of every species on Earth . |
| 8 | Unlike Britain , the black population in the United States is as indigenous as the white . |
| 9 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 10 | Ideal for a small flat , the washer/dryer is as sophisticated as the one in the main house 's utility room . |
| 11 | There are many theories but the mystery surrounding Stonehenge is as perpetual as the stones themselves . |
| 12 | The whole scene is as lifeless as a huge painted canvas . |
| 13 | Mid Southern 's head of operations Colin Nice told the Herald this week that water supply is the same as last year , but that if next winter is as dry as the last , there would be problems . |
| 14 | A good liar and a bold thief he may be , but on most counts Tutilo is as innocent as a babe . |
| 15 | ‘ A nod is as good as a wink to a blind man ’ the saying goes — and so it may be , for the man can see neither . |
| 16 | Far too often misleading views arise because an excessively selective approach has been adopted in order to further the cause of a particular ideological viewpoint ; and here Sartre is as guilty as the hostile Stalinist hatchet-men . |
| 17 | All this may be for the locals , but in Cologne you 'll find the welcome extended to visitors is as warm as a schnapps downed in one . |
| 18 | The government feels it can rely on er auditors to protect the interests of share holders and the creditors and the other stake holders but I have to tell the minister that that reliance which is now er strengthened by the regulations b by the er the order today has always proved er inadequate in the er in in the past er because poor auditing practices always get covered up , there 's no way for anybody to know how bad or how good er the audit is as long as a company er survives and we have n't developed in this country , the proper institutional framework to regulate auditors er effectively and to actually make them er er accountable . |
| 19 | A poofter-joke in the canteen , and your laugh is as raucous as the next guy 's . |
| 20 | in the museum is as old as a Pharoah . |
| 21 | Independence is as fictitious as the homogenous nation state , yet is is thought of as an ‘ objective ’ , because it is not possible at the moment to separate from an existing dominant state without making your own alternative . |
| 22 | Indeed , evidence already exists that the first meiotic metaphase is as susceptible as the second ( Development in Mammals , vol 1 , p 145 ) . |
| 23 | The paid work of women at home is as invisible as the unpaid work of women at home , and as poorly rewarded as the work of women the world over . |
| 24 | For me , nothing in War and Peace is as valuable as the boat-cutting-out expeditions of Marryat and for me he remains the greatest of English novelists . |
| 25 | The nature of scientific discovery is as varied as the nature of science itself . |
| 26 | A cash flow forecast , showing the sources and uses of money for the period in question is as important as the balance sheet in this situation . |
| 27 | The wording of the question is as important as the form . |
| 28 | A cash flow forecast , showing the sources and uses of money for the period in question is as important as the balance sheet in this situation . |
| 29 | Most remarkable of all is the degree of concentration in London , which on the same functional basis is as large as the eight next largest cities in Britain put together ( Champion et al. , 1984 , Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | The Pomagne is as safe as a Trevor Brooking driving offence . |