Example sentences of "[noun] was as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense of disappointment was as sharp as a blow , painful out of all proportion , so much so that for a moment I was almost angry with him for not being there . |
| 2 | A typewriter was as individual as a fingerprint , or a set of teeth , or a gun barrel scoring a bullet . |
| 3 | Her mind was as hot as the mustard , words wanting to spill out , dirty the front of a yellow piqué dress . |
| 4 | His mind was as cold as the ice forming on the windscreen . |
| 5 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |
| 6 | Gilberto was as compact as a squash ball , sallow , ugly and muscular , yet amazingly deft in his movements . |
| 7 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 8 | Colonel Stok was as big as an old oak wardrobe . |
| 9 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |
| 10 | The result was not without promise , but distant memory suggests that the piece was as artificial as the clothes , a minor and mildly amusing exercise in an old-fashioned style . |
| 11 | His penis was as thick as a chair leg and measured something in the region of seven inches in a flaccid state . |
| 12 | The longed-for mistress of his heart was in his arms at last , soft and apparently willing , and if her lovemaking was as fiery as the rest of her , what delights might he not taste ? |
| 13 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 14 | Her mouth was as dry as a bone , but she resisted , ignoring the can he proffered , and stared resolutely up at him . |
| 15 | She was surrounded by water , yet her mouth was as dry as the Sahara . |
| 16 | But Travis was as immovable as a mountain , and angrily she let him go . |
| 17 | Moping around Meadowlands last year when Mario 's son was racing and the old man was too and the whole scene was as unglamorous as the Jersey flatlands can be , the burgers blazing on wet barbecues , Karl Haas 's cigar smouldering briefly in the foreground , it was as if Mario had brought a whole world of his own into the paddock , a world he 'd always had , that was completely self-sufficient and had a cleaner , friendlier air . |
| 18 | This was not simply courteous , Wickham was as attentive as the others . |
| 19 | A nod was as good as a wink . |
| 20 | Lydham Heath was as far as the railway had managed to get on its way to Wales . |
| 21 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 22 | The boy was as good as a murderer . |
| 23 | The price of the bow was as much as the income of a common man for a year . |
| 24 | Ruth was as agile as a dolphin in the water and she was away from him before he had a chance to stop her . |
| 25 | The campaign was as dead as a dodo . |
| 26 | his fall was as terrible as the fall of Eli . |
| 27 | By the time the Wyrmberg was in front of them , swinging wildly across the sky , the dragon was as real as a rock . |
| 28 | If Saint Monday was as normal as the modern Saturday , then why was so much fuss made about it ? |
| 29 | The younger boy 's passion for the poetry of his own place was as real as the older one 's passion for music . |
| 30 | De place was as mad as de world , |