Example sentences of "[noun] as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the spotlight has been on men — a reflection of the place of women in the arts as much as a marker of the unacceptability of lesbianism . |
| 2 | Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her . |
| 3 | The cook came up the side as quick as a monkey and saw what we were doing . |
| 4 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 5 | Frogs , lizards and small mammals are all hunted on the ground ; and the largest rattlesnakes , such as the diamondbacks , which may exceed 2 m ( 6l/2 ft ) in length , feed on animals as large as a hare . |
| 6 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 7 | Shady Marcus at last exposed the soap 's Mr Big but it had all the dramatic impact of one of those dated Ealing comedies where George Cole plays a gangster as threatening as a game show host . |
| 8 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 9 | A grille was opened , revealing an evil , narrow-faced , yellow-featured man with eyes of watery blue and a mouth as thin as a vice . |
| 10 | His rich guest merely made a sound , unable clearly to articulate a word with his mouth as wadded as a feather pillow . |
| 11 | He was a tallish man with a mind as sharp as a razor . |
| 12 | Our hotel , the Atlantico , overlooked the harbour , and that evening we watched a local single-engined plane repeatedly flying over the harbour as low as a couple of hundred feet above the cranes . |
| 13 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 14 | With eyes as wide as a football pool , |
| 15 | She could still remember it all intensely : the swimming pool in which she had learnt to do a dog-paddle ; the ring game ; the endless stretch of blue ocean ; the vast liner as big as a city through which she and Pappy had wandered endlessly . |
| 16 | She keeps their home as clean as a refrigerator and about as warm . |
| 17 | Indeed , until acts of 1775 and 1777 introduced bottom limits of £1 and £5 respectively , some north-western manufacturers issued promissory notes to facilitate the payment of wages for denominations as low as a shilling . |
| 18 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 19 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 20 | Indeed , extra-curricular activity includes attracting as much media attention as possible as a member of Act-Up , the New York activists whose purpose is to elevate Aids to the top of government priorities . |
| 21 | Some have hearing which is so acute that they can detect insects as tiny as a midge up to 60 feet away . |
| 22 | All four racks are crammed with fish as oily as a politician 's smile . |
| 23 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 24 | He accepted Toby 's outstretched hand , its appearance as limp as a flipper , only to find that the grasp was strong and confident . |
| 25 | dogs and other pets snakes and other poisonous creatures There 's no weapon as versatile as a knife . |
| 26 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 27 | ‘ Where do ye work ? ’ she asked casually , making the question sound as disinterested as a comment about the weather or the conductor 's handkerchief . |
| 28 | He deserves a medal as big as a frying pan . ’ |
| 29 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 30 | It 's a well-known fact that no one likes a good joke as much as a mallard . ’ |