Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
2 | But what does happen is that people are directed away from blighted homes we know that that happens , it happens all the time , as soon as a home 's name is mentioned social workers , quite honourably believe that there 's no sense in putting down people 's names , no no sense in sending people there and you would expect nothing different from them so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy . |
3 | As soon as a post 's routine was established it would be attacked : Sergeant James and two sappers lay for two days watching a post before deciding that breakfast-time was the right moment for such an attack . |
4 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
5 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
6 | In the heart of the Disney complex there are three championship courses , the Magnolia , the Palm and Lake Buena Vista , as well as a beginner 's course called Wee Links . |
7 | There was a sugar shortage as well as a miner 's strike . |
8 | Oh , I see , so you were erm a trained nurse as well as a children 's nurse ? |
9 | Next year they will be appearing in Channel 4 's production of a 1906 melodrama , Emily 's Ghost , as well as a Children 's Film Unit production of Mama and Papa in Suffolk . |
10 | The well tended garden has deckchairs and parasols as well as a children 's play area . |
11 | Parfums Givenchy produces and distributes five fragrance lines for women and three for men throughout the world , as well as a children 's cologne . |
12 | As well as a constructor 's number , Falcon 20 aircraft delivered outside of North America were allotted a production number in the range 401–540 . |
13 | It goes together as simply as a child 's building blocks |
14 | Yet , if she stopped to examine it , was n't there something better than intoxication being built between them , as delicately as a spider 's web , line by gossamer line ? |
15 | Her hand lay in mine as lightly as a bird 's wing . |