Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irish gardens are islands of perfection in a landscape of empty fields as rough and tussocky as a moulting dog . |
| 2 | Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets . |
| 3 | I had expected an American senator to be as pompous and flatulent as a British MP , but George Crowninshield had proved affable and friendly . |
| 4 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 5 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 6 | Aldershot 's defence were as square and ragged as a new intake of squaddies having their first stab at the right dress , the gifts they distributed coming like manna from heaven to a team who had managed just two goals in their first nine games . |
| 7 | You have eyes as hot and sensuous as a blue summer sky . |
| 8 | When I get to the road , with St James 's Park beyond , as fresh and green as an early summer salad , I stop and turn . |
| 9 | The barn was as high and big as a huge hall , an earthen floor strewn with finely scattered straw . |
| 10 | It was as stiff and brittle as a lifesize plaster maquette . |
| 11 | It had become as comforting and necessary as a religious ritual , the brief preliminary washing which was like a dedication , the final ablution which was both a necessary chore and an absolution , as if by wiping the smell of his job from his body he could cleanse it from his mind . |
| 12 | It wo n't need anything as big and expensive as a nuclear power station to provide the fissile material . |
| 13 | " The fact that you ca n't take criticism without becoming as personal and spiteful as a neurotic girl is an example of what I mean . " |
| 14 | Things got worse after that , when I met Miranda : as dark and austere as a Welsh mining valley and as much fun as Chapel on Sunday . |
| 15 | Pots and vases from the dawn of human history , armour for the ‘ small man ’ of the middle ages , swords as long as a medium-sized lamp-post , delicately inlaid flint-lock pistols and hunting rifles , rooms and rooms and rooms full of dust-motes dancing in shafts of sunlight , the smell of wax and leather , the long shelves of dead things . |
| 16 | As long as a Unionist MP had to pay his election expenses , or an association chairman to " treat " the party workers , or a constituency delegate to pay his own expenses to a midweek conference , then few working men would ever be selected for any of these posts . |
| 17 | As long as a strong argument or sound reasons are given for your opinions they will stand on their own . |
| 18 | These properties of V4 cells only appear , however , as long as a large part of the scene is illuminated and the scene contains more than one coloured area , which Zeki achieves using a multicoloured stimulus array he calls a Mondrian . |
| 19 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 20 | As long as a sensible training programme is followed , the child 's body will develop at a pace that will match his/her ambitions . |
| 21 | Sheepskin or even fake fur will work as long as a tight seal is made between the piston and the walls of the chamber . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom has agreed to send forces for humanitarian relief in Bosnia as long as an effective ceasefire holds . |