Example sentences of "[conj] as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be as utilitarian as the rigid polyurethane foam commonly used in the reinforcement of GRP bodyshells , or as elegant as the aluminium or Nomex honeycombs employed in pukka aerospace sandwich materials ( as seen recently through holes in the wings of Tornado jets involved in the Gulf conflict ) . |
| 2 | Under the Local Government Act 1929 it was the positive duty of the local authority to recover the whole of the expenses ( or as much as the person could afford ) . |
| 3 | ok , this poem 's called erm A Pause In A Moment Worn out days dressed in damp wheat , heavy coat pulling at tired shoulders , memory pushed back , brought forward in the click of a stick , pause in a moment , sunset reflected in eyes offering the warmth of recognition , so that poem started with the overcoat and that was the mood as I say , that was the mood of rejection erm and there was something about the way the old girl was looking at the women on the bridge , almost as if there was this recognition and , as it brought back memories that perhaps went or as black as the overcoat , erm the next er painting which I 'm going to read to you about is erm have you |
| 4 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
| 5 | Business plans can be as simple or as complicated as the designer wishes , but their prime function is to set well-defined goals and to identify the resources in terms of time , finance , accommodation , equipment , personnel and training that will be required to meet the objectives . |
| 6 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 7 | At the same time it can exploit the low thermal conductivity of the air ; i.e. the way the temperature of the air itself is neither as hot nor as cool as the land surface . |
| 8 | Er , my Lord I have to say that as far as the expert evidence from the accountant is concerned it is only Mr who has er offered an opinion , expressed an opinion upon that issue . |
| 9 | She was short , and as dark-skinned as the boatman , which was darker than most of the Bahamians . |
| 10 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 11 | It was about eight inches long , double edged and as sharp as a razor . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no danger , ’ he translated , his eyes on the soothsayer 's hands , ‘ but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle . ’ |
| 13 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 14 | She was beautiful , and as proud as a queen . |
| 15 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 16 | Ezra had neither toughness nor elasticity : he was as rigidly intelligent as a Plymouth brother ; and as vulnerable as a sea-anemone . |
| 17 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 18 | The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator . |
| 19 | He had played classical music on the stereo , which Boy had assured him he liked , and it was true ; Boy had never heard music like this before and he thought it was wonderful , a sound as big , and as warm , and as expensive as the car ; a sound as exciting as the sensation of being driven through the night by a stranger . |
| 20 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
| 21 | She felt small , and as frail as a bird . |
| 22 | Tall , and as strong as a lion . |
| 23 | Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox . |
| 24 | One moment she could be smiling tenderly as she fed the animals , the next filled with anger and as dangerous as a tiger at bay . |
| 25 | His profile looked as ancient as a Red Indian 's and as young as a street-child 's . |
| 26 | Ye 're my young brother 's bairn and as innocent as the lamb of God . ’ |
| 27 | Theory-crammed history of artificial and military intelligence which suggests that the ‘ cybernetic organism ’ is as ancient as the Greeks and as modern as the Tomohawk missile . |
| 28 | In a spectacle as lurid and as colourful as the opening ceremony two weeks ago the city and the people handed the Olympic flag over to Atlanta , USA and 1996 . |
| 29 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 30 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |