Example sentences of "[was/were] as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Rabbi Schmelke and his wife were as poor as the beggar . |
| 2 | The talk was general , candlelit faces leaned across the table and the hands which peeled the fruit or fidgeted with the glasses were as individual as the faces . |
| 3 | She looked up at Ruth , her face transparent , almost colourless ; but her eyes were as deep as the sea . |
| 4 | The improvisation stretched on , drawing Susan into it , locking into set patterns of repetition which were as fascinating as the gaze of a cobra . |
| 5 | To the Romanian audience for these trials ( which were broadcast live on television ) , the lists of cartons of cigarettes or kilos of refrigerated meat were as fascinating as the tales of the riches of the Sultan in One Thousand and One Nights . |
| 6 | The American New Critics and I.A. Richards before them were as anxious as the Formalists to sever literature from its historical and biographical context , and their preoccupation with form and technique has many points of analogy with that of their Formalist counterparts . |
| 7 | THE celebrations were as absent as the residents yesterday in the ‘ Free Town ’ of Zvornik on the Bosnian-Serbian border . |
| 8 | The curtain rose to the usual restless flutter of the audience , the last coughs — audiences were as predictable as the performers in their reactions and the chorus began their opening song . |
| 9 | Their goal , in the 46th minute , came from their first shot on target , and it was a real sickener for a Linfield defence who otherwise were as solid as a rock . |
| 10 | I saw her an hour since and she were as right as a bobbin . " |
| 11 | The nights were as hot as the days . |
| 12 | Her eyes were as blue as the patch of bright sky which had suddenly emerged from between the clouds and when she looked at him he was sure there was invitation in their depths . |
| 13 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 14 | The routes into this source of inspiration were as various as the practitioners ; but whether the result was Frida Kahlo 's overt self portraiture , the fantastic fusions of myth , dream and autobiography produced by Leonor Fini , Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington , or the more oblique stylisation of body parts presented by Ithell Colquhoun , Eileen Agar and Meret Oppenheim ; again and again the art of these pioneering women traced out a personal terrain which centred around their own physicality . |
| 15 | Clearly , the motives for giving to charities of all kinds were as various as the gifts . |
| 16 | His eyes were as golden as a hawk 's , but so still and intent they awed her faintly . |
| 17 | The curving flesh-coloured horns were yellow at the base , those of the Alderney often brownish , and the skin and body fat were as golden as the milk . |
| 18 | It is difficult to say how many of these men were as fortunate as the vicar of Henfield , who in 1209 was to receive all oblations and legacies , a tithe of any new land to be cleared and ‘ tithe of calves , lambs , wool , pigs , chicken , geese , ducks , eggs , honey and wax , mills , fisheries , venison , hemp and flax , gardens , garlick , onions , leeks , and all pot-herbs ’ . |
| 19 | Henry 's preparations for the consultation were as methodical as a dentist 's . |
| 20 | The glittering courtiers were as scattered as the bodies of the soldiers in their bright Second Empire uniforms who lay in the fields of Eastern France . |
| 21 | It is rare to find such a large and well-preserved painting from classical times , and it shows , as one might expect , that classical painters were as skilled as the sculptors , whose often unsurpassed work has understandably survived in greater abundance . |
| 22 | But the pressure of surrounding poverty and the fear of it were as inescapable as a shadow . |
| 23 | Profits in the first half of this year were as flat as a low-loader — rolling in little changed at £16.8 million . |
| 24 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
| 25 | And if black holes were as varied as the objects that collapsed to form them , it might be very difficult to make any predictions about black holes in general . |
| 26 | Today her eyes were as dull as a puddle . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal held that because the principle of effective protection only required that national courts should provide remedies for the protection of European rights which were as effective as the remedies available for the protection of similar rights in English law ; and since a plaintiff can recover damages against governmental bodies in English law only if a breach of private law can be shown ; and since the challenged action would not be actionable in tort in English law ; it followed that the principle of effective protection did not require that damages be available to the plaintiff as a remedy . |
| 28 | They were only three words but at that moment they were as pertinent as the universe . |
| 29 | They were as bad as the communists . |
| 30 | The rest , ’ he shrugged , ‘ were as silent as the grave . |