Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 2 | This will be a series of reasoned , relevant points made in much the same way as a lawyer presents a case in a court of law , though your case will not be as one-sided as a lawyer 's and your judge will be the reader or teacher ! |
| 3 | ‘ I hope there 's a fat cheque in the posh otherwise I shall be as poor as a church mouse . |
| 4 | In some cabinets this may be as simple as a tray beneath the cabinet , which collects the water . |
| 5 | There is a tiny hole at the end , and if you go into this hole ( you 'd have to be as small as a fig wasp to do so , and they are minute : thankfully too small to notice when you eat a fig ) , you find hundreds of tiny flowers lining the walls . |
| 6 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 7 | ‘ If I could have a few minutes — let's say half an hour — to think it over and make some notes , I daresay we 'll be as right as a snail 's whisker . ’ |
| 8 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 9 | And then I want my shaft to be as long as a furlong and time to stand still and my tongue to be dipped in honey . |
| 10 | The average stay is five to six months , but sometimes it may be as much as a year . |
| 11 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 12 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 13 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 14 | You will be as worthless as a piece of dirt on the sole of my shoe . |
| 15 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ It will be as hot as a world heavyweight fight . |
| 17 | It was therefore greatly in the masters " interests to insist that there was " no point " in the women learning the later skills ( because they were not strong enough , because they would leave the trade early , because they would " never be as good as a man " and so on ) . |
| 18 | With you and Cenzo together , our family will be as solid as a rock . ’ |
| 19 | A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry . |
| 20 | If madame was like her son then she would be as tall as a tree . |
| 21 | ‘ I shall be as tall as a house in a minute , ’ she said . |
| 22 | It is to be as visible as a city built upon a hill . |
| 23 | She 's a beautiful woman , but she can be as hard as a man . |
| 24 | It was getting to be as big as a cathedral . |
| 25 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 26 | " The slice of bread should be as big as a dessert plate and nearly 1 inch thick . |
| 27 | If I was lying on that floor I 'd be as hungry as a cat outside a birdcage . |
| 28 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 29 | Shreeves said : ‘ Gary could be as bright as a button on Monday , but I felt we had to let Graham Taylor know . ’ |
| 30 | He 'll be as sick as a pig . |