Example sentences of "[am/are] as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you 're as good as a master they still wo n't give you the top black |
| 2 | I know they 're as good as a house almost . |
| 3 | You 're as snug as a bug in a rug here , Myles . |
| 4 | In some areas you 're as blinkered as a donkey . |
| 5 | You 've the body of an angel holding out the lure of forbidden fruit , yet you 're as insubstantial as a nymph who flits through the mountain streams . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Travis put in casually , ‘ you 're as tense as a bow-string . ’ |
| 7 | Nigel muttered , ‘ You 're as blind as a bat , ’ as he went out . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're as bossy as a copper , you are , ’ said Dolly . |
| 9 | You 're as pale as a nun . |
| 10 | You 're as transparent as a crépe de chine nightie . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're as transparent as a plastic bag , ’ said Cassie , laughing at her . |
| 12 | Well you 're either sort of scraping off the ceiling cos you 're as high as a kite |
| 13 | You 're as light as a feather . |
| 14 | ‘ OK , ugly duckling , take all the time you need , but I insist on force-feeding you that sangría before we leave : you 're as uptight as a barnacle on a boat 's bum . ’ |
| 15 | What about a log , we 're as quiet as a log ? |
| 16 | ‘ You 're as white as a sheet and you 're shaking . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're as white as a sheet , ’ he returned implacably . |
| 18 | You 're as white as a sheet . ’ |
| 19 | It 's nice to know that junk food does n't just put weight on , you know on , on everybody else , I do n't know , you eat junk food , and there you are as skinny as a rake , it 's not on sometimes , but there you are . |
| 20 | I did n't mind using the gears to achieve this , because clutch and gear change are as slick as a car 's — ladies take note . |
| 21 | Any report on coverage should also include radio and TV , and here tapes and transcripts are as useful as a time assessment in showing the quality of the coverage . |
| 22 | Both powers in practice are as useful as a parachute in a space ship — reassuring but not very practical . |
| 23 | And what a despicable set of values — rendered all the more offensive by the revelations from Wall Street , London , Tokyo and Dublin , that the mandarins , gurus and executors of capitalism are as trustworthy as a fox guarding a chicken coop . |
| 24 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 25 | You are as bad as a murderer ! ’ |
| 26 | One would be the version to be found in the published research papers , those strange constrained pieces of writing whose conventions are as rigid as a sonnet , whose scientific account is always a set of clearly designed , unambiguously conducted and conclusive observations , building from earlier data and , in their final paragraphs , pointing the way to future experiments ( ‘ more research is needed to … ’ ) . |
| 27 | Some of them are frail physically but are as bright as a button in their minds . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm as selfish as a pig , deep down , ’ she says . |
| 29 | They 'll take one look at my clothes and know I 'm as poor as a church mouse . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ One minute I 'm very small , the next minute I 'm as tall as a house , then I 'm small again . |