Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Niall Grant was about as vulnerable as a shark ! |
| 2 | These arteries are about as wide as a drinking straw and they can all too easily become partially blocked with deposits of atheroma , a pasty mixture of cholesterol and cells . |
| 3 | In sporting terms , it was about as relevant as a showing of Treasure Hunt or Interceptor — the TV game shows which have occupied her recently . |
| 4 | You 're about as helpless as a hurricane . ’ |
| 5 | In this real world context , which will powerfully affect Britain , Mr Smith 's ‘ luvvie ’ proposals are about as useful as a powder puff to a man with chronic heart disease . |
| 6 | ‘ Steve Lavalle is about as spiritual as a traffic bollard , and four times less intelligent — and you know it . ’ |
| 7 | I get about as pissed as a bloke can . |
| 8 | In the press , in the House of Commons , in reports to government departments and in popular folklore there emerged the evacuee stereotype — a dirty , lice-ridden and foul-mouthed urchin who wet the bed with monotonous regularity , preferred fish and chips to a proper three-course meal and was about as domesticated as a wildcat ; similarly , the evacuee mother appeared as a negligent slut , impossible to live with and having the vocabulary of a Billingsgate fish porter . |
| 9 | It is the Alpine 's bizarre , clap-hands windscreen wipers which would do Heath Robinson proud with the unnecessary complexity of their design and engineering and , in the matter of clearing rain , are about as effective as a Government promise to bring more civil service jobs to Scotland . |
| 10 | For emotional resonance , flags are about as potent as a quadrilateral of cloth can be . |
| 11 | The same applies to Scrash , although they 're about as glamorous as a donkey on Skegness beach and marginally less attractive . |
| 12 | The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket , which was what it was principally used for . |
| 13 | That was about as welcome as a stick of shit in the tub-water . |
| 14 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 15 | It 's pretty unlikely that this session will ever see the light of day on Strange Fruit , as the label 's last Wah release ‘ The Mighty Wah ’ proved about as popular as a motorway scheme through Kew Gardens . |
| 16 | Kiss is about as valid as a football game ; it 's a release , a chance for people to forget about their problems for a couple of hours , get together in some celebration and loose off some pent-up energy . |
| 17 | It looks like something a navvy might use to dig roads up — thin , hollow metal tube , about as thick as a size 10 knitting needle , with a gimlet-like plunger . |
| 18 | Pete did n't know whether to duck or run , and the choice was fairly academic anyway , as for the moment his body seemed to be about as responsive as a sack of rocks . |
| 19 | You are about as pliable as a lump of granite . |
| 20 | It is about as big as a fist , and bound securely with black gaffer tape . |
| 21 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 22 | They are about as big as a potato . |
| 23 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |
| 24 | Alina mostly took her breaks alone ; she 'd sit in a corner with a magazine , usually one of Adele 's old wildlife partworks , and be about as obtrusive as a church mouse until her time was over . |
| 25 | Characteristically , after this burst of bitter humour he added that ‘ it was quite nice ’ even though he found his host ‘ about as intelligent as a mule and as human as a boa-constrictor ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Those meetings are about as bearable as a boil in the wrong place — though this one should be more interesting than most . |
| 27 | ‘ About as charming as a bout of flu , ’ Alyssia muttered under her breath . |
| 28 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 29 | Mogadishu , once known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean with its whitewashed buildings , leafy streets and pretty pavement cafes , is now more bullet-battered than Beirut and about as safe as a saunter through an Iraqi minefield . |
| 30 | You know , the kind which reads in full : ‘ About as riveting as watching snow melt , about as thrilling as a plate of polenta , ’ and is subsequently truncated to ‘ Rivetting ! ’ and ‘ Thrilling ! ’ . |