Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My life with him was short , ’ his wife said , ‘ but clear and bright as a crystal . ’ |
| 2 | The sky became as clear and grey as a mountain rock-pool . |
| 3 | Varying the textures within this sort of monochromatic colour scheme can be just as interesting and lively as a scheme full of more obvious contrasts . |
| 4 | His reply was as light and harmless as a butterfly . |
| 5 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 6 | He is most relaxed when he is in the converted barn in Devon that is now his painting studio ; it is stone-floored and filled with light and quiet as a church . |
| 7 | Behind him the minister stood as straight and shadowy as a cypress tree . |
| 8 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 9 | If all these gorgeous chaps are going to rally to the standard when we stick it in the salt pot , then I , for one , am going to be as fragrant and petal-soft as a lady in a soap commercial . |
| 10 | As frail and pitiful as a moth in spring . |
| 11 | It was as tall and cold as a glacier rolling down a valley , crunching trees like matchsticks . |
| 12 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 13 | He becomes as soft and nervous as a cow ( 1867 ) ; he feels as worn out as a donkey ( 1867 ) ; yet still he splashes in the Seine like a porpoise ( 1870 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ It began as a sort of rest-station and leave resort , as seasonal and artificial as a seaside fun-fair . |
| 15 | Her eyes , no longer hidden behind glasses , looked large and blue as a summer sky . |
| 16 | Traditionally bureaucracy has been described as a role culture , but there is no reason to suppose that the different cultures can not all exist within the same organisation particularly if the organisation is as large and diverse as a government department or a local authority . |
| 17 | Despite the homely sounds , the place felt as cold and dank as a tomb . |
| 18 | Simply by sitting there , he rendered the dining-room as cold and cheerless as a room in a commercial traveller 's guesthouse . |
| 19 | It was as lifeless and rigid as a piece of sculpture ; dispelling the illusion of flight . |
| 20 | He snatches the issue from politicians and makes it as grand and simple as a silver screen story . |
| 21 | His voice was as flat and heavy as a sheet of lead . |
| 22 | What the critics say about Oscar ‘ As black and satisfying as a pint of Guinness ’ The Independent ‘ brilliant and disturbing ’ Sunday Times , about Anne ‘ Sharp and idiosyncratic ’ The Guardian . |
| 23 | Unable to get his life and work in gear , Chris Penn changed his name and for a time worked on a building site before earning good money being beaten black and blue as a prize fighter . |
| 24 | Her hair was long and black as a raven 's feather , untied so one wing partially covered her patch-covered missing eye . |
| 25 | The water 's deep and cold as a grave here ! |
| 26 | Alokut ( sic ) , the younger of the two , was even taller than his brother , as graceful and supple as a cougar . |
| 27 | Forty feet below lies the underground , busy and blind as a mole . |
| 28 | Pavel was feeling as loose and unconnected as a bag of spanners , and with about as much energy . |
| 29 | It 'll be the kind of place you might walk out of as brisk and easy as a knife cutting butter , or you might very well wander about for days , well , weeks even , without finding a proper door . |
| 30 | Nothing , as both men knew , could be quite as sombre and sickening as a suicide ( or , as here , an attempted suicide ) , for it spoke not only of unbearable suffering but also of a certain misguided fortitude . |