Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landscape is as simple , naive and charming as a child 's painting . |
| 2 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 3 | His voice was hoarse as a raven 's croak . |
| 4 | Shiny as a coalman 's sack , |
| 5 | Fangs fine as a lady 's needle and bright . |
| 6 | The lounge is grey , cosy as a doctor 's waiting room . |
| 7 | When Lalage , neat as a Nannie 's child in her blue Viyella dressing-gown , had darted off to the bathroom , Nicandra , for the present absolved from her duties as friend and hostess , wound up her gramophone and , as she undressed , surged and swooned pleasantly to the heart-breaking cadences of the Caprice Viennois . |
| 8 | The tin is pock-marked as a Pakistani 's cheek . |
| 9 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 10 | Spring leaves of pure sap green silver-haired as a child 's arm . |
| 11 | The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist 's waiting-room . |
| 12 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 13 | Glossy surfers ' hair , eyes blue as a robin 's egg and a dreamy far-off ocean at dawn . |
| 14 | Her stomach and oviduct do not have muscles which can contract and so expel her young as a mammal 's womb has . |
| 15 | The earwig is not immediately recognisable as a gardener 's friend , and has been known to damage fruit . |
| 16 | Look to th'self though , she 's spiteful as a witch 's cat ! ’ |
| 17 | Nothing in this world is so flawlessly lovely as a butterfly 's wing : nowhere else is there such perfection of pattern and colour . |