Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed totally relaxed , but Polly was suddenly as nervous as a kitten . |
| 2 | Ronni squeaked a puny protest , her body suddenly as stiff as a rod of iron , as Guido 's hand closed around her wrist . |
| 3 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 4 | The back avenue was a secondary way from the house , only as wide as a street , it ran between a shrubbery and a park-like field until it reached the farmyard wall . |
| 5 | A path cut precariously into the valley side , sometimes only as wide as an animal 's body , sometimes passing through the cliff itself . |
| 6 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 7 | On some days ( not enjoyed by any of us ) perhaps as many as a quarter of our cases will be requests for euthanasia . |
| 8 | She eased down his pants to his ankles , and she saw that his cock was already as stiff as a poker . |
| 9 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 10 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
| 11 | But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help . |
| 12 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 13 | Once agreement is reached , the settlement is just as final as a judgment and , unless the agreement has been improperly procured , the issues of fact and law raised in the original claim may not be the subject of further litigation . |
| 14 | In fact , a man 's skin can be just as dry as a woman 's . |
| 15 | Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours . |
| 16 | But it would also be just as probable as a jump to any other biomorph in the land . |
| 17 | The Bingo of the housewife or pensioner certainly has its social value but if the relation-ship is addictive even this can become just as consuming as a Poker school or greyhound race . |
| 18 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 19 | In the case of humans — to the physical factors or the environment , the ideological environment must be added , because a idea is just as valid as a kick in the teeth ; ideas are actually more important stimuli to the nervous system than are other types of stimuli ; ideas are , or induce , emotions that evoke energy in the nervous system . ’ |
| 20 | Oh I see what you mean , no I do n't think he 'll come home as bright as a button , somehow or other |
| 21 | Applications should be made as early as possible as a decision from HCIMA is normally required prior to enrolling on a programme of studies . |
| 22 | He switched off the lights and opened the curtains ; the night was still as black as a stone . |
| 23 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Her own feelings swung so violently between attraction and a very real fear and hate of what he 'd forced her to do that she was still as prickly as a porcupine in his presence , unless they were talking about work . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you are still as slim as a reed — coltish , I believe your father used to say — you still have the same intriguing green eyes and those slanting eyebrows … ’ |
| 26 | He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse . |
| 27 | I 'm still as randy as an adolescent |
| 28 | By that time — possibly as little as a year and a half after Jesus 's death — they must already have been widespread and numerous , because Paul , acting on behalf of the established Sadducee priesthood and armed with warrants from the High Priest , undertakes to hunt them out as far away as Damascus . |
| 29 | This young girl usually had all these qualities , though now , in the last months of her pregnancy , she was hardly as slim as a reed . |
| 30 | He 's good , he 's brilliant , and he 's probably as sound as a bell . |