Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irish gardens are islands of perfection in a landscape of empty fields as rough and tussocky as a moulting dog . |
| 2 | I had expected an American senator to be as pompous and flatulent as a British MP , but George Crowninshield had proved affable and friendly . |
| 3 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 4 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 5 | Aldershot 's defence were as square and ragged as a new intake of squaddies having their first stab at the right dress , the gifts they distributed coming like manna from heaven to a team who had managed just two goals in their first nine games . |
| 6 | You have eyes as hot and sensuous as a blue summer sky . |
| 7 | The barn was as high and big as a huge hall , an earthen floor strewn with finely scattered straw . |
| 8 | It was as stiff and brittle as a lifesize plaster maquette . |
| 9 | It had become as comforting and necessary as a religious ritual , the brief preliminary washing which was like a dedication , the final ablution which was both a necessary chore and an absolution , as if by wiping the smell of his job from his body he could cleanse it from his mind . |
| 10 | It wo n't need anything as big and expensive as a nuclear power station to provide the fissile material . |
| 11 | " The fact that you ca n't take criticism without becoming as personal and spiteful as a neurotic girl is an example of what I mean . " |
| 12 | Things got worse after that , when I met Miranda : as dark and austere as a Welsh mining valley and as much fun as Chapel on Sunday . |