Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as she watched him , perched as lithe as a cat on the prow , leaning back out over the waves to balance the little craft , his splendid chest scattered with little beads of water , Ronni was aware that she did n't really mean it . |
| 2 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 3 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 4 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 5 | Instead , the best accounts of the ‘ causes ’ of language are social and psychological , where language is seen as occurring as a result of interactions between people and their environments . |
| 6 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 7 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 8 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 9 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , as we know from his rages at players who 've had as much as a sniff of the barmaid 's apron , is the man who put the temper in temperance . |
| 10 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 11 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 12 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 13 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 14 | The very science that he is , presumably , engaged in can itself be recognized as existing as a practice within three of the ISAs he refers to ; the educational , the political and the communicative ISAs . |
| 15 | As far as I know he has never received as much as a warning as an amateur or professional . ’ |
| 16 | The big wooden table had been scrubbed as white as a bone on the seashore . |
| 17 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |
| 18 | Though maybe pretty was n't the word the way her hair was cut as short as a boy 's and her face dark from the sun . |
| 19 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 20 | His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick . |
| 21 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |