Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make them as bad as a ! |
| 2 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |
| 3 | I mean something as basic as the family tree yeah |
| 4 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 5 | And the moody Rich who would take a girl out to sit by a river , leave her as untouched as a Madonna in a Lady Chapel and read poetry aloud . |
| 6 | People who write things like that make themselves as bad as the thing they attack . |
| 7 | Take something as simple as a backdrop . |
| 8 | Take something as fundamental as the NHS and Community Care Act — we could have tested whether general practitioner fundholding was better than health care purchasing by districts . |
| 9 | We take it as self-evident that the adjectives in ( 1 ) are not predicatives , but the failure of the third form of interrogation confirms this . |
| 10 | They regard it as significant that the eighth and ninth century saw an increasing volume of exchanges not initiated by the state , but " privately-generated " ; and they look for the new wealth-creators among lords and peasants , finding in rural markets crucial mechanisms of exchange . |
| 11 | Accepting that qualification , I regard it as plain that the effect of an intervention notice cast in the terms which were here employed and which were reflected in a accompanying press release , must be most damaging to the authorised representative with whom further business is inhibited until ( if ever ) the notice is withdrawn . |
| 12 | Accepting that qualification , I regard it as plain that the effect of an intervention notice cast in the terms which were here employed and which were reflected in an accompanying press release , must be most damaging to the authorised representative with whom further business is prohibited until ( if ever ) the notice is withdrawn . |