Example sentences of "be [prep] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 2 | In this real world context , which will powerfully affect Britain , Mr Smith 's ‘ luvvie ’ proposals are about as useful as a powder puff to a man with chronic heart disease . |
| 3 | For emotional resonance , flags are about as potent as a quadrilateral of cloth can be . |
| 4 | These arteries are about as wide as a drinking straw and they can all too easily become partially blocked with deposits of atheroma , a pasty mixture of cholesterol and cells . |
| 5 | It is the Alpine 's bizarre , clap-hands windscreen wipers which would do Heath Robinson proud with the unnecessary complexity of their design and engineering and , in the matter of clearing rain , are about as effective as a Government promise to bring more civil service jobs to Scotland . |
| 6 | His outbursts of bilious misogyny are about as shocking as a small boy shouting ‘ Bum ! ’ |
| 7 | For , although the methods by which different animal species obtain their food are about as diverse as the number of animal species , there are certain broad patterns to be seen . |
| 8 | The name is not well chosen — intelibots are about as intelligent as the players they serve . |
| 9 | They are about as cheerful as the place they run to . |
| 10 | They are about as big as a potato . |
| 11 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |
| 12 | ‘ Those meetings are about as bearable as a boil in the wrong place — though this one should be more interesting than most . |
| 13 | You are about as pliable as a lump of granite . |
| 14 | However , this would not have been worth as much as the Guardian payout to the average investor . |
| 15 | You 're about as helpless as a hurricane . ’ |
| 16 | You have an open face , Nick , and you smile too easily , and you 're much too honest , and you really ca n't resist helping people ; and frankly , you 're about as subtle as a Mack truck . |
| 17 | The same applies to Scrash , although they 're about as glamorous as a donkey on Skegness beach and marginally less attractive . |
| 18 | Alina mostly took her breaks alone ; she 'd sit in a corner with a magazine , usually one of Adele 's old wildlife partworks , and be about as obtrusive as a church mouse until her time was over . |
| 19 | Pete did n't know whether to duck or run , and the choice was fairly academic anyway , as for the moment his body seemed to be about as responsive as a sack of rocks . |
| 20 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 21 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 22 | The trouble here is that the implausibility of the truth of scepticism is about as great as the implausibility of the truth of anti-realism . |
| 23 | ‘ Steve Lavalle is about as spiritual as a traffic bollard , and four times less intelligent — and you know it . ’ |
| 24 | Santorini is about as stable as the proverbial blancmange . |
| 25 | We suggest that six is about as many as an observer can cope with . |
| 26 | Whatever the buying power of the greenback elsewhere , to Lloyds Bank in London it is about as useful as a Russian rouble , an Indian rupee or a Mexican peso . |
| 27 | A Conservative Club is about as probable as a solid gold statue of Sir Ian MacGregor . |
| 28 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |
| 29 | Kiss is about as valid as a football game ; it 's a release , a chance for people to forget about their problems for a couple of hours , get together in some celebration and loose off some pent-up energy . |
| 30 | Compared with the mysteries surrounding the deaths of President Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe , the controversy surrounding Spandau 's 93-year-old inmate is about as interesting as the fall of a dead leaf . |