Example sentences of "and as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was short , and as dark-skinned as the boatman , which was darker than most of the Bahamians . |
| 2 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 3 | It was about eight inches long , double edged and as sharp as a razor . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no danger , ’ he translated , his eyes on the soothsayer 's hands , ‘ but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle . ’ |
| 5 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 6 | She was beautiful , and as proud as a queen . |
| 7 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 8 | Ezra had neither toughness nor elasticity : he was as rigidly intelligent as a Plymouth brother ; and as vulnerable as a sea-anemone . |
| 9 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 10 | The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator . |
| 11 | He had played classical music on the stereo , which Boy had assured him he liked , and it was true ; Boy had never heard music like this before and he thought it was wonderful , a sound as big , and as warm , and as expensive as the car ; a sound as exciting as the sensation of being driven through the night by a stranger . |
| 12 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
| 13 | She felt small , and as frail as a bird . |
| 14 | Tall , and as strong as a lion . |
| 15 | Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox . |
| 16 | One moment she could be smiling tenderly as she fed the animals , the next filled with anger and as dangerous as a tiger at bay . |
| 17 | His profile looked as ancient as a Red Indian 's and as young as a street-child 's . |
| 18 | Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , who worked with him on the project , planned to be , as It predicted in late April , ‘ as experimental and as international as the Lord Chamberlain will allow ’ . |
| 19 | Ye 're my young brother 's bairn and as innocent as the lamb of God . ’ |
| 20 | Suddenly , black movies became Malcolm X-rated and Richard Roundtree appeared , not as some hat-tipping descendant of Uncle Remus , but as Shaft , a dark avenger , unstoppable , sex-sharp , streetwise and as cool as a Harlem icebox in December . |
| 21 | In a way she was imposing , and as statuesque as the pictures in front of her ; it was just that she was not , and never could be , her father 's type . |
| 22 | Theory-crammed history of artificial and military intelligence which suggests that the ‘ cybernetic organism ’ is as ancient as the Greeks and as modern as the Tomohawk missile . |
| 23 | In a spectacle as lurid and as colourful as the opening ceremony two weeks ago the city and the people handed the Olympic flag over to Atlanta , USA and 1996 . |
| 24 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 25 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
| 26 | He was a Cancer , ever-changing , unpredictable , as bright and as mysterious as the moon . |
| 27 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
| 28 | I was as helpless and as degraded as the pig on the bench at the top of our garden nearly thirty years ago . |
| 29 | But they are heavy , and as fragile as a Centurion tank . |
| 30 | Budget software was fully covered , with great screenshots and as much as a page per game ! |