Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realize how inadequate my picture of Laura was ; that I had made no room in my thoughts for an independent life of her own , let alone one as earthed and pragmatic as the potter 's craft . |
| 2 | I naturally charged him as little as possible but the money he earned went on other things — fresh meat from the butcher , extra milk and biscuits . |
| 3 | She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted . |
| 4 | Not many lives ago there were public hangings in this country and people certainly thought it was their right to watch and enjoy in fact , they even paid for seats to see public hangings , if they could afford to and as Mr has pointed out , er it 's not long ago er that bear baiting and badger baiting and cock fighting were seen as right and proper and no doubt spoken of as rights of free born Englishmen . |
| 5 | The cloth is then wrung out as dry as possible and the deposited water recovered while it is still hot . |
| 6 | In both cases , the wood should be as dry as possible when the wood hardener is applied , and when this is dry , the two-part epoxy-resin wood filler is pressed into the cavity to give a noncrack , non-shrink repair . |
| 7 | In both cases , the wood should be as dry as possible when the wood hardener is applied , and when this is dry , the two-part epoxy-resin wood filler is pressed into the cavity to give a non-crack , non-shrink repair . |
| 8 | Cork and Sam Quigg of Belfast proving that the Irish can be as alert and constructive as the rest of Britain . |
| 9 | Passats , BMWs , dormer windows , back extensions , wooden garden sheds , all meant something more than at first appeared — white wooden railings , gold nameplates on doors , stained-glass windows in bathrooms , net curtains , numbered dustbins , unnumbered dustbins , sash windows , plate-glass windows , windows with double glazing , windows without double glazing , walls painted white , all of this was part of a body of myth as strange and mysterious as the Epic of Gilgamesh . |
| 10 | At the heart of the urgent appeal of such songs are Tom 's strident vocals , which sound every bit as doomy and forceful as the material demands . |
| 11 | It was as tall and cold as a glacier rolling down a valley , crunching trees like matchsticks . |
| 12 | As frail and pitiful as a moth in spring . |
| 13 | All the difference in the world between somewhere as spacious as this and a crowded tube carriage . |
| 14 | Cos then yo , once you have the doors closed as low as that cos no air gets in ! |
| 15 | The other requirements for keeping leather corals , apart from current and light , are much the same as for other coelenterates ; well-filtered water with phosphate and nitrate at levels as low as possible and no fish that would eat or damage them . |
| 16 | The gate works simply and positively , and providing the threshold is set as low as possible and the release rate as long as possible , no untoward clicks or glitches show up . |
| 17 | Half an hour later , her second son emerged , as strong and healthy as the first , and Pen Browning arrived two hours later to go into paroxysms of delight . |
| 18 | I do n't think any woman , unless an old maid , hankers after emancipation of that sort , which seems to mean that , mounted on her bike , a girl can ride away anywhere and do anything all alone , without either male friend or chaperone , that she can guide and protect herself and be as free and easy as the wind … |
| 19 | For all I know he may be as fresh and innocent as the dawn 's early dew . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | When I get to the road , with St James 's Park beyond , as fresh and green as an early summer salad , I stop and turn . |
| 22 | Now , following the rains , the wild Australian bush was as meek and hospitable as the English countryside , with only the incidental reminder of its former ferocity . |
| 23 | And most , they tend to add , are about as interesting and distinctive as the cowboy hats that the men still insist on wearing . |
| 24 | Varying the textures within this sort of monochromatic colour scheme can be just as interesting and lively as a scheme full of more obvious contrasts . |
| 25 | Admitting that to someone as detached and uninterested as the man standing in front of the fireplace was going to take all the courage she had … |
| 26 | The barn was as high and big as a huge hall , an earthen floor strewn with finely scattered straw . |
| 27 | He was as rigid and unyielding as the rugby-tackling machine at school . |
| 28 | Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind . |
| 29 | His reply was as light and harmless as a butterfly . |
| 30 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |