Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 2 | I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes . |
| 3 | Remember , never move as much as a muscle if the moon is out , and never speak unless it 's to answer a question put by me . ’ |
| 4 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 5 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 6 | But , she was as nervous as a kitten because we were , we were in a one of these Canadian type er |
| 7 | I 'll be as bald as a coot if you go on like that . |
| 8 | No , I as flat as a pancake until I had her ! |
| 9 | In terms of an apparently satisfactory way of explaining what goes on we are far less confident than in the good old days of AIDA — but at least we know that AIDA was as inadequate as a theory as her operatic namesake was ill-starred in love . |
| 10 | But erm I , I think a midwife , a good midwife , is every bit as good as a doctor because she 's doing it all the time . |
| 11 | Brett weighed a mere 1lb 5oz and was as short as a watchstrap when he was born seventeen weeks early . |
| 12 | Besides none of us ever knew the whole story , even though it was as plain as a pikestaff when you came to think about it . |
| 13 | Although your husband 's penis does n't have a bone in it ( at least not unless he 's a badger or something ) , it does become almost as stiff as a bone when he 's excited . |
| 14 | Her hands had been as steady as a rock until David mentioned Donna 's birth , and Juliet 's on the same day , and Thorn House — |
| 15 | My face was as red as a tomato as I was shown to my seat . |