Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Gambon relishes the Mafia boss routine and the scene where he gives Luciano his famous scar is somewhat offputting — but not as stomach-turning as the sight of a mad dog rival of Lucky 's biting off a hoodlum 's nose , then cutting out another 's tongue . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | PENNED-IN by steel barriers between a noisy crowd of gay liberationists and the lonely emissary of the oppressed African Dinkas , few of the street-corner causes besieging this week 's conference seem as hopeless as the campaign for Labour to organise in Ulster . |
4 | Plus they rely far too heavily on Chad Gracey 's bionic drumming to get them noticed , the tinny snare effect soon becoming as annoying as a catfight underneath your window at 3.00am . |
5 | The haul up from there to the top of the highest bank was several hundred feet of deep heather , pollen-dusty and honey-scented , but as friendly as a hedgehog for a flea . |
6 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
7 | Ruth was as agile as a dolphin in the water and she was away from him before he had a chance to stop her . |
8 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
9 | Now he 's got it down to as little as a couple of weeks . |
10 | EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay . |
11 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
12 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
13 | A 2.25 cu m ( 500 gallon ) cesspool could fill up in as little as a week with a family of four living in the house ; a 18 cu m cesspool would last for at least a month and is the minimum size recommended . |
14 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
15 | As little as an hour of your time would be appreciated . |
16 | The continual passage from one to the other was initially as refreshing as a succession of hot and cold showers , and ultimately as enervating . |
17 | And what makes me admit that I 'm as hapless as the biography to the left suggests ? |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Abstracts are intended to be as concise as the nature of a particular topic being dealt with allows and not to be detailed rule-books dealing with every conceivable circumstance . ’ |
20 | They are not as professional as the force in Paris or London . |
21 | What good is a mason whose arm — mark this ! — whose arm is shrivelled to nothing — as thin as a chicken 's neck it was — as weak as the dribble from a baby 's chin . |
22 | It is as shameful as the use of drugs in sport . |
23 | Lately he 's been as touchy as a bitch on heat . |
24 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
25 | ‘ He 's as upset as the rest of us , naturally . ’ |
26 | If it sticks — a big if , considering the Israeli government 's one-vote majority and Arafat 's internal power struggle — the prospect of peace in the Middle East is as momentous as the collapse of Soviet Communism . |
27 | The longed-for mistress of his heart was in his arms at last , soft and apparently willing , and if her lovemaking was as fiery as the rest of her , what delights might he not taste ? |
28 | It is always advisable to choose names which are as descriptive as the number of characters will allow , avoiding the ever popular INPUT , OUTPUT and TEST . |
29 | It should be as descriptive as the number of characters used will allow . |
30 | A revolution in information technology is taking place which will have effects on society , certainly as far-reaching as the impact of the industrial revolution , and we must be prepared for the changes . |