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 .
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