Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His breath smelt as rich as a wine press . |
| 2 | ‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’ |
| 3 | As inviting as a mountain pond faithfully reflecting the message of the sky . ’ |
| 4 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 5 | as tall as a palm tree and perfectly black [ with ] one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead . |
| 6 | Bodo stood up , as solid as a brick wall . |
| 7 | There seemed no real stamp of his personality anywhere , and it was very nearly as impersonal as a hotel room . |
| 8 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 9 | And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn . |
| 10 | This obviously makes explicit what is generally true of performance indicators : that they are not usually generated from a systematic record ( and when they are , the system is not as reliable as a bookkeeping system can be ) . |
| 11 | I 've suggested the same myself but , compared to Bob Fitzsimmons , big Lennox is as British as a bacon sandwich . |
| 12 | Mondano was as deserted as a ghost town , wrapped in the silence of its siesta . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're as transparent as a plastic bag , ’ said Cassie , laughing at her . |
| 14 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 15 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 16 | It 's pretty unlikely that this session will ever see the light of day on Strange Fruit , as the label 's last Wah release ‘ The Mighty Wah ’ proved about as popular as a motorway scheme through Kew Gardens . |
| 17 | The Bingo of the housewife or pensioner certainly has its social value but if the relation-ship is addictive even this can become just as consuming as a Poker school or greyhound race . |
| 18 | Mum , dad and the three children were sitting round the fire , cracking nuts and watching TV and the atmosphere inside was as clear as a spring dawn — not a puff of smoke to be seen . |
| 19 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 20 | ‘ That water … as exciting as a sludge pit in a sewage works . ’ |
| 21 | The dark clouds had become more compact and although it was still only late morning , it was as dark as a gathering twilight . |
| 22 | His sports paper having mysteriously disappeared , the Duty Officer scratched furiously at a vast form , a flush , as ominous as a gathering storm began to show on Frau Nordern 's neck , and then the door of the office opened , the Sergeant came out , and behind him a stocky man in plain clothes , smoking a cigar , and blinking through bloodshot eyes , waved Frau Nordern forward . |
| 23 | Yields on well-let properties , even in the glutted City of London office market , have fallen by as much as a percentage point over the past six months . |
| 24 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 25 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 26 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 27 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business . |
| 29 | And he will require , in order to do that , to be a time traveller into the past as much as a science fiction writer would have to be a time traveller into the future . |
| 30 | Her face was as blank as a porcelain mask . |