Example sentences of "as [adj] as [art] [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 | Labour 's local government spokesman , David Blunkett , has warned that the council tax is already showing signs of becoming as controversial as the poll tax . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | as tall as a palm tree and perfectly black [ with ] one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead . |
| 7 | Bodo stood up , as solid as a brick wall . |
| 8 | There seemed no real stamp of his personality anywhere , and it was very nearly as impersonal as a hotel room . |
| 9 | It may not be as slick as the rock video stuff , but it 's men behind the cameras and men who control the business . |
| 10 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 11 | And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn . |
| 12 | ‘ These dogs are not as strong as the pit bull terrier but they have immense strength all the same . |
| 13 | She had always been as strong as the lioness Candy would insist on comparing her to . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | I 've suggested the same myself but , compared to Bob Fitzsimmons , big Lennox is as British as a bacon sandwich . |
| 16 | And the sea was , it was as calm as the mill pond . |
| 17 | Mondano was as deserted as a ghost town , wrapped in the silence of its siesta . |
| 18 | Soon the cluster of buildings would be as deserted as the plague village they had left on the moor 's edge . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're as transparent as a plastic bag , ’ said Cassie , laughing at her . |
| 20 | The illusionism which conjures a complete and natural ( I would prefer apocalypticnatural ) city out of materials as unpromising as the colour yellow , also yields up Raskolnikov like a natural secretion , and this vouchsafing process encompasses and transcends the resources both of first- and third-person narrative . |
| 21 | He must have reckoned that having a back-up trade was always a handy thing when you 're going into something as risky as the music business . |
| 22 | Government concern about the problem of drink-related offending is as old as the Probation Service . |
| 23 | The use of a supercharger to compress the air and fuel mixture is hardly new : the concept is almost as old as the motor car itself . |
| 24 | The pound 's fall from grace has not been quite as marked as the stock market 's recovery but , for all the Government 's protestations about the need for a firm exchange rate , its decline has been very sharp . |
| 25 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 26 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 27 | I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly . |
| 28 | in fact , in some cases fixed costs can enable the established firm to price as high as the monopoly level yet induce no entry — what Bain called " blockaded entry " ( see Dixit , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Local physician Lia Giraldo da Silva Augusto says the mortality rate of young adults is as high as the infant mortality rate , which is 65 per 1,000 . |
| 30 | 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 . |