Example sentences of "as [adj] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . " |
| 2 | The problem is to detect as little as a single base pair difference between , say , two 500 base pair fragments . |
| 3 | In the damp haziness , the route seemed sinister , and not as pleasant as the previous day 's walk . |
| 4 | Rachel 's Shabby Chic shops look as inviting as a comfortable living room ( except that yours probably is n't covered in price tags ! ) . |
| 5 | An old woman appeared , in black , a black grey with age , her face as lined as an Indian squaw 's . |
| 6 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 7 | This is at least as controversial as the original finding ; its meaning is not clear , nor is the nature of the difference between the different D2s . |
| 8 | There are few rejections as telling as a sexual rejection . |
| 9 | Larry had gone beetroot-red like the soup , Lee saw , as he sat next to Philippa on the carpet , but Philippa herself was as alert as a newborn bird and was tickling his ankle with a silver-sandalled foot , excited by the nonsense , unafraid of the conflict . |
| 10 | Sir , Apart from the illogicality ( with all due respect to Brough Girling , 8th January ) of Jennings , Tin Tin or Milly Molly Mandy , actually growing up , can one imagine anything more unlikely than Just William becoming anything as prattish as a Tory minister or an estate agent ? |
| 11 | The louder it is , the more distant the object it can detect and the bats produce clicks which , if translated into frequencies that we can hear , would sound as loud as a pneumatic drill . |
| 12 | It is difficult to conceal the suspicion that in Soviet eyes a new technological era is dawning , with consequences for military science as far-reaching as the ballistic missile and nuclear weapon , and the ‘ revolution in military affairs ’ which they unleashed . |
| 13 | Our preference is to have the lines so matched that , when the two handles are held together , the stunt kite soars overhead and is as stable as a single line kite . |
| 14 | Santorini is about as stable as the proverbial blancmange . |
| 15 | He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat , always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him . |
| 16 | Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space . |
| 17 | This , though it is everywhere as various and as changeable as the biographical time which Bakhtin finds in classical Greek literature , can nevertheless still be identified as a distinctive and possibly definitive generic shift . |
| 18 | Gruff and grumpy , sweet and saintly , or as changeable as the British weather , no two dads are alike . |
| 19 | It should be noted that this concept of study skills was still not as broad as the full-blown information skills approach nominated in the proposal document , and was seen as achievable by one of a number of means which the committee considered . |
| 20 | When a butt is ½ as tall as a whole butt |
| 21 | He was as tall as the Great Wall behind her , but with a lean solidity that was every bit as impressive as the policeman 's sheer bulk . |
| 22 | Some of those classified as short-term unemployed may be intermittently unemployed and this may be just as demoralising as a long spell off work . |
| 23 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 24 | Invite as many different spellings as possible as a spoken nonsense word : discuss the suggested spellings , decide which are the most likely , and make lists of real words which fit the pattern , e.g. Games like these demonstrate to children the relationship between sound and symbol which it is fundamental to understand in order to become a competent speller . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , attempts have been made to get as near the truth as possible as the brief account given here indicates . |
| 26 | Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back . |
| 27 | It was again altered to a lower rate about 1921 , but by no means as low as the original fare , in this instance from 2/3d to 4/4½ ( quite a big jump ) and finally down to 4/- ( today 20p ) . |
| 28 | If the surface of thick glass can be got smooth and kept smooth it will be just as strong as a thin fibre . |
| 29 | She was as strong as a little horse . |
| 30 | The empirical evidence does suggest that there is a definite relationship between the demand for money and the interest rate on near-money substitutes , but it is not as strong as the Keynesian theory suggests . |