Example sentences of "as [adj] as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ruth was as agile as a dolphin in the water and she was away from him before he had a chance to stop her . |
| 5 | Now he 's got it down to as little as a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The continual passage from one to the other was initially as refreshing as a succession of hot and cold showers , and ultimately as enervating . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lately he 's been as touchy as a bitch on heat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water . |
| 15 | ‘ I shall be as tall as a house in a minute , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Applications should be made as early as possible as a decision from HCIMA is normally required prior to enrolling on a programme of studies . |
| 17 | Indeed , extra-curricular activity includes attracting as much media attention as possible as a member of Act-Up , the New York activists whose purpose is to elevate Aids to the top of government priorities . |
| 18 | Our hotel , the Atlantico , overlooked the harbour , and that evening we watched a local single-engined plane repeatedly flying over the harbour as low as a couple of hundred feet above the cranes . |
| 19 | The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward . |
| 20 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
| 21 | Pete did n't know whether to duck or run , and the choice was fairly academic anyway , as for the moment his body seemed to be about as responsive as a sack of rocks . |
| 22 | She is as careful as a chemist with her reproaches . |
| 23 | Always an example of devotion to duty , and as unflinching as a hero in a book . |
| 24 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 25 | ‘ Just hanging there from one of the beams , swaying as free as a leaf in the wind . |
| 26 | Whichever room you choose , you can make it feel as fresh as a coat of fresh paint — with a coat of paint . |
| 27 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |
| 28 | ‘ About as charming as a bout of flu , ’ Alyssia muttered under her breath . |
| 29 | As harmful as a mixing of the flows is masturbation . |
| 30 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |