Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this Minton had not been altogether convinced by Freud 's painting , which he had tended to regard as cranky and a bit naïive . |
| 2 | The Bishop of Greathaven was as stately as a ship heaving landward . |
| 3 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |
| 4 | The house was not large , but built of stone , with a squat tower as solid as a castle keep . |
| 5 | It is as old as a hat pasted on a young man 's head in a mid-Victorian family album . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's a clever man , ’ continued Ipuky ; ‘ and as devious as a politician needs to be . |
| 7 | She had been as light as a feather to carry and her small hands were as cold as ice . |
| 8 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 9 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
| 10 | It is to be as visible as a city built upon a hill . |
| 11 | All this may be for the locals , but in Cologne you 'll find the welcome extended to visitors is as warm as a schnapps downed in one . |
| 12 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 13 | It was as blank as a stone worn by aeons of tides on the seashore . |
| 14 | The trouble was that it seemed as likely as a lion apologising to a gazelle . |
| 15 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 16 | She was as tense as a cat stalking a bird . |
| 17 | I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house . |
| 18 | I felt that my life fitted me as ill as a garment designed for somebody else . |
| 19 | You do not even need anything as obvious as a party to start you on this slippery slope . |
| 20 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 21 | When the corpse floated past , it was as unremarkable as a branch drifting in the water , and once we had passed it , it stayed bobbing in the water as if tied to our stern . |
| 22 | He looks as innocent as a lamb standing before me . |
| 23 | It replaced the previous categories of handicap with the concept of special educational needs , defined as existing where a child has significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age , or has a disability that prevents or hinders him or her from using the educational facilities normally available . |
| 24 | Common fantasy that a spell on the dole is the change that 's as good as a rest assumes that the pastimes of the poor are the weekend pleasures of the employed — drinking , fishing , playing with cars , playing pool , playing bingo , going to the cinema . |
| 25 | It was as good as a ballet to watch Finn eat but Francie mopped gravy with bread and chewed bones from his fingers . |
| 26 | Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself . |
| 27 | Sarah stayed outside a few minutes longer , her spirits lifting wondrously , and she felt as happy as a robin singing among the branches of the oak tree . |
| 28 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 29 | All in all , Bobby Robson must have found it about as fruitful as a day trying to get in touch with Brian Clough . |
| 30 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |