Example sentences of "are [prep] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 2 | In this real world context , which will powerfully affect Britain , Mr Smith 's ‘ luvvie ’ proposals are about as useful as a powder puff to a man with chronic heart disease . |
| 3 | For emotional resonance , flags are about as potent as a quadrilateral of cloth can be . |
| 4 | These arteries are about as wide as a drinking straw and they can all too easily become partially blocked with deposits of atheroma , a pasty mixture of cholesterol and cells . |
| 5 | It is the Alpine 's bizarre , clap-hands windscreen wipers which would do Heath Robinson proud with the unnecessary complexity of their design and engineering and , in the matter of clearing rain , are about as effective as a Government promise to bring more civil service jobs to Scotland . |
| 6 | His outbursts of bilious misogyny are about as shocking as a small boy shouting ‘ Bum ! ’ |
| 7 | For , although the methods by which different animal species obtain their food are about as diverse as the number of animal species , there are certain broad patterns to be seen . |
| 8 | The name is not well chosen — intelibots are about as intelligent as the players they serve . |
| 9 | They are about as cheerful as the place they run to . |
| 10 | They are about as big as a potato . |
| 11 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |
| 12 | ‘ Those meetings are about as bearable as a boil in the wrong place — though this one should be more interesting than most . |
| 13 | You are about as pliable as a lump of granite . |