Example sentences of "are as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's nice to know that junk food does n't just put weight on , you know on , on everybody else , I do n't know , you eat junk food , and there you are as skinny as a rake , it 's not on sometimes , but there you are . |
| 2 | I did n't mind using the gears to achieve this , because clutch and gear change are as slick as a car 's — ladies take note . |
| 3 | Any report on coverage should also include radio and TV , and here tapes and transcripts are as useful as a time assessment in showing the quality of the coverage . |
| 4 | Both powers in practice are as useful as a parachute in a space ship — reassuring but not very practical . |
| 5 | And what a despicable set of values — rendered all the more offensive by the revelations from Wall Street , London , Tokyo and Dublin , that the mandarins , gurus and executors of capitalism are as trustworthy as a fox guarding a chicken coop . |
| 6 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 7 | You are as bad as a murderer ! ’ |
| 8 | One would be the version to be found in the published research papers , those strange constrained pieces of writing whose conventions are as rigid as a sonnet , whose scientific account is always a set of clearly designed , unambiguously conducted and conclusive observations , building from earlier data and , in their final paragraphs , pointing the way to future experiments ( ‘ more research is needed to … ’ ) . |
| 9 | Some of them are frail physically but are as bright as a button in their minds . |