Example sentences of "an [noun sg] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his bedroom Raymond is torturing his electric guitar , which is plugged into an amplifier as big as an upended coffin , grinning fiendishly as he produces howls and wails of feedback . |
| 2 | All who have given thought to the matter agree that an apparatus as complex as the human eye could not possibly come into existence through single-step selection . |
| 3 | Perhaps an organism as complex as a man could never be wholly impervious to the ravages of time . |
| 4 | An enterprise as vast as the education service is bound to turn up horror stories daily . |
| 5 | An organisation as big as the police has to turn to scores of different agencies . |
| 6 | One calculation , offered by opponents of Darwin 's theory , is based on the improbability of an object as complex as a living organism arising by chance . |
| 7 | An area as vast as the Italian Renaissance , for example , is represented only by a Domenico Campagnola landscape , a ‘ Christ Blessing ’ from the circle of Lorenzo di Credi , a Titianesque boating scene , and a Bassano ‘ Presentation of the Virgin ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ An expedition such as this is very good experience for students , ’ Kate added , ‘ Most zoology students do n't get such a great chance to visit an area as remote as the Serrania . ’ |
| 9 | All of this means that in the past year Schnabel has applied paint and might one hope quality thought time ? to an area as big as a standard tennis court with 400 square feet left over . |
| 10 | But some villagers believe the National Trust 's developement plans are blatant commercialism … covering an area as big as the village itself … |
| 11 | Henry sent envoy after envoy to Richard in the hope of calling him back to his side , but not even when he used an ambassador as distinguished as the Archbishop of Canterbury was his son to be persuaded . |
| 12 | His mother had always flaunted her poverty as if it were a virtue , so there had been no reason to believe she owned an asset as substantial as a house . |
| 13 | The Basque house is an idea as much as a building . |
| 14 | In their midst was a lean and hot-eyed man toying with glass and wearing an expression as fierce as a fusitron . |
| 15 | But to tame an animal as awe-inspiring as a wild elephant , to make it work in the forests and to carry man into battle ! |
| 16 | The vaults and walls of the chapel of the Virgin are white-washed , and the Virgin has an apron as blue as a sailor 's collar . |
| 17 | As the title suggests it is an appeal as much as a painting , an appeal for a re-establishment of the link between human beings and the rest of nature . |
| 18 | C.J. Coventry being the other , in 1888–89 ! ) rotates an arm as perpendicular as a spire , and has anything but a stony facade . |
| 19 | The words on the page constitute a lifeless text until the poem is evoked ( literally , ‘ called forth ’ ) by the reader , who is given an autonomy as powerful as the writer 's when she gets deep into a text , using all her mental , emotional and physical experiences — and makes a poem of it : evokes it . |