Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 2 | It was about eight inches long , double edged and as sharp as a razor . |
| 3 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 4 | She was beautiful , and as proud as a queen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ezra had neither toughness nor elasticity : he was as rigidly intelligent as a Plymouth brother ; and as vulnerable as a sea-anemone . |
| 7 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 8 | The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator . |
| 9 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
| 10 | She felt small , and as frail as a bird . |
| 11 | Tall , and as strong as a lion . |
| 12 | One moment she could be smiling tenderly as she fed the animals , the next filled with anger and as dangerous as a tiger at bay . |
| 13 | His profile looked as ancient as a Red Indian 's and as young as a street-child 's . |
| 14 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But they are heavy , and as fragile as a Centurion tank . |
| 17 | Budget software was fully covered , with great screenshots and as much as a page per game ! |
| 18 | It was all enormously enjoyable and satisfying and as good as a week-end break . |
| 19 | Even though chronic hepatitis C appears to be an indolent disease in most patients , the observation that at least a fifth develop cirrhosis and as many as a quarter progress to liver failure indicates that chronic hepatitis C is not a benign disease . |
| 20 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's a clever man , ’ continued Ipuky ; ‘ and as devious as a politician needs to be . |
| 22 | Crazed like a pavement and as bald as a chicken , his head stared back at him . |
| 23 | It grows to a metre and a half in length and as thick as a man 's arm . |
| 24 | He was built like a basketball player ; tall and as thin as a stick insect . |
| 25 | ‘ But Christ 's teaching , Sir John , in certain parts and over certain hearts , lies as thin and as loose as a spider 's web . ’ |
| 26 | He was as free and as single as a bird , as he made sure to tell her , and they clearly got along well . |
| 27 | Characteristically , after this burst of bitter humour he added that ‘ it was quite nice ’ even though he found his host ‘ about as intelligent as a mule and as human as a boa-constrictor ’ . |
| 28 | This use of dub is no mere prop either , they play with an edge that 's as sharp and as clean as a surgeon 's scalpel . |
| 29 | The medlab on the IMCV Insider Trading was large , high-tech and as soulless as a plaster saint . |
| 30 | Always an example of devotion to duty , and as unflinching as a hero in a book . |