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Example sentences of "and as [adj] [conj] 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	‘ There 's no danger , ’ he translated , his eyes on the soothsayer 's hands , ‘ but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle . ’
4	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 .
5	She was beautiful , and as proud as a queen .
6	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 .
7	Ezra had neither toughness nor elasticity : he was as rigidly intelligent as a Plymouth brother ; and as vulnerable as a sea-anemone .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	She felt small , and as frail as a bird .
12	Tall , and as strong as a lion .
13	Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox .
14	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 .
15	His profile looked as ancient as a Red Indian 's and as young as a street-child 's .
16	Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail .
17	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 .
18	But they are heavy , and as fragile as a Centurion tank .
19	Budget software was fully covered , with great screenshots and as much as a page per game !
20	It was all enormously enjoyable and satisfying and as good as a week-end break .
21	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 .
22	The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch .
23	His face was as round and as red as an autumn apple .
24	‘ He 's a clever man , ’ continued Ipuky ; ‘ and as devious as a politician needs to be .
25	Crazed like a pavement and as bald as a chicken , his head stared back at him .
26	It grows to a metre and a half in length and as thick as a man 's arm .
27	He was built like a basketball player ; tall and as thin as a stick insect .
28	‘ But Christ 's teaching , Sir John , in certain parts and over certain hearts , lies as thin and as loose as a spider 's web . ’
29	He was as free and as single as a bird , as he made sure to tell her , and they clearly got along well .
30	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 ’ .