Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 2 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 3 | However it was held that the benefit from the 1986 contract was not outstanding as the customer had chosen to place earlier contracts worth $75 million for non-patented display units despite being fully aware of the invention 's existence and capabilities . |
| 4 | This was not unreasonable as the changing room was the usual scrum of bodies with shirts , ties and the occasional boot flying through the air . |
| 5 | A Punjabi speaking volunteer was suggested to sit in , but this was not acceptable as the family did not want to commit themselves to a regular time for the volunteer to call . |
| 6 | Eight years later there was more name-swapping as the group became British Leyland and then , in 1978 , BL . |
| 7 | That 's absolute crap , he was so he was as sober as the day comes I can tell you and it was just a joke . |
| 8 | was as drunk as the lord last night |
| 9 | The mixture of incomprehensible lunacy and clear truth was as surreal as the life she was living ; treading a thin line between the sharks in her room and Bryony , waiting for those times of distant peace , when she could watch the moving clouds through her window in simple tranquillity ; descending nightly into drugged black sleep , and carefully , anxiously behaving herself as inconspicuously as possible in front of the inhabitants of the house . |
| 10 | Her mind was as hot as the mustard , words wanting to spill out , dirty the front of a yellow piqué dress . |
| 11 | She had done sterling service already , and was as inert as a ship can well be — which is actually , as we have already speculated , not quite inert after all . |
| 12 | At fifty-five his stomach was as flat as an ironing board . |
| 13 | The melancholy was as asphyxiating as the soundtrack offence with its cacophony of four-letter obscenities . |
| 14 | That was as far as the conversation went , for I decided to end it by pushing open the screen door . |
| 15 | It seemed this was as far as the couple had thought ; as though that would be it . |
| 16 | The League of Nations and the Danzig Senate exchanged notes of protest , but that was as far as the League pursued the matter . |
| 17 | Lydham Heath was as far as the railway had managed to get on its way to Wales . |
| 18 | The sound was as final as the closing of a coffin lid . |
| 19 | The Chaplain 's face was as round as a moon . |
| 20 | He showed me a little thing , the size of a hazelnut , in the palm of my hand , and it was as round as a ball . |
| 21 | We visited the outhouses , stables , smithies , brewing rooms , barns — slipping and slithering , though Rachel was as sure-footed as a cat . |
| 22 | his fall was as terrible as the fall of Eli . |
| 23 | At their £125,000 detached home at Cleveleys , Lancs , Gladys was as tight-lipped as a ventriloquist about the incident . |
| 24 | He thrust up two fingers in triumph at the driver , an old man who was as indifferent as a waxwork . |
| 25 | The longed-for mistress of his heart was in his arms at last , soft and apparently willing , and if her lovemaking was as fiery as the rest of her , what delights might he not taste ? |
| 26 | In terms of an apparently satisfactory way of explaining what goes on we are far less confident than in the good old days of AIDA — but at least we know that AIDA was as inadequate as a theory as her operatic namesake was ill-starred in love . |
| 27 | When Margaret finally foundered , some hoped that he had gone down with the ship , but here he was as buoyant as the Vicar of Bray . |
| 28 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 29 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 30 | The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward . |