Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His breath smelt as rich as a wine press . |
| 2 | ‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’ |
| 3 | As inviting as a mountain pond faithfully reflecting the message of the sky . ’ |
| 4 | But in front of its biggest audience — the match is a 7,100 sell-out — it will look about as inviting as the Addams Family to Ardiles . |
| 5 | Labour 's local government spokesman , David Blunkett , has warned that the council tax is already showing signs of becoming as controversial as the poll tax . |
| 6 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 7 | The MP for Camborne and Falmouth , formerly a god at running in a circle for 800 metres , is not proving as supportive as the St Agnes surfers had hoped . |
| 8 | His recruitment of John Sculley from Pepsi to Apple was a headhunting coup as historic as the ITT job of 1959 . |
| 9 | You have an open face , Nick , and you smile too easily , and you 're much too honest , and you really ca n't resist helping people ; and frankly , you 're about as subtle as a Mack truck . |
| 10 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 11 | as tall as a palm tree and perfectly black [ with ] one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead . |
| 12 | Bodo stood up , as solid as a brick wall . |
| 13 | There seemed no real stamp of his personality anywhere , and it was very nearly as impersonal as a hotel room . |
| 14 | It may not be as slick as the rock video stuff , but it 's men behind the cameras and men who control the business . |
| 15 | IT is one of the quieter moments in a campaign as raucous as a New York gridlock . |
| 16 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 17 | And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn . |
| 18 | ‘ I think we are at least as strong as the Oxford crew physically and we have more experience , though the ages of the crews are almost identical . |
| 19 | ‘ These dogs are not as strong as the pit bull terrier but they have immense strength all the same . |
| 20 | The roof , however , was only six years old and a structural analysis subsequently carried out by a structural engineer showed that not only was it impossible for that roof to slip , but furthermore it was twice as strong as the Building Regulations required . |
| 21 | She had always been as strong as the lioness Candy would insist on comparing her to . |
| 22 | This obviously makes explicit what is generally true of performance indicators : that they are not usually generated from a systematic record ( and when they are , the system is not as reliable as a bookkeeping system can be ) . |
| 23 | This approach is less accurate because the cattle returns are not as reliable as the census figures , but it is valuable because the presence of a large urban population can mask a high rate of cattle theft in the rural parts of a region . |
| 24 | I 've suggested the same myself but , compared to Bob Fitzsimmons , big Lennox is as British as a bacon sandwich . |
| 25 | She was as fearless as the Wooldridge boys who involved her in all their mischief , but sometimes Anna would stand and stare , as if she was seeing things that others could n't see . |
| 26 | And the sea was , it was as calm as the mill pond . |
| 27 | If the object of our faith were as elusive as the Loch Ness monster or as inconsequential as whether to have a third cup of afternoon tea , then doubt makes little difference . |
| 28 | Mondano was as deserted as a ghost town , wrapped in the silence of its siesta . |
| 29 | Soon the cluster of buildings would be as deserted as the plague village they had left on the moor 's edge . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're as transparent as a plastic bag , ’ said Cassie , laughing at her . |