Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop of Greathaven was as stately as a ship heaving landward . |
| 2 | A relative clause counts as dependent whereas an adjective modifying a noun clearly does not . |
| 3 | Not nearly as good-looking as the man sitting right next to her . |
| 4 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 5 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 6 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
| 7 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 8 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 9 | His mind was as cold as the ice forming on the windscreen . |
| 10 | The trouble was that it seemed as likely as a lion apologising to a gazelle . |
| 11 | She was as tense as a cat stalking a bird . |
| 12 | I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house . |
| 13 | When the corpse floated past , it was as unremarkable as a branch drifting in the water , and once we had passed it , it stayed bobbing in the water as if tied to our stern . |
| 14 | He looks as innocent as a lamb standing before me . |
| 15 | But of course any God capable of intelligently designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organized as that machine itself . |
| 16 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the proceedings of the international menopause conference which point out that the number of deaths of women in the post-50 age group from heart attack and particularly stroke is twice as great as the number dying from osteoporosis and 10 times as great as the number of deaths from breast cancer ? |
| 17 | Well it 's only as good as the person putting it in . |
| 18 | Sarah stayed outside a few minutes longer , her spirits lifting wondrously , and she felt as happy as a robin singing among the branches of the oak tree . |
| 19 | But the rejoicing and the laughter which followed the tears were of equal importance , because they powered the erotic joy that was as important as the water falling from the sky . |
| 20 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 21 | All in all , Bobby Robson must have found it about as fruitful as a day trying to get in touch with Brian Clough . |
| 22 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |
| 23 | Unmoving , he seemed part of the very landscape he stood in , his eyes deep and clear as the blue sea before him , his shoulder-length hair just as golden as the sun burning far above in an azure sky . |
| 24 | as weightless as a soul making |
| 25 | And what a despicable set of values — rendered all the more offensive by the revelations from Wall Street , London , Tokyo and Dublin , that the mandarins , gurus and executors of capitalism are as trustworthy as a fox guarding a chicken coop . |
| 26 | When the sun played on her golden hair it was as bright as the copper warming pan which Sarah put between the sheets on winter nights . |