Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . " |
| 2 | The problem is to detect as little as a single base pair difference between , say , two 500 base pair fragments . |
| 3 | Rachel 's Shabby Chic shops look as inviting as a comfortable living room ( except that yours probably is n't covered in price tags ! ) . |
| 4 | An old woman appeared , in black , a black grey with age , her face as lined as an Indian squaw 's . |
| 5 | There are few rejections as telling as a sexual rejection . |
| 6 | Larry had gone beetroot-red like the soup , Lee saw , as he sat next to Philippa on the carpet , but Philippa herself was as alert as a newborn bird and was tickling his ankle with a silver-sandalled foot , excited by the nonsense , unafraid of the conflict . |
| 7 | Sir , Apart from the illogicality ( with all due respect to Brough Girling , 8th January ) of Jennings , Tin Tin or Milly Molly Mandy , actually growing up , can one imagine anything more unlikely than Just William becoming anything as prattish as a Tory minister or an estate agent ? |
| 8 | The louder it is , the more distant the object it can detect and the bats produce clicks which , if translated into frequencies that we can hear , would sound as loud as a pneumatic drill . |
| 9 | Our preference is to have the lines so matched that , when the two handles are held together , the stunt kite soars overhead and is as stable as a single line kite . |
| 10 | He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat , always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him . |
| 11 | When a butt is ½ as tall as a whole butt |
| 12 | Some of those classified as short-term unemployed may be intermittently unemployed and this may be just as demoralising as a long spell off work . |
| 13 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 14 | Invite as many different spellings as possible as a spoken nonsense word : discuss the suggested spellings , decide which are the most likely , and make lists of real words which fit the pattern , e.g. Games like these demonstrate to children the relationship between sound and symbol which it is fundamental to understand in order to become a competent speller . |
| 15 | Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back . |
| 16 | If the surface of thick glass can be got smooth and kept smooth it will be just as strong as a thin fibre . |
| 17 | She was as strong as a little horse . |
| 18 | The main problem with this solution is that a public sector monopoly can be as x-inefficient as a private sector one , and may be more so , as the market sanction of bankruptcy has been removed . |
| 19 | Persons of rank hardly needed anything as manifest as an active involvement in lay preaching on the part of the poor to resent the impropriety of an assertion of spiritual equality . |
| 20 | To my unadapted eyes the scene looked as bleached-out as an over-exposed snapshot . |
| 21 | It 's about as interesting as a financial report from anybody . |
| 22 | You are as high as a 10-storey building . |
| 23 | Aunt Goldie points to a moon-faced infant in a perambulator as high as a royal coach . |
| 24 | Interest rates had risen in recent months as high as an annualized rate of 1,200 per cent as banks struggled to retain their funds , and the move initially froze the savings of thousands of Argentinians and also affected major corporations . |
| 25 | Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men . |
| 26 | The inner flesh was as raw as a recent wound , and clear resin had oozed to the surface , trickled down and set into sticky pink runnels . |
| 27 | His blond stubble was silky and made his mouth as exciting as an adolescent boy 's . |
| 28 | And twice as impossible while an insistent question , as tormenting as any nightmare , began to beat at his brain . |
| 29 | IT 'S difficult to be objective about a match that was as one-sided as a two-headed coin . |
| 30 | A cute crone part can be as wearisome as a cute kid one but Ashcroft held an edge of menace , a tension about how much of Lilian 's mental absence was pretence . |