Example sentences of "as [adj] as a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 2 | I did n't mind using the gears to achieve this , because clutch and gear change are as slick as a car 's — ladies take note . |
| 3 | Edward Cuff from Yeovil sent a most interesting collection of photographs as diverse as a Bleriot-type being flown by Gustav Hamel near Canterbury , and a selection of pictures related to the Battle of Britain airfield at Warmwell whose correct name was Woodsford . |
| 4 | A knight broke through on his way to a local joust or tournament , his steel codpiece carved as large as a bull 's whilst the helmet which swung from his saddle bow was fashioned in the macabre mask of a hangman . |
| 5 | He was black and gleaming , his outline as smooth as a dolphin 's even down to the hint of rubber . |
| 6 | There she sat , in her familiar party outfit , an eccentric , much-worn , embroidered Chinese garment , her neat , solidly cut , smartly sloping black hair as tidy as a doll 's , looking perhaps faintly Chinese rather than Jewish , diminutive as she was , and with those high cheek-bones : and there sat Alix , also by Charles 's standards impoverished , though not by her own , which were more austere . |
| 7 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 8 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 9 | Gran said , ‘ She had a lovely face , and hair as fair as a baby 's , long enough to sit on . |
| 10 | His eyes were as golden as a hawk 's , but so still and intent they awed her faintly . |
| 11 | This metaphor is developed in the second last line to describe the voice of the tramp as ‘ as sweet as a bird 's … ’ . |