Example sentences of "[adj] as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His smile was as smooth and glossy as patent leather . |
| 2 | He joined the Dunhill group in 1972 as retail controller and , in 1974 , was appointed to the Board of Directors . |
| 3 | He wore a plain white shirt as fresh as new snow tiny gold cufflinks and a polka-dot tie . |
| 4 | as at present there are three 2.5 litre turbo diesel engines in use — the VM in the Range Rover , the 200 TDi in the Discovery and the 2.5 in the Defender — or it may be that the Land Rover unit is not as reliable as other Land Rovers have been and Land Rover Ltd have realised this . ? |
| 5 | Flowing straight across the rocks from the slowly melting snow , the water seemed as cold and as perfectly clear as glacial ice . |
| 6 | Chablis , pale as a northern sunrise , clear as Danish crystal . |
| 7 | One evening the stars came out and the whole sky shone as clear as polished jet . |
| 8 | So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’ |
| 9 | It was a puzzle , really , how he had ever risen as high as assistant bank manager , although there were rumours that his immediate superior , Mr Quigley , had been confined to a lunatic asylum after claiming that aliens were about to take over South-West London . |
| 10 | they can jump as high as roast pig ! |
| 11 | Private nursing homes have higher levels of frailty than residential homes but not usually as high as long-stay hospital care . |
| 12 | ‘ It has already been agreed that the company will be as generous as British law allows , ’ Muldoon said reassuringly . |
| 13 | Sylvestre Nsanzimana , the Justice Minister , was appointed on Oct. 12 as Prime Minister , a post created under the Constitution introduced in June . |
| 14 | The appointment of Karoui as Prime Minister in September 1989 ( see p. 36905 ) was intended in part to accelerate the economic reforms which his predecessor , Baccouche , fearing the political and social risks of further austerity measures , had been reluctant to implement . |
| 15 | If Guillory hollered his blues , Renbourn confided his , looking as solidly English as roast beef and sounding wistful and worldly-wise , his playing strolling along affably until one suddenly realised that — as in an old Booker T number — things were really starting to shift with indecent ease . |
| 16 | Nor is the law as self-contained as social security law ; many employment cases require a command of principles of contract law . |
| 17 | His period of power from 1917 — 22 as prime minister of the coalition Liberal and Conservative government showed that the limits of economic and social radicalism were constrained by the realities of contemporary politics . |
| 18 | Seen in this perspective , the claims already have political and ideological significance — they are not as neutral or detached as internal presentation of the argument would appear to suggest . |
| 19 | almost as drunkening as hot tar |
| 20 | This interpretation was already being undermined in the 1830s as new evidence showed that the geographical provinces did indeed extend some way back into the past . |
| 21 | Decided on 300 as optimum print run for notes to go in Green Box . |
| 22 | As I looked down a tube as empty as Outer Space , I pushed away from my board and dove for the bottom . |
| 23 | The way in which fear can control people 's minds and actions is a process as old as human experience . |
| 24 | Unity of oppositions ( Zamora , Azana , Cabellero — UGT ) , lid off after Primo 12.4.1931 Monarchy removed ( 14th , Alfonso XIII abdicates = 1st institution to go ) Sp. without a general will , next as old as monarchy-church disunity , royalists , RCs , business . |
| 25 | When I was as old as Lili Syl would be an old , old man , but I did n't say that . |
| 26 | It is after all , an entity which gives house room to people as different as Chilean gaucho and Japanese silk farmer , Californian software writer and Australian brewer , Tongan noble and Panamanian politician ; it encompasses men and ideas more disparate and discordant than any to be found within the borders of any other physical entity on the planet . |
| 27 | The Policy Advisory Committee expressed the view that ‘ some indecent acts other than sexual intercourse , especially if repeated over any length of time , can perhaps be as harmful as sexual intercourse , and that they represent just as much an abuse of the familial relationship as acts of sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 28 | Although it is obviously hoped that these accounts will be interesting as economic history , whatever they reveal about the working and role of government may also be relevant and applicable today . |
| 29 | His long , lean , lugubrious face was dry and rigid as carved teak , and his eyes , sunken between veined lids and deep in cavernous hollows of bone , looked like roundels of cloudy glass with no light behind them . |
| 30 | He was nearly completely bald , brown as old leather , short and spare , a man whose age was impossible to tell : perhaps sixty , perhaps seventy ; dressed in a navy-blue shirt , knee-length shorts , and a pair of salt-stained gym shoes . |