Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us . |
| 2 | ‘ You grow quite professional as a landlady . |
| 3 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
| 4 | He proved himself to be thoroughly professional as a railwayman and ruthless as a manager . |
| 5 | Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department . |
| 6 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 7 | Perhaps underused as a source of prospects , the press is nevertheless important . |
| 8 | Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’ |
| 9 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 10 | Now when I said you were very good at it I said what 's fifty as a fraction of one fifty ? |
| 11 | Shaikh Rashid , born in 1914 , became ruler of Dubai in 1958 and Vice-President of the UAE on its formation in 1971 as a federation of six of the seven Trucial States [ see p. 25010 ] . |
| 12 | Some of the works were presented in 1971 as a sign of solidarity with Allende 's government , the rest were donated after the coup d'état . |
| 13 | Dismissed from the Albertina because of his German nationality , he then worked for the Graphische Sammlung , Munich , until 1971 as a curator and then as director . |
| 14 | He moved to the UK in 1968 following the Russian invasion of Czechoslavkia and joined Bovis in 1971 as a project manager . |
| 15 | Helleborus foetidus leaves and flowers preserve well — and it 's evergreen as a bonus . |
| 16 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 17 | First , medical treatment other than symptom control or management is uncalled-for as a matter of law and , indeed , is inappropriate ; not only is it unethical conduct , but the doctor could also be subject to legal sanction . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's weak as a kitten . |
| 19 | Poor as a church mouse by her standards , and weak as a kitten ! ’ |
| 20 | Exports remained weak as a whole , however , comprising only about 6 per cent of production . |
| 21 | Jim Callaghan 's response was that he ‘ had never in fifty years been so depressed as a trade unionist ’ . |
| 22 | As this blood is responsible for carrying oxygen to the brain , some people are likely to become morose or depressed as a result . |
| 23 | And is it because of them that you 're worried about the future — do you get depressed as a grandparent ? |
| 24 | A decision was taken in 1984 by F.I.S.A. at Pau to create Formula 3000 as a replacement for Formula Two . |
| 25 | Since making his debut against Pakistan in 1978–79 as a 19-year-old , he has never missed a Test through injury , a truly remarkable performance for a fast bowler . |
| 26 | Exsmokers live longer and are healthier as a result of kissing it goodbye . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed the Committee even extended this logic to a position whereby they felt themselves able to justify the decriminalisation of adult homosexual behaviour in private as a form of protection for the young : |
| 28 | His back , broad as a standing stone … |
| 29 | He felt strong as bronze , he encompassed her in a reach broad as a chestnut tree . |
| 30 | Parallel to his attempt to portray Labour as a consensus government , Mr Kinnock sought to turn his confession of ‘ errors of judgment ’ over Europe and unilateralism into virtues in sharp contrast to Tory failure to apologise for ‘ Thatcher mistakes ’ . |