Example sentences of "[be] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not all professionals subscribe to the view that disabled people are unsuitable as health professionals . |
| 2 | Ideally you need just a little one-to-one tuition , preferably after you have struggled on your own for a bit to discover which bits are clear as daylight and which are clear as mud . |
| 3 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 4 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 5 | However , since they are interspersed with shots of debris from the loch bed they are inadmissible as evidence . |
| 6 | ‘ I am warm as toast , ’ Joan said unsympathetically . |
| 7 | You 're white as death . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Because if you are you 're sure as hell going the right way to getting one ! |
| 9 | ‘ They need grooming , I know , but they 're fat as butter ’ ) — |
| 10 | You know it too , and you 're scared as hell . |
| 11 | ‘ Hello , duckie , so here we are large as life and twice as handsome . |
| 12 | These protrusions are hard as steel ( T 7 , D 8 ) , and striking at them means that any miss is 75% likely to strike the unfortunate in the throne . |
| 13 | ‘ Their ribs are soft as butter . ’ ) |
| 14 | He had heard that the Feds at Lockerbie had been good as gold , working at the pace required , picking up on every small detail provided by the forensic team at Farnborough , where the 747 had been reconstructed . |
| 15 | ‘ And if I do n't earn those few thousand dollars then I am sure as hell not going to sail away with you . |
| 16 | Particularly in rocks of Eocene age the coin-like nummulites are important as rock builders . |
| 17 | It can not be given to many scientists to be outstanding as experimenter , technical innovator and teacher ; Kuypers was unquestionably all of these . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'll be right as rain , pet , ’ said Gloria . |
| 19 | You settle her down now and she 'll be right as rain in the mornin' . |
| 20 | I 'll be right as rain now we 're home . |
| 21 | At first she kept insisting she would be right as rain in the morning , but after the blackbird had heralded in three more mornings , it was clear to both mother and daughter that Martha 's grip on life was weakening . |
| 22 | Sorry to lay this on you , not fair I know as I 'll probably be right as rain by the time you get this . |
| 23 | She 'll be right as rain in a couple of days . |
| 24 | Not all of these subjects , however , may necessarily be acceptable as admission requirements for particular degree courses or particular faculties . |
| 25 | Even the shape and colour of an article have been held to be acceptable as trade marks . |
| 26 | Once it was felt not to be reliable as evidence for Jesus ' own history and teaching , however , most of what the psychological biographies had chiefly depended upon was removed along with it . |
| 27 | I 'm uncomfortable as hell doing comedy , but that 's good , 'cause when I 'm comfy I get complacent , then I get lazy and naff . |
| 28 | In fact , members of this group would not be identifiable as football fans at all outside of the ground . |
| 29 | Firstly , physical laws must be expressible as tensor equations so that they remain valid under transformations to any accelerated frame . |
| 30 | With two forks , pull apart the meat and fat ( which should be soft as butter ) so that the rillettes are shredded rather than in a paste . |