Example sentences of "[adj] as an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as glossy as an aubergine , |
| 2 | ( For the same reason , French as an option within the Postgraduate Certificate continued to recruit well throughout the seventies ) . |
| 3 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 4 | No hedges , and peas as high as an elephant 's eye . ’ |
| 5 | As high as an elephant 's eye ? |
| 6 | And the palm 's high as an elephant 's eye and everything 's growing right up to the sky . |
| 7 | In his gripping TV drama about Anthony Blunt : ‘ A Question of Attribution ’ he described the painting thus : ‘ The apostles , oblivious to all considerations but those of perspective , are fast asleep on ground as bare and brown as an end of the season goal mouth , this sleep signifying indifference . |
| 8 | An hour and there was a speck of yellow on the horizon as tiny as an aphid . |
| 9 | The other friend , who also decided to become a lawyer , was as straight as an arrow in flight , and in total contrast , was very conventional in his approach to life . |
| 10 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 11 | Her mouth dived at him , swift as an eagle . |
| 12 | The spittle-bug or frog-hopper is equally as soft as an aphid , but three or four times the size . |
| 13 | I 'm still as randy as an adolescent |
| 14 | She had doubts , in fact , that he would even get involved in anything as routine as an affair ! |
| 15 | It was as featureless as an egg . |
| 16 | ‘ In Denmark we say that aquavit is strong as a Viking , fiery as a lover , cold as an iceberg and fresh as a virgin . |
| 17 | Why wo n't he just admit he 's as bald as an egg ? |
| 18 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 19 | Blain 's very personal History of the Spitalfields Trust is as gripping as an adventure yarn . |
| 20 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 21 | ‘ He saves you from a beating with remarkable ease and skill , yet you remain as blind and dull-witted as an earthworm . |
| 22 | At fifty-five his stomach was as flat as an ironing board . |
| 23 | One of the perplexities about the interpretation of quantum mechanics is what , if any , meaning it attaches to the reality of something as protean as an electron . |
| 24 | It was as great as an army , they said , and Rime Giants walked with it like shepherds . |
| 25 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
| 26 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 27 | Now , Eleanor Thorne was eighty-nine years old , and her conversation was erratic , but Dorothea still sat with her , and for the odd fifteen or twenty minutes , and sometimes as long as an hour , they would talk , as they had always done and the present world swung temporarily into focus for the old lady , and she held on to it , like a crystal ball , firmly in her hand . |
| 28 | Kent urged the use of the single remedy chosen on the totality of the patient 's symptoms and not repeated as long as an improvement was maintained . |
| 29 | As long as an MP declares he or she is on the take these payments somehow are deemed acceptable . |
| 30 | It was about as long as an arm . |