Example sentences of "[pron] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I as flat as a pancake until I had her ! |
| 2 | Someone as important as a SenFed Emissary creeping around in secret . |
| 3 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 4 | I was thrilled that someone as important as the Archbishop of Canterbury had taken the time to call me , although I could n't help but think it odd that an Archbishop was now leaving messages on the same answering machine as my mum . |
| 5 | Your embrace is an expression of a need that unites you and her as much as the sex act itself . |
| 6 | Fortnightly [ Review ] hashed up ’ ; the third was a minister who ‘ dresses himself as much as a Church … parson as possible , as much as possible copies the ritual of the Establishment , and poses almost as a full-blown priest ’ . |
| 7 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |
| 8 | He scrubbed himself as clean as a Viking before a battle and pulled his large white linen robe around his undried nakedness , relishing the lap of texture on wet skin . |
| 9 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 10 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
| 11 | Occasionally , there are other setbacks , though none as spectacular as the mess he got himself into during 1989 . |
| 12 | And she as pretty as a picture with roses in her cheeks and the green eyes of a fairy . ’ |
| 13 | True to form , Orwell in his notes on Waugh disapprovingly named snobbery and Catholicism as the two driving forces of the novel , and as a secular radical he must have felt obliged to reprobate the one as much as the other . |
| 14 | The altered plans , the disappointed hopes , everything as fluid as the weather , as prevarication and new ideas alternately predominate . |
| 15 | They are nevertheless couched in the rhetoric of democracy : they invoke the people and the people 's will as what legitimates the regime , or the policy or the action — which may even be something as arbitrary as a coup d'etat . |
| 16 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 17 | Still , a person would be a fool to go after something as dangerous as a wounded wolf armed only with sympathy . |
| 18 | Perhaps by something as ordinary as a British Telecom radio-pager . |
| 19 | They were still on the outskirts of the city centre itself and Donna wondered what something as strange as a waxworks was doing so far from the city centre , even what it was doing in a place like Portsmouth . |
| 20 | Something as small as a brisk fifteen-minute walk each day can make a big difference to health . |
| 21 | A kestrel 's prey might be something as small as a beetle , and as they tend to hover twenty or thirty feet above the ground , their eyesight and the accuracy of their dive are both awe-inspiring . |
| 22 | Something as simple as a mug can turn a handful of pansies into a vivid display . |
| 23 | Take something as simple as a backdrop . |
| 24 | Children often bring a new toy or special gift they have received to show their teacher and friends , and this may become the basis for a collection , as may something as simple as a pretty sweet wrapper or even an old shoe . |
| 25 | Research shows that something as simple as a bowl of cornflakes can improve moods dramatically , one researcher saying that the dose of carbohydrate acted on women like a tranquilliser . |
| 26 | We would like you to join us for dinner , meet our friends , enjoy a glass of wine or two over something as simple as a plate of pasta , or as extravagant as a six course meal . |
| 27 | In this instance , when dealing with something as simple as the digestive system , the lesion method gave a false picture of the role of a particular component . |
| 28 | But of course any God capable of intelligently designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organized as that machine itself . |
| 29 | ‘ Something as curious as the monarchy wo n't survive unless you take account of people 's attitudes , ’ the Prince told an interviewer in 1982 , in a remark which gives some clue to the task he set himself . |
| 30 | The current Prince of Wales has been quoted as saying that ‘ something as curious as the monarchy wo n't survive unless you take account of people 's attitudes … after all , if people do n't want it , they wo n't have it ’ ( quoted in Rose , 1985 : 75 ) . |