Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sound entered the picture , clear and pure as bird song . |
| 2 | He decided she was as clear and pure as water , against the other girls ' coarseness . |
| 3 | Dawn came , a thin band of light as clear and colourless as water . |
| 4 | — On the leeward side of my island , the water 's often calm and heavy as syrup , the breath of the wind sweet and shallow like a young girl sleeping , aïah ! |
| 5 | The thread which joined them was as light and insubstantial as dandelion seed , and once out of sight of each other , the spell was broken . |
| 6 | He had only seen them in books and wondered how something as light and puffy as steam could pull such heavy carriages . |
| 7 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 8 | In general terms it is suggested that determination by expert is quicker and cheaper than determination by arbitrator . |
| 9 | The first replicators were probably cruder and simpler than DNA . |
| 10 | An underwater world , new and exciting and richer than surface communication . |
| 11 | In the heart of the great metropolitan areas of America the inner cities became as desolate and hopeless as shanty towns . |
| 12 | Only Pericles , of all the speakers in Thucydides , is allowed a speech about anything so detailed and unethereal as war finance , namely at ii . |
| 13 | These were well-bred , impeccably turned-out , and as dim and empty-headed as pumpkin lanterns . |
| 14 | Technically the state of the art seems to be that systems are most efficient , reliable and safe when control is largely automatic but the human operator remains in a monitoring and supervisory role . |
| 15 | The gills were crisp and sharp as paper , and bright with blood . |
| 16 | These became taller and steeper as time passed . |
| 17 | Occasionally a very clean housekeeper , like Mrs Joe Gargery in Great Expectations , may possess ‘ an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself ’ , rather as some people do their religion ; but for the most part both cleanliness and godliness are of the comfortable variety among the working classes . |
| 18 | The life expectancy of a baby born in 1975 is estimated to be 71.9 years if male and 78.6 if female . |
| 19 | What was evident at one level was resentment about being available to be ‘ measured ’ in terms as simple and unindividual as time , where personality and personal input and skill were not considered relevant . |
| 20 | As ale drinkers are swift to confirm , the flavour of bitter is more delicate and complex than lager and more difficult to reproduce . |
| 21 | Ifor Evans , writing a few issues later , goes much further : " if aesthetic criticism is to become a reputable study , as honest and sober as philology , it must develop a method and vocabulary as precise and exacting as those of the physical sciences " , so as to be able " to describe with an almost mathematical rigidity the content of a poetic creation or an aesthetic theory " . |
| 22 | … becomes easy and accurate when computerisation is used . |
| 23 | The penalty for all this housekeeping is that the files generated by the program do tend to get bigger and bigger as time goes on . |
| 24 | As a boy I was always taught to use a sod of turf as a foundation , so that the eggs would remain slightly damp , and to build a snug nest of hay on top of it - and the barn wall was knobbly , draughty and dry as dust . |
| 25 | The extract thus achieved ( α antigen ) was diluted in carbonate-bicarbonate buffer pH 9.5 and used as substrate for ELISA . |
| 26 | The truth is that for a weekly paper in something as effervescent and ethereal as pop , all that we 've done over the last 40 years is not as important as what we do next week . |
| 27 | Hide : the skin of a full grown animal from which a leather is produced that is heavier and tougher than calf . |
| 28 | At the same time , however , labour socialism was more coherent and critical than labourism . |
| 29 | A sighted person can make predictions about the future course of tangible experience — falling over a precipice or hitting a wall — which to a blind man ‘ seem as strange and unaccountable as prophecy doth to others ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's so much more alive and vital than journalism . |