Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first Christians to claim this as the heart of their faith was a scandal of the first order . |
| 2 | This seemed if anything as purposeful as the gathering of the clan on the previous night . |
| 3 | Whichever room you choose , you can make it feel as fresh as a coat of fresh paint — with a coat of paint . |
| 4 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |
| 5 | Judging from his recent contributions to the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh and to Robert Storr 's ‘ Dislocations ’ for MOMA in New York , Bruce Nauman is working in top gear and his new wax or metal sculptures and his video installations look as sharp and fresh as the art of any of his contemporaries . |
| 6 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 7 | Some regard what they do simply as a form of legitimate adult play , while others take it far more seriously and see themselves as going beyond present human limitations , journeying into a new galaxy of knowledge in a way which they find at least as exciting as the exploration of deep space . |
| 8 | It was a scrappy contest but nevertheless exciting as the news of the England disaster filtered through . |
| 9 | He had played classical music on the stereo , which Boy had assured him he liked , and it was true ; Boy had never heard music like this before and he thought it was wonderful , a sound as big , and as warm , and as expensive as the car ; a sound as exciting as the sensation of being driven through the night by a stranger . |
| 10 | The Necromundans glanced curiously at that blind , fey figure of a man who was as alabastine as the idol of the primarch — his flesh almost translucent — yet who could speak with his mind from star to star , and could even report directly to the Emperor , should a sufficiently momentous situation arise . |
| 11 | He had it then , as clear as a map of a well-charted route unfolded on the captain 's table , what lay in store for him and for the settlement ; though the islanders had not burned wet leaves and swelled white smoke into a pillar of cloud to issue a warning , the signal might as well have been as clear . |
| 12 | That was clear as a succession of batsmen joined Gooch in the ignominy of having their stumps knocked over . |
| 13 | Great towering clouds were massing behind Big Allen but to the west the sky was as clear as the inside of a mother-of-pearl-lined shell , of a pale , tender , pink-stained azure . |
| 14 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 15 | Thus the Newsom Report , which examined secondary schooling for children of average or less than average ability , concluded that the proportion of schools in slum areas which were seriously inadequate was twice as high as the proportion of all schools in the sample . |
| 16 | Durance was weary of both of them but the price of their silence was as high as the price of Sabine Jourdain 's . |
| 17 | And high above , at the end of the curve , the steep hillsides rose as high as the rim of the dormant volcano on High Island . |
| 18 | Pete did n't know whether to duck or run , and the choice was fairly academic anyway , as for the moment his body seemed to be about as responsive as a sack of rocks . |
| 19 | ‘ About as charming as a bout of flu , ’ Alyssia muttered under her breath . |
| 20 | Worst of all , the mosquitoes returned in force and succeeded in penetrating our defences in spite of Djungel Olja , a recommended Swedish preparation , and ‘ mosquito coils ’ which burnt like joss sticks with a smell almost as unpleasant as the bite of the insects . |
| 21 | We now see underlying inflation moving above 4% ( and outside the Government 's new 1% to 4% target range ) through 1993 as the impact of the lower pound feeds through . |
| 22 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |
| 23 | Mr. Dear painted a picture of a poorly funded , undermanned force under great pressure , and a chief constable with his hands tied behind his back by council rules and bureaucracy such that decisions on spending even minute amounts have to be referred to a committee , including items as minute as the installation of a telephone line . |
| 24 | Digital cameras will become more popular as the quality of image improves and the price falls , but it will probably be well into the next century before they become firmly established . |
| 25 | You are about as pliable as a lump of granite . |
| 26 | He found the number eighty-two close to the top of the street , looking just as derelict as the rest of the tenements on the shabby street . |
| 27 | Henry sent envoy after envoy to Richard in the hope of calling him back to his side , but not even when he used an ambassador as distinguished as the Archbishop of Canterbury was his son to be persuaded . |
| 28 | He spun around , dodged another blow from the puzzled guard , and sped back towards the circle , passing on the way the dryads who were pursuing him and leaving them as disorganised as a set of skittles . |
| 29 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 30 | Ageism … is as old as the history of the family … men used family as a way of colonizing women as a class . |