Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always an example of devotion to duty , and as unflinching as a hero in a book . |
| 2 | In the nick of time , fresh as a daisy despite the punishing schedule , he arrives , the gear is set up , and I 'm on . |
| 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 | Conversation at table is as superfluous as a sermon in church ; all is still but for the ping of the latest microwave masterpiece . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | That was clear as a succession of batsmen joined Gooch in the ignominy of having their stumps knocked over . |
| 9 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 10 | ‘ Another told me he had a dream , there was a fountain and it had a name , clear as a bell in his dream : Jouvence . |
| 11 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 12 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 13 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ About as charming as a bout of flu , ’ Alyssia muttered under her breath . |
| 16 | Virgin hopes a day in the cockpit will become as popular as a day at the races for company gatherings . |
| 17 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 18 | You are about as pliable as a lump of granite . |
| 19 | She is as careful as a chemist with her reproaches . |
| 20 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 21 | ‘ Just hanging there from one of the beams , swaying as free as a leaf in the wind . |
| 22 | They were as sportive as a pair of shire horses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As harmful as a mixing of the flows is masturbation . |
| 25 | Kerrison was still standing by the body , rigid as a guard of honour . |
| 26 | It was as lifeless and rigid as a piece of sculpture ; dispelling the illusion of flight . |
| 27 | One , which asserts that to each s ε Z+ there corresponds k(s) ε Z+ such that each positive integer is expressible as a sum of at most k(s) positive integral sth powers , was first proved by Hilbert ( in 1909 ! ) . |
| 28 | You will be as worthless as a piece of dirt on the sole of my shoe . |
| 29 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |
| 30 | This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent . |