Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rives had everything , including immense strength , whereas Jones is hugely athletic and can jump as high as a guy six inches taller than himself . |
| 2 | Varying the textures within this sort of monochromatic colour scheme can be just as interesting and lively as a scheme full of more obvious contrasts . |
| 3 | The sounds they produce in their larynx may reach as far up the ultrasonic scale as 200 000 hertz , allowing them to detect objects as tiny as a midget 20 metres away . |
| 4 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 5 | The other is enclosed by a chimney of mud and stones that may stand as much as a foot tall . |
| 6 | I generally prefer hot pineapple desserts , often as simple as a sponge steamed pudding with crushed pineapple in the sponge and much more in the base . |
| 7 | While not as watertight as a Section 50 agreement , planning conditions have been used elsewhere to control phasing . |
| 8 | It 's almost as grand as a chef these days is n't it . |
| 9 | ‘ It began as a sort of rest-station and leave resort , as seasonal and artificial as a seaside fun-fair . |
| 10 | What do we do , you must take away everything that 's in the brackets , so we take away a twenty , so that 's the same as a minus twenty and then we 'll take away a minus one , signs are the same so it 's add one . |
| 11 | It looks like something a navvy might use to dig roads up — thin , hollow metal tube , about as thick as a size 10 knitting needle , with a gimlet-like plunger . |
| 12 | For someone who can give an object as plain and manageable as a book all the symmetry and neatness of a loosely wrapped food blender , the prospect of getting cumbersome gardening tools into a parcel terrifies me . |
| 13 | In fact he was as sharp as a man half his age . |
| 14 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 15 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 16 | After an incision through the skin of as little as a centimetre long , a device known as an ultrasound probe and laser fibres are inserted directly into the centre of the tumour . |