Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whichever room you choose , you can make it feel as fresh as a coat of fresh paint — with a coat of paint . |
| 2 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That was clear as a succession of batsmen joined Gooch in the ignominy of having their stumps knocked over . |
| 6 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ About as charming as a bout of flu , ’ Alyssia muttered under her breath . |
| 9 | You are about as pliable as a lump of granite . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As harmful as a mixing of the flows is masturbation . |
| 12 | Kerrison was still standing by the body , rigid as a guard of honour . |
| 13 | It was as lifeless and rigid as a piece of sculpture ; dispelling the illusion of flight . |
| 14 | 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 ! ) . |
| 15 | You will be as worthless as a piece of dirt on the sole of my shoe . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 19 | It is come , I know not how , to be taken for granted , by many persons , that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is , now at length , discovered to be fictitious . |
| 20 | She never dropped out of University and she always worked ( when no-one was looking ) , but she never really felt a part of the University itself , so much as a part of Bristol the city . |
| 21 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 22 | But by not so much as a flicker of an eyebrow did he betray his emotions . |
| 23 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 24 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 25 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 26 | ‘ Not so much as a stick of rock . ’ |
| 27 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 28 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 29 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 30 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |