Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 2 | Henrietta dived into the pool and her head emerged , neat and glossy as a seal 's . |
| 3 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 4 | The landscape is as simple , naive and charming as a child 's painting . |
| 5 | He looked hurt when she did n't join him , his emotions transparent as a child 's . |
| 6 | A tall and awkward body and yet light as a child 's . |
| 7 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 8 | The little man nodded his bald head , his eyes simple as a child 's . |
| 9 | A thin wedge of what looked like mud caked between the heel and the sole of the left shoe ; the pattern of blood stiffening the fine fawn cashmere of the sweater ; the half-open mouth fixed in a rictus between a smile and a sneer ; the dead eyes seeming as he watched to shrink into their sockets ; the left hand with its long pale fingers , curved and delicate as a girl 's ; the palm of the right hand thick with blood . |
| 10 | face haggard as a grandfather 's |
| 11 | Vignettes drawn ad vivum depict the lives of the inhabitants of the distant regions , such as a raja 's procession in Sumatra , and a Tupinambá village in Brazil . |
| 12 | In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved . |
| 13 | Under s 21 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 , which has now been brought into force , it is an offence for an officer such as a company 's director or secretary to fail to give the name of a driver of one of the company 's vehicles where an offence has taken place in connection with that vehicle ( p 94 ) . |
| 14 | Under s 21 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 , which has now been brought into force , it is an offence for an officer such as a company 's director or secretary to fail to give the name of a driver of one of the company 's vehicles where an offence in connection with that vehicle has taken place . |
| 15 | We have been working closely with over 20 publishers on a number of major projects to ensure that computer systems are functional from 1st January , and able to collect the required information , such as a customer 's VAT number and a two character country code . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ without lawful authority or reasonable excuse ’ Lawful authority means the lawful carrying of the weapon such as a policeman 's truncheon . |
| 17 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |
| 18 | Things which are not open to change , such as a person 's age , are treated as causes ; indeed , some researchers like to reserve the term ‘ cause ’ for such factors . |
| 19 | Superimposing the pattern of a sound wave ( such as a person 's voice ) on to an electromagnetic wave ( such as the radio waves sent out from a telephone ) is simple and effective . |
| 20 | Fees have beautiful faces with hypnotic eyes , though they may be identified by a physical flaw , such as a snake 's tail or bird 's feet . |
| 21 | The unit 's radio antennae and built-in modem provide access to what is termed a ‘ tele-terminal ’ communications network , and will enable mobile users to access an office mainframe from remote locations such as a client 's house or office . |
| 22 | Children tend to come into care after upsetting events at home , such as a mother 's illness or following the trauma of eviction and homelessness . |
| 23 | Stressful life events , such as discovering a husband 's affair , and long-standing difficulties , such as a husband 's continuing unemployment causing financial and marital strains , can often be found to precede the onset of a depressive disorder . |
| 24 | Independent events are those which are most unlikely to have been brought about by the behaviour of the respondent , such as a husband 's car accident which happened while the woman was at home . |
| 25 | Rhos-on-Sea where the new breakwater forms its own natural harbour , has a continental atmosphere , and many amenities , such as a Children 's paddling pool and par putting . |
| 26 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 27 | In principal , a character may be armed with any weapon or piece of equipment normally available to the Mobs , but this does not include special weapons such as a Fanatic 's ball and chain , or a Squig Hunter 's prodder for example . |
| 28 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 29 | His voice was hoarse as a raven 's croak . |
| 30 | Shiny as a coalman 's sack , |