Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 3 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 4 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 5 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
| 6 | This Katherine instead reminded her a little of those refugee children she had housed during the war , ever polite , ever ready to comply , but as old as the world and never altogether of it . |
| 7 | During contests he was as jumpy as a schoolgirl and gave off a static charge of nervous energy . |
| 8 | Public transport is as elusive as the wildlife and not recommended , besides which the USA is geared to the motorist above all others . |
| 9 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 10 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 11 | The Beeching proposals for the railways ( figure 6.2 ) can be compared with the 1982–83 rail network ( figure 6.3 ) although , as with bus services , the network itself may not be as crucial as the frequency and cost of train journeys . |
| 12 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
| 13 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
| 14 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
| 15 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
| 16 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 17 | His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick . |
| 18 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 19 | Pesticides have had a damaging effect on a lot of wildlife , including birds of prey , but for some reason this does n't seem to have affected barn owls as much as the sparrowhawk and peregrine populations . |
| 20 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 21 | The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place . |
| 22 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 23 | When Mr Wormwood arrived back from the garage that evening his face was as dark as a thunder-cloud and somebody was clearly for the high-jump pretty soon . |
| 24 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 25 | In one version it is the highly particularized action of networks of people in the network of streets that is Dublin on one day and another , suggested to us as early as the title and continued through innumerable associations and hints , it is a vast and teeming world through which and erratic journeying is taking its course in space and time , inner and outer . |
| 26 | He saw the state not merely as a division but as a combination of labour , an economic community or union every bit as real as the household or firm , and far more powerful . |
| 27 | ‘ She was as straight as a die and a pillar of the community . |
| 28 | His back was also as straight as a ramrod and his highly polished black gaiters had flashed in the sun . |
| 29 | Once , he thought , there had been someone who had mattered all too much , but by the grace of God and Llewelyn she was safe out of his reach now , calm in her sanctuary above Aber ; a refuge as sacrosanct as the grave and almost as narrow . |
| 30 | In the same area , tribes such as the Zuni and the Hopi built the first apartment houses in the USA . |