Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Families are not necessarily self-contained or happy as the rising rate of divorce partly indicates . |
| 2 | ‘ Aesthetic judgements are impossible ’ , the narration concluded , a denial which implied that paintings are only as good or bad as the political opinions of those that paint them . |
| 3 | Unmoving , he seemed part of the very landscape he stood in , his eyes deep and clear as the blue sea before him , his shoulder-length hair just as golden as the sun burning far above in an azure sky . |
| 4 | The sensation augmented in roaring octaves of bitter power until she hung at the edge of being where something — some eternal truth — hung clear and untouchable as the luscious stars . |
| 5 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 6 | The night air was warm and humid as the small motor fishing vessel slipped out of Ness Harbour near the Butt of Lewis and steadied on a northerly course into the Atlantic . |
| 7 | Everything about this production is right , from the casting of Joanna Riding and Michael Hayden , proud and passionate as the star-crossed lovers , to Patricia Routledge in fine voice for June Is Bustin' Out All Over , to the choreography and chorus — both inspired and exciting . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe you 're pure and white as the driven snow , but you have to face the fact that there must be some reason why those men waylaid you . |
| 9 | Another marriage — probably as chill and loveless as the last — or a comparable prison in her father 's house . |
| 10 | It would have been small consolation to him to know that later , on 22 August , she wrote : ‘ Odiously impertinent , insulting and boastful as the French have always been , one can not help feeling for them . ’ |
| 11 | She looked at the Cauldron , small and ancient as the other Treasures . |
| 12 | In this tortured landscape , the shoulder blade was their anchor , bleached and bare as the river-smoothed head of a Neanderthal axe . |
| 13 | Promises to establish Muslim schools could land a future Labour government with a problem as potentially explosive and insoluble as the Irish question , Neil Fletcher , Labour leader of the Inner London Education Authority , said yesterday at a conference fringe meeting . |
| 14 | ( First Edition ) PROMISES to establish Muslim schools could land a future Labour government with a problem as potentially explosive and insoluble as the Irish question , Neil Fletcher , Labour leader of the Inner London Education Authority , said yesterday . |
| 15 | Somewhat incongruously , an accordion started playing ‘ The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen ’ as we passed under the Erskine Bridge , thin and elegant as the still herons by the side of the now slowly widening river . |
| 16 | ‘ Family physicians ’ enjoy the most extraordinary regard in our society : somewhere in our joint head we need to see them as knowing , honest , trustworthy , benign and caring folk — the truth of the matter being that they are as forgetful , spiteful and drunk as the next person — and as likely to grow old , lecherous and incompetent as anyone else . |
| 17 | His great Death of Act aeon ( fig. 119 ) has the same kind of fusion of old and new as the Ludovisi throne ( fig. 83 ) , and is no less effective . |
| 18 | As we can now see , the displacing of the ‘ linear ’ and quasi-geometrical as the dominant mode in New York ( and Parisian ) abstract art after 1943 offers another instance of that cyclical alternation of non-painterly , or linear , and painterly which has marked the evolution of Western art since the sixteenth century . |