Example sentences of "[adj] as an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( For the same reason , French as an option within the Postgraduate Certificate continued to recruit well throughout the seventies ) . |
| 2 | In his gripping TV drama about Anthony Blunt : ‘ A Question of Attribution ’ he described the painting thus : ‘ The apostles , oblivious to all considerations but those of perspective , are fast asleep on ground as bare and brown as an end of the season goal mouth , this sleep signifying indifference . |
| 3 | The other friend , who also decided to become a lawyer , was as straight as an arrow in flight , and in total contrast , was very conventional in his approach to life . |
| 4 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 5 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 6 | She was blind as an owl in daylight without glasses : therefore nothing to look at . |
| 7 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 8 | The Law Society becomes a recognizing authority under the new scheme and so will be able to recognize a solicitor as qualified as an advocate in a particular court or courts , again subject to rules on education , training and conduct which will parallel the arrangements for the Bar . |
| 9 | I suppose that is as outspoken as an expert on etiquette can dare become in digging the dirt with his agricultural implement instead of a spade . |
| 10 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 11 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
| 12 | Her face became as bright as an icon as if she had momentarily glimpsed the old customs of Irkutsk : a bridal party bearing skates of bone and bodices of the finest needle-point standing on the southern shore and looking across Baikal ; a sallow-faced groom from Chita smoothing his first moustache and pacing the deck of an ice-locked paddle-steamer . |