Example sentences of "[adj] as an [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 2 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 3 | Blain 's very personal History of the Spitalfields Trust is as gripping as an adventure yarn . |
| 4 | At fifty-five his stomach was as flat as an ironing board . |
| 5 | My parents remembered her and often spoke of her , saying that her flight was as beautiful as an autumn sunset . |
| 6 | Until , that is , they come across an ambush of British Officer Heyward , Steven Waddington with upper lip as stiff as an ironing board , and his two charges Cora and Alice Munro ( Madeleine Stowe and Jodhi May ) , the daughters of a commanding officer of a far-flung fort . |
| 7 | Its feet were the size of dinner platters , and its tail was as long and heavy as an oak limb . |
| 8 | This information can be obtained for areas as small as an Enumeration District ( a few hundred people ) . |
| 9 | Tall , cool as an autumn wind despite the heat of the day , Adam Burns strolled casually into her garden , looking as though he owned the place . |
| 10 | His face was as round and as red as an autumn apple . |
| 11 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 12 | Scowling at his broad , white-sweatered back , she followed him into a room as neat and orderly as an operating theatre . |