Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and over alleys narrow as the makeshift coffins |
| 2 | To his right the ground rose gently towards the southern cliffs and he could see the dark mouth of a concrete pillbox , undemolished since the war , and as seemingly indestructible as the great hulks of wave-battered concrete , remnants of the old fortifications which lay half-submerged in the sand along part of the beach . |
| 3 | Hahnemann 's practical simplicity is masterful as the small granules not only provide a tiny , manageable dose , for using with patients , but also the smallest practical unit to effect such large dilution ratio . |
| 4 | Bagdikian argues that national boundaries are growing increasingly meaningless as the main actors ( five groups at the time he was writing ) strive for total control in the production , delivery , and marketing of what we can call the cultural-ideological goods of the global capitalist system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The trajectory of the 1/ CV 2 plot ( c ) is steep and above the diagonal as the mean changes after the tetanus ( arrowed ) . |
| 8 | That question calls for consideration of what was reasonably foreseeable as the future consequences of the careless act . |
| 9 | Although not nearly so cold as the ceramic tiles of the hall , the linoleum beneath his bare feet had a chill that seemed to creep right through his body . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More aggressive chemicals are ruled out because of possible damage and abrasives are unsatisfactory as the aggregate lodges in surface scores . |
| 12 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 13 | She looked at the Cauldron , small and ancient as the other Treasures . |
| 14 | The bundle she had disturbed eddied a few inches into the deeper water and as Wexford watched , a thin pale hand , lifeless as the agate-veined stones , rose slowly from the sodden cloth , its fingers hanging yet pointing towards him . |
| 15 | Qualifications in computing have international currency ; this is becoming more and more important as the worldwide skills shortage in computing and related professional areas acquires greater significance . |
| 16 | From the pastoral comforts of the Plateau de Bénou , the road twists abruptly down past the villages of Bilhères and of Bielle , another valley ‘ capital ’ this , with some fine fifteenth-and sixteenth-century house fronts , but particularly commendable as a slated roofs cape seen from higher up the road — this is Béarn , and grey slates arc what you expect on roofs , no longer Basque tiles . |
| 17 | He knows one thing is certain — Forest will be much more difficult to beat at Wembley than they were against Wednesday , who joined Sheffield United as the only teams to have achieved a double over Forest this season . |
| 18 | The reasons for this allocation of lawyers to cells will become apparent as the deviant cases — those in which the client 's chosen outcome was rejected — and the doubtful cases are examined . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She watched amazed as the broken ranks filed past in utter silence , silence save for the dull rattle of equipment . |
| 21 | She had been even more excited as the blue flames whipped from the bulky Boeing 's engines and New York 's familiar skyline was metamorphosed into a dark sea of twinkling lights . |
| 22 | She thought she had never seen anything so delicate as his left eyelid quivering above the green ball of his eye , nor anything so vivid as the scarlet spots spattering the bow of his tie . |
| 23 | The wings close slightly and become more angular as the wind-speed increases ( E ) , when stooping for food , the gull spills air by raising its wings ( F ) . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |