Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music was sure as a swing in high summer , to and fro , light as racing over a sunny lawn to the blessed shade under the trees . |
| 2 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 3 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 5 | Carter mentions Walter de la Mare 's recourse to Christian allegory as being ‘ as good as putting up a No Trespassers sign ’ . |
| 6 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day . |
| 8 | The city parasites were also massing as thick as flies over a turd : smooth-skinned lads , cloak-twitchers , quacks , night wanderers , mimes and petty sorcerers . |
| 9 | This can be just as traumatic and lengthy as coming off an opioid , as the following interviewee experienced : |