Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had become too cloying in his affections , his talk as saccharine as the dialogue from the Christmas classics on the television , his every gaze mawkish . |
| 2 | In his bedroom Raymond is torturing his electric guitar , which is plugged into an amplifier as big as an upended coffin , grinning fiendishly as he produces howls and wails of feedback . |
| 3 | The German skipper ascribed most of his problems to his team 's unfamiliarity with a boat as big as the 33ft ( 10.2m ) Farr MRX used . |
| 4 | Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her . |
| 5 | The cook came up the side as quick as a monkey and saw what we were doing . |
| 6 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 7 | What is at stake is whether conurbations like Merseyside and Tyne side face a future as grim as the present Belfast . |
| 8 | Shady Marcus at last exposed the soap 's Mr Big but it had all the dramatic impact of one of those dated Ealing comedies where George Cole plays a gangster as threatening as a game show host . |
| 9 | On paper it has the price , performance and specification to worry a car as good as the Vauxhall Carlton GSi 3000 24v . |
| 10 | It 's hard to believe that a car as heavy as the SL can generate such massive grip , yet retain an admirably accomplished ride . |
| 11 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 12 | Elinor , now asleep in the bedroom , her square jaw up like a tombstone , her mouth as wide as a new grave , her light snore ticking fitfully , like some tired machine . |
| 13 | His blond stubble was silky and made his mouth as exciting as an adolescent boy 's . |
| 14 | A grille was opened , revealing an evil , narrow-faced , yellow-featured man with eyes of watery blue and a mouth as thin as a vice . |
| 15 | His rich guest merely made a sound , unable clearly to articulate a word with his mouth as wadded as a feather pillow . |
| 16 | He was a tallish man with a mind as sharp as a razor . |
| 17 | Everything that he 'd had in mind to say to her was suddenly gone from his head , his mind as blank as a new wall and his belly full of sudden , inexplicable dread . |
| 18 | In other words , is this batch as good as the last ? |
| 19 | Our hotel , the Atlantico , overlooked the harbour , and that evening we watched a local single-engined plane repeatedly flying over the harbour as low as a couple of hundred feet above the cranes . |
| 20 | An interferometer swung around by the Earth 's rotation will ‘ synthesise ’ a dish as large as the separation of the two telescopes . |
| 21 | IT is one of the quieter moments in a campaign as raucous as a New York gridlock . |
| 22 | She could still remember it all intensely : the swimming pool in which she had learnt to do a dog-paddle ; the ring game ; the endless stretch of blue ocean ; the vast liner as big as a city through which she and Pappy had wandered endlessly . |
| 23 | HOW strange that a girl as pretty as the winner of the Kim Basinger lookalike contest in America should be called Andrew Wright . |
| 24 | Night had invaded the heavens , closing around the waxworks like a black fist as impenetrable as the umbra that seemed to fill every inch of the museum . |
| 25 | Sister Martha 's father was a butcher in Fecamp years ago , his overall as blue as the habit she wears now . |
| 26 | She keeps their home as clean as a refrigerator and about as warm . |
| 27 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 28 | Now he could see that the mound had an entrance , marked by a boulder as large as the mounting block . |
| 29 | Tranmere now were not only confident but cocky , and as Spurs deteriorated into a formation as ragged as a returning Battle of Britain squadron it was the Third Division side who found space and time . |
| 30 | And looking at the Palestinian revolution ‘ trom a viewpoint higher than my own ’ he regards it as ultimately a revolt reaching to the limits of Islam , a ‘ calling for a revision , probably even a rejection , of a theology as soporific as a Breton cradle ’ ( p. 88 ) . |