Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The cook came up the side as quick as a monkey and saw what we were doing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But as one of the detective-constables clicked a pair of handcuffs round his wrists , Cedric Downes was apparently in no state at all to mouth as much as a monosyllable , let alone give utterance to any incriminating statement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His rich guest merely made a sound , unable clearly to articulate a word with his mouth as wadded as a feather pillow . |
| 11 | He was a tallish man with a mind as sharp as a razor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 15 | IT is one of the quieter moments in a campaign as raucous as a New York gridlock . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She keeps their home as clean as a refrigerator and about as warm . |
| 18 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 22 | Aunt Goldie points to a moon-faced infant in a perambulator as high as a royal coach . |
| 23 | Indeed , extra-curricular activity includes attracting as much media attention as possible as a member of Act-Up , the New York activists whose purpose is to elevate Aids to the top of government priorities . |
| 24 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 25 | He accepted Toby 's outstretched hand , its appearance as limp as a flipper , only to find that the grasp was strong and confident . |
| 26 | dogs and other pets snakes and other poisonous creatures There 's no weapon as versatile as a knife . |
| 27 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 28 | ‘ Where do ye work ? ’ she asked casually , making the question sound as disinterested as a comment about the weather or the conductor 's handkerchief . |
| 29 | He deserves a medal as big as a frying pan . ’ |
| 30 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |