Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were scratchy as a cat on the prowl . |
| 2 | Do you think you were conscious as a child at the difference between the way your brother was treated and the way yourself ? |
| 3 | At this time the Party especially urged its officials to set an example to the country by rescuing orphaned or abandoned children who were destitute as a result of war and , in Moldavia , famine . |
| 4 | ‘ They made us more professional and were useful as a basis for court reports , ’ he says . |
| 5 | That you were lonely as a child . ’ |
| 6 | Charles Lindblom in his article ‘ The Science of Muddling Through ’ argued that ‘ rational ’ models of decision-making were inaccurate as a description of what policy-makers do and misleading as a prescription of a ‘ good ’ or ‘ proper ’ way of making decisions . |
| 7 | Indeed many of us , to different degrees in different situations , would reject the checkerboard solution not only in general and in advance , but even in particular cases if it were available as a possibility . |
| 8 | If the taxes that individuals pay for a local public good were higher as a consequence of higher income , the poor might enjoy a greater quantity of a local public good if they were resident in a high-income area . |
| 9 | Within the Mass Market Apparel businesses , following on the previous year 's mild winter , sales volumes at J E Morgan Heavyweight remained constant , although sales dollars were higher as a result of new product introductions and a higher price mix . |
| 10 | If it were vital as a reagent — for example to introduce a carbene — we would generate it in situ and use it under a fume hood ’ . |
| 11 | They were therefore still needing the measurements of the energies of the neutrons , which were necessary as a proof that they were indeed neutrons produced by dd fusion and not somehow spurious . |
| 12 | What sort of home could you possibly give her — even if you were suitable as a parent , anyway ? |
| 13 | We also omitted the four women who were infertile as a result of endometriosis because we were specially interested in the influence of birth control methods on endometriosis . |
| 14 | let me just get back that was abhorrent as a word w has already been used and er should be used again by what you said , you saw s somebody being raped by two soldiers . |
| 15 | To Trent the splash was loud as a bomb . |
| 16 | She was pissed as a fart . |
| 17 | Borg was outstanding as a competitor , too . |
| 18 | He was helpless as a lamb |
| 19 | Well , she used to sort of keep shop for him , she was deaf as a post ! |
| 20 | The Committee considered that such a criterion was unsuitable as a basis for criminal liability . |
| 21 | That guy was sore as a cowboy 's … ’ |
| 22 | This is so even though the exact economic effect might be carried out through a transaction which , in form , was registrable as a security interest in the goods . |
| 23 | The position was that as a sub-librarian in Plymouth . |
| 24 | Employers , therefore , had less reason to associate for defensive purposes since although trade unionism did represent a challenge to employers ' power to manage ‘ it was manifest as a threat to specific employers in specific industries at specific times and places rather than as a general threat to employers as a class ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 286 ) . |
| 25 | He was popular as a man of the people who toured Mexico with his wife and 10 children in a mobile home during the presidential campaign , a very different strategy from the typically aloof approach of the PAN 's other wealthy and middle-class leaders . |
| 26 | Aqib Javed , a vastly improved bowler in the last year , was perfect as a back-up to the two great bowlers . |
| 27 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 28 | Leon was clever as a boy ; he was a dull-looking child , hampered by short sight . |
| 29 | And he did his own gardening , right up , when he was a hundred , he was fit as a fiddle when he was a hundred , doing his own gardening . |
| 30 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |