Example sentences of "[was/were] as [adj] [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was as awesome as an Arab raiding-party in a Yorkshire village . |
| 2 | At fifty-five his stomach was as flat as an ironing board . |
| 3 | The voice belonged to the ‘ Trog ’ , a short , thick-set man who resembled a character of the Stone Age and was as strong as an ox . |
| 4 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 5 | It was as great as an army , they said , and Rime Giants walked with it like shepherds . |
| 6 | In another trial this type of diet was as effective as an elemental diet in inducing remission in active Crohn 's disease . |
| 7 | In three of them , this diet was as effective as an elemental diet in achieving remission . |
| 8 | His face was as gloomy as an El Greco ; insufferably bored , decades of boredom , and probably , I decided , insufferably boring . |
| 9 | The other friend , who also decided to become a lawyer , was as straight as an arrow in flight , and in total contrast , was very conventional in his approach to life . |
| 10 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 11 | I ’ d left umbrella in restaurant , suede high-heeled shoes were under threat , and a taxi was as rare as an Osprey . |
| 12 | ‘ He was as good as an extra maid , ’ said Minto . |
| 13 | Out among the dunes , quietness could be tranquil , but here it was as eerie as an empty theatre . |
| 14 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 15 | And a bubble blew up under the mud , and when the bubble was as big as an elephant it burst , and out popped Mrs Dinwiddie . |
| 16 | Colonel Stok was as big as an old oak wardrobe . |
| 17 | My parents remembered her and often spoke of her , saying that her flight was as beautiful as an autumn sunset . |
| 18 | It was as featureless as an egg . |
| 19 | Mr Broadhurst 's caravan was as unlived-in as an imaginary room constructed to display furniture in a department store . |
| 20 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 21 | It was as cold as an old grave . |
| 22 | Dikeledi , the tough woman , who smoked and swaggered and whose voice was as hoarse as an old man 's , turned tear-filled eyes on the white woman 's face . |