Example sentences of "clear as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How to get back to either place after making the equivalent response to a 999 call is not clear as no P.O.D . |
| 2 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 3 | That was clear as a succession of batsmen joined Gooch in the ignominy of having their stumps knocked over . |
| 4 | The whole scene to my informant was as clear as a bell , but on reflection it would seem as if it was part of an earlier railway system . |
| 5 | Mum , dad and the three children were sitting round the fire , cracking nuts and watching TV and the atmosphere inside was as clear as a spring dawn — not a puff of smoke to be seen . |
| 6 | But then one small voice spoke up , clear as a bell ringing in the quiet air . |
| 7 | The bell-lamp in the passage looked as clear as a soap-bubble ; you could see yourself in all the tables , and French-polish yourself on any one of the chairs . |
| 8 | He had it then , as clear as a map of a well-charted route unfolded on the captain 's table , what lay in store for him and for the settlement ; though the islanders had not burned wet leaves and swelled white smoke into a pillar of cloud to issue a warning , the signal might as well have been as clear . |
| 9 | ‘ Another told me he had a dream , there was a fountain and it had a name , clear as a bell in his dream : Jouvence . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's coming from the right , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I can hear it as clear as a bell . ’ |
| 11 | Clear as a bell . |
| 12 | The term ‘ consultation ’ is often used inaccurately ; we should be clear as a union , but also CA as an organisation , as to what we mean by it . |
| 13 | The scale of the opposition to the health secretary became clear as the staff crowded round the lunchtime television news . |
| 14 | The tow rope sprang taut , plucking the dinghy clear as the swell broke , thundering forward on to the waiting coral . |
| 15 | Yes , you have to keep up with the times , but it 's about as hop and happening as Liverpool 's away kit — and as clear as the sprites on Shadow Warriors ! |
| 16 | Mammal footprints are rarely as clear as the textbook illustrations . |
| 17 | Common philosophy : What is becoming clear as the partnership progresses is that BP and Unipart share a common philosophy — based on quality products , a focus on giving customers the best possible service , and a commercial drive to get more bang for fewer bucks . |
| 18 | The air was as clear as the air only is after prolonged rain . |
| 19 | Great towering clouds were massing behind Big Allen but to the west the sky was as clear as the inside of a mother-of-pearl-lined shell , of a pale , tender , pink-stained azure . |
| 20 | I do n't mean art should be as clear as the instructions on a packet of seeds ; I 'm saying that you trust the mystifier more if you know he 's deliberately choosing not to be lucid . |
| 21 | For Christ 's sake , M' lud , the matter 's as clear as the loincloth on the Crucifixion . |
| 22 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 23 | It had been smudged by the photocopier and was by no means as clear as the original . |