Example sentences of "clear as [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I saw their uncircumcised members as clear as day and shuddered . |
| 2 | Suddenly it 's light , clear as day ; we stop in front of a German 3″ mortar with a neat pile of HE bombs beside it . |
| 3 | Life 's folly clear as day . |
| 4 | It was as clear as day . |
| 5 | It was suddenly as clear as day . |
| 6 | I remember as clear as day , standing talking to Penny and I was calling their plumber , I 'll always remember that and er I was quite took back and Penny said ooh she 's been very good to me |
| 7 | The answers were clear as ash in a smouldering grate . |
| 8 | Her need of the steadying , mature containment of the Ryans is as clear as ice water , for there is much in her professional and personal past that has had to be relinquished . |
| 9 | I shivered for they were soulless , clear as ice . |
| 10 | Then on the fifth day , mid-morning , a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon . |
| 11 | And a passing glimpse of a profile clear as bronze , and at the moment of passing as aloof and serene . |
| 12 | We paddle on seas the green of cat 's eyes , and seas as clear as mountain streams . |
| 13 | To him and to most of his European friends , it was as clear as daylight in the sky that a war was coming . |
| 14 | On a global level , client satisfaction is clear as client numbers are increasing , but still the CAB can not be sure that its own aims of offering accurate and impartial advice and information are fulfilled . |
| 15 | At the age of twenty-eight she had awakened one morning to the realisation , clear as dawn , that to hope for things did not necessarily bring them about , that there was no earthly reason why she should be happy , healthy and husbanded . |
| 16 | We were roach fishing , larking about perhaps more than anything else , and could catch nothing ; you see it was a scorching day and the water bright and clear as crystal . |
| 17 | Sandie 's vocals , clear as crystal , slipped joyfully into her Morrissey role . |
| 18 | Lochs which were once as clear as crystal are now coloured muddy brown . |
| 19 | Kavner is n't clear as crystal on what exactly changed his mind — though he claims it was n't the money — and claims not to know what persuaded Noorda to push it in November when it all started to happen . |
| 20 | Her mind was now as clear as spring water . |
| 21 | The sky is clear as glass . |
| 22 | The words , clear as glass : |
| 23 | Penelope Fitzgerald 's prose is as clear as glass , and you realise how much she has n't said only when you stop laughing . |
| 24 | Clouds still heaped in the west , but over the crossroads at Quatre Bras , and above a stream just north of Fleurus , the sky was clear as glass . |
| 25 | The keel stayed solid for a few moments , then clouded and became clear as glass . |
| 26 | What this really means , of course , is still as clear as mud . |
| 27 | Ideally you need just a little one-to-one tuition , preferably after you have struggled on your own for a bit to discover which bits are clear as daylight and which are clear as mud . |
| 28 | ‘ To me — a stranger — that 's about as clear as mud . |