Example sentences of "as [adj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the lyrics , some of which are spoken by a seven-year-old , are annoyingly political and can be as unbelievable as the band 's promotional literature . |
2 | Gambon relishes the Mafia boss routine and the scene where he gives Luciano his famous scar is somewhat offputting — but not as stomach-turning as the sight of a mad dog rival of Lucky 's biting off a hoodlum 's nose , then cutting out another 's tongue . |
3 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
4 | His breath smelt as rich as a wine press . |
5 | Bargain set menus change with the market and are the best choice : Connaught-trained chef whisks up ultra-light leek terrine layered like lasagne , heaps of appley duck with green pasta tower , and neatly balanced fish casserole a la Dieppoise ; there 's also a meaty crab tart ( £3.95 ) and a choc pave as rich as the neighbourhood . |
6 | PENNED-IN by steel barriers between a noisy crowd of gay liberationists and the lonely emissary of the oppressed African Dinkas , few of the street-corner causes besieging this week 's conference seem as hopeless as the campaign for Labour to organise in Ulster . |
7 | The duty to protest is as undeniable as the need . |
8 | Plus they rely far too heavily on Chad Gracey 's bionic drumming to get them noticed , the tinny snare effect soon becoming as annoying as a catfight underneath your window at 3.00am . |
9 | The haul up from there to the top of the highest bank was several hundred feet of deep heather , pollen-dusty and honey-scented , but as friendly as a hedgehog for a flea . |
10 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
11 | In some areas you 're as blinkered as a donkey . |
12 | Ruth was as agile as a dolphin in the water and she was away from him before he had a chance to stop her . |
13 | As the little girl clambered up , as agile as a monkey , Shiona started to pull her own pyjamas from the bag . |
14 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
15 | In every isolated basin of the plateau the life led by the common people day after day was as monotonous as the climate and the landscape ; and everything that deviated from the ordinary , everything strange or unforeseen , was regarded as supernatural . |
16 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
17 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
18 | the stuff he uses is ve is n't as caustic as the stuff we |
19 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
20 | Now he 's got it down to as little as a couple of weeks . |
21 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |
22 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |
23 | ‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’ |
24 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
25 | EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay . |
26 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
27 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
28 | Open consideration of sexual matters and casual reference to them have become possible to an extent which would have been unthinkable as little as a generation ago and which might have led to criminal — or lunacy — proceedings at the beginning of the century . |
29 | As little as a decade ago this view might easily have been categorised as American , drawing on a particular fusion of James Madison with Alexis de Tocqueville . |
30 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |