Example sentences of "as [adj] as [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Gower : The Autobiography ( Collins-Willow £14.99 ) is as refreshing as gin and tonic . |
| 2 | She was n't perfect ; she had a temper , and children who got in her way on bad days were liable to get clouted ; but she was as normal as daylight and , for all her temper , the nicest person Ruth knew . |
| 3 | I stepped on a twig which made a noise that seemed as loud as thunder and I ran back across to my hiding place . |
| 4 | Melamine boards are n't as durable as wood or polythene and as they wear , they can absorb bacteria . |
| 5 | ’ The thing that bothers me about English training is that although acting is as demanding as ballet or opera , dancers and singers work out every day . |
| 6 | Seagoing is as old as history and the merchant seaman as old as trade itself . |
| 7 | It moved from hope as high as heaven and a garden bright with love through unutterable sadness , loss , and then violence , to the return to Chaos in the Flood . |
| 8 | The brothers are as different as day and night . |
| 9 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 10 | Schizophrenia is classified as a functional psychosis and split personality as a dissociative hysterical neurosis , as different as tonsillitis and appendicitis . |
| 11 | They are psychologically , spiritually and in personality as different as chalk and cheese . |
| 12 | ‘ Basically we 're as different as chalk and cheese , and we have completely different life styles — for a start I 'm a family man , and he 's not . |
| 13 | As different as chalk and cheese — and equally as disappointing to me , ’ she snapped . |
| 14 | They look alike but they 're as different as chalk and cheese . ’ |
| 15 | The two men are as different as chalk and cheese . |
| 16 | Their as different as chalk and bloody cheese . |
| 17 | To anyone raising the argument that perpetual servitude is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel , I will reply that , adding up all the moments of unhappiness of servitude , it may well be even more cruel ; but these are drawn out over an entire lifetime , while the pain of death exerts its whole force in a moment . |
| 18 | I saw their uncircumcised members as clear as day and shuddered . |
| 19 | As central as homework and playgrounds . |
| 20 | If people actually accuse you of something as serious as cruelty and neglect , is n't it worth a listen ? |
| 21 | They laughed , swam in the Humber ( which , strangely , was as warm as bathwater and a dazzling , transparent blue ) , chased each other , in slow motion , through the sand dunes , caught each other and kissed , fed each other with — Marie could not decide what they should feed each other with . |
| 22 | As much as life and death . |
| 23 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 24 | It was a vocation just as much as marriage and sometimes far less demanding . |
| 25 | With an ageing population , limited national resources and , perhaps less than efficient administrators , health service management will need the function of professional public relations as much as industry and government now do . |
| 26 | It does not stretch as much as nylon or polyester twist and it knots easily . |
| 27 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 28 | In due course many of these became great barons in their own right ; but their origin was not quickly forgotten , and served as a constant reminder that royal patronage and service to the great counted for as much as blood and status . |
| 29 | ( I use ‘ psychiatry ’ here in the broad sense to refer to psychiatric theory as much as therapy and to include depth psychology , i.e. various forms of psychoanalytic theory . ) |
| 30 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of those measures could be a Government publicity campaign to warn youngsters that car stealing is as dangerous as alcohol or drug abuse ? |