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 | Then , suddenly and unexpectedly , the path emerges from the gloom of the gorge into an open amphitheatre , a green strath as pleasant as a meadow , the river now meandering gently across it . |
| 21 | The continual passage from one to the other was initially as refreshing as a succession of hot and cold showers , and ultimately as enervating . |
| 22 | Amaranth Wilikins for lunch , Angela Cartwright and Co. for dinner : Grunte hoped that the one would prove as profitable as the other . |
| 23 | As inviting as a mountain pond faithfully reflecting the message of the sky . ’ |
| 24 | Pei 's openness uses the outside so that it seems as inviting as the interior . |
| 25 | And what makes me admit that I 'm as hapless as the biography to the left suggests ? |
| 26 | Paula Milne 's decision to dramatise these events in book and play form is as admirable as the decision to make ‘ Walter ’ and undoubtedly with equally noble intent . |
| 27 | Why do certain images matter to one , and why is the desire to answer this question as involuntary as the response itself ? |
| 28 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 29 | Abstracts are intended to be as concise as the nature of a particular topic being dealt with allows and not to be detailed rule-books dealing with every conceivable circumstance . ’ |
| 30 | Using records of oral history from these two districts , Gilmour ( 1988 ) has shown that tree cover has actually increased on private farmland over the last 20 years and while there is still an overall loss of forest it is not as acute as the HEDT suggests . |