Example sentences of "be [adj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 2 | The specific policies and rhetoric have been different as the occasion demanded . |
| 3 | And here you are free as a bird , for once , provided you come back to your cage in time . |
| 4 | ‘ Rubbish , you 're strong as a harse , I tell you ! ’ |
| 5 | The only other time they 're paid compensation for loss of earnings , is when they 're sick as a result of an injury received on duty , you know Fire Brigade duty . |
| 6 | You are pretty as a picture and we would not want you drawing attention to yourself , would we ! ’ |
| 7 | Both activities are illegal as the plant is protected under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 8 | Short sessions such as these are invaluable as the student is learning from actual patient care , and a wide range of subjects will be drawn together in order to bring about better understanding of this care . |
| 9 | ( I am blind as a bat without and contact lenses are too expensive and who do you think you are , you should be studying . ) |
| 10 | We can legitimately ask to what extent such personal qualities are important as a source of power within the public sector . |
| 11 | Go on , Hepzibah , I 'm strong as a horse now and I could do with some air . ’ |
| 12 | Reliance need not be total as the issue is whether the description is material in influencing the decision to buy . |
| 13 | The normal course of trials is likely to be different as the court will often direct that a witness statement stand as the evidence in chief , or at least part of the evidence in chief , of its maker and , in any event , a witness statement may put to the maker in cross-examination . |
| 14 | The construction must be free from dirt traps ( so any form of framed system with infill panels will not be acceptable as the construction forms dirt traps which can never be effectively cleaned ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Up on the downs it would be dark as a velvet bag . |
| 17 | See also Ginera v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 where an application for Sunday opening in respect of a provisional grant of licence was held to be incompetent as the licence is not in force and only the holder of a public house licence can make application for Sunday opening . |
| 18 | In many cases this would be impossible as the count may hold titles in two or more places ! |
| 19 | It may not be easy as the race gets closer , especially if you have to travel and stay overnight . |
| 20 | However , any contract action against Dynamight would be pointless as the judgment could probably not be enforced . |
| 21 | Security at Enniskillen Courthouse will be tight as the army witnesses , identified only as solders N , M , K and L give evidence into the deaths of the three armed terrorists . |
| 22 | ‘ What , so you 'd be sick as a parrot if we went over the moon together ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sick as a parrot not to be standing , ’ said Nigel . |
| 24 | Our cells may be cold as a dip in the sea , but our hearts are still warm , thank God . ’ |
| 25 | Normally a classified image would be colour-coded as the eye is not capable of distinguishing more than six or seven levels of grey . |
| 26 | The orientation of the rolls will depend on whatever small perturbations happen to be present as the temperature difference is raised . |
| 27 | I 'm stiff as a board and want to stretch my legs . ’ |
| 28 | It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands . |
| 29 | In the future this will be essential as the system moves towards an integrated structure . |
| 30 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |