Example sentences of "and as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was short , and as dark-skinned as the boatman , which was darker than most of the Bahamians . |
| 2 | He also introduced Corbett who felt many of the lords were too busy to acknowledge him though he noticed Bishop Wishart of Glasgow , a wizened little man with a face as brown and as wrinkled as a shrivelled walnut , studying him intently beneath heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 3 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 4 | It was about eight inches long , double edged and as sharp as a razor . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's no danger , ’ he translated , his eyes on the soothsayer 's hands , ‘ but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle . ’ |
| 6 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 7 | She was beautiful , and as proud as a queen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Vehicles had scored a shallow trench , a foot deep and as wide as a narrow road . |
| 10 | Ezra had neither toughness nor elasticity : he was as rigidly intelligent as a Plymouth brother ; and as vulnerable as a sea-anemone . |
| 11 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 12 | Bracknell 's youth team keeper , Dean Simmons was soon under pressure and as early as the ninth minute , Abingdon took the lead ; having forced a corner , Keith Appleton swung the ball into the area , Steve Aries won it well in the air , and knocked it down to Liam Herbert who crashed his shot past Simmons to make it one nil . |
| 13 | The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator . |
| 14 | He had played classical music on the stereo , which Boy had assured him he liked , and it was true ; Boy had never heard music like this before and he thought it was wonderful , a sound as big , and as warm , and as expensive as the car ; a sound as exciting as the sensation of being driven through the night by a stranger . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She felt small , and as frail as a bird . |
| 17 | Tall , and as strong as a lion . |
| 18 | Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox . |
| 19 | This follows success with its Wealth of Nations mead ( ‘ As sweet and as strong as the free market itself ’ ) which was presented to John Major , Chancellor Norman Lamont and Sir Denis Thatcher , as well as bemused visitors from overseas at the Institute 's privatisation conferences . |
| 20 | One moment she could be smiling tenderly as she fed the animals , the next filled with anger and as dangerous as a tiger at bay . |
| 21 | His profile looked as ancient as a Red Indian 's and as young as a street-child 's . |
| 22 | Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , who worked with him on the project , planned to be , as It predicted in late April , ‘ as experimental and as international as the Lord Chamberlain will allow ’ . |
| 23 | Ye 're my young brother 's bairn and as innocent as the lamb of God . ’ |
| 24 | I am surprised that someone as acute and as experienced as the right hon. Gentleman does not appreciate that arguments for fairness and justice also enter into the matter . |
| 25 | Suddenly , black movies became Malcolm X-rated and Richard Roundtree appeared , not as some hat-tipping descendant of Uncle Remus , but as Shaft , a dark avenger , unstoppable , sex-sharp , streetwise and as cool as a Harlem icebox in December . |
| 26 | In a way she was imposing , and as statuesque as the pictures in front of her ; it was just that she was not , and never could be , her father 's type . |
| 27 | This , though it is everywhere as various and as changeable as the biographical time which Bakhtin finds in classical Greek literature , can nevertheless still be identified as a distinctive and possibly definitive generic shift . |
| 28 | Christians had always lived — like most late antique people — in a universe which included an unseen world as large and as varied as the visible . |
| 29 | I do n't need the Chief Executive to tell me what 's happening because I 'm going to be involved in seeing what 's happening and as far as the Labour people talking about the cost it 's going to create . |
| 30 | Theory-crammed history of artificial and military intelligence which suggests that the ‘ cybernetic organism ’ is as ancient as the Greeks and as modern as the Tomohawk missile . |