Example sentences of "and [adj] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had a father-in-law as cold and unfeeling as Prince Philip — not to mention a mother-in-law more concerned with protocol than emotions and a husband who prefers to talk to his plants — I 'd have had a nervous breakdown by now . |
| 2 | His lips were smiling lovingly , but his eyes were hard and unfeeling as jet . |
| 3 | When I was anorexic I had only dim feelings of resentment as to how my body was destined to be used , and the thought of anything as positive and specific as penetration never entered my mind . |
| 4 | You know that times are changing in Wales when a man as outspoken and innovative as Llanelli 's GARETH JENKINS can become a national coach and selector . |
| 5 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! |
| 7 | I felt all weepy and emotional as Karen and I drove home together . |
| 8 | Daisy Chainsaw try to shock and scare and upset as art terrorists detonating nailbombs in the nursery , subverting our notions of how a little girly and her backing bullies should behave , and fail dismally . |
| 9 | Two minutes later , Clare stood at her grandmother 's bedside ; after a sleepless night , she looked almost as pale and exhausted as Elinor . |
| 10 | If all TECs are as helpful and supportive as Bradford , then long may they flourish . |
| 11 | Hot and dry as Spain can be , and despite the flamenco guitars which occasionally steal into the rhythms of the music , Saez has looked further south to find inspiration for Uadi , a dreamy , hypnotic evocation of the North African desert . |
| 12 | As a boy I was always taught to use a sod of turf as a foundation , so that the eggs would remain slightly damp , and to build a snug nest of hay on top of it - and the barn wall was knobbly , draughty and dry as dust . |
| 13 | In the heart of the great metropolitan areas of America the inner cities became as desolate and hopeless as shanty towns . |
| 14 | With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army 's casualties . |
| 15 | Joanna 's face was as white as Sophie 's , who stood motionless and speechless as Dawn 's words echoed in her ears . |
| 16 | But the office will eventually be upgraded and formalised as Porsche Engineering . |
| 17 | The laws of Hlothhere and Eadric appear in their extant version as a single code issued jointly by Hlothhere and Eadric as kings of Kent , but they may represent a conflation of two originally separate sets of laws or even a confirmation by Eadric of the dooms of his uncle . |
| 18 | Her back so hot , and slick as ice . |
| 19 | ‘ Hair that 's as thick and luxuriant as Helen 's needs a definite style and regular trimming otherwise it grows outwards , making the head look bulky , ’ he said . |
| 20 | We have this church , where Bee preach the sermons quiet , without spirit so as not to move the congregation to sing too loud or ring the bell or catch the Spirit and speak in tongues , so when Corporal Prince break into the Church one evening , he and the whole Bonasse Police Force , he finds us singing soft and low as children in a Sunday School : ‘ God moves in mysterious way His wonders to perform . ’ |
| 21 | The fact that most of them already had criminal records was widely publicised and used as evidence of their guilt in the Chai Qing Feng case . |
| 22 | and used as evidence of provocative atrocities that would justify invading Poland . |
| 23 | The extract thus achieved ( α antigen ) was diluted in carbonate-bicarbonate buffer pH 9.5 and used as substrate for ELISA . |
| 24 | Many bacteria can also be isolated from insects and may be important in the natural control of insect populations , but the only bacteria which have been extensively studied and used as pest control agents are Bacillus spp . |
| 25 | Accurate and comprehensive claims are prepared from data retained and used as management information and estimating source information . |
| 26 | Title was acquired by terrestrial airline and used as inflight reading under editorship of William Davies . |
| 27 | The swastika lozenge ( at North Hill and Box ) or swastika in a tilted square ( Culver Street ) is a common motif ; as are triangles ( hollowed at Rapsley and North Hill ) , reversed and used as fillers for the spaces between lozenges . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , some wooded areas were more intensively settled and used as time went on . |
| 29 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 30 | But it is already clear that the right has won the school wars , and that the left made a mistake in thinking that racial and sexual minorities can be lumped together and used as footsoldiers in the war against the establishment . |