Example sentences of "and [adj] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river black , flat , wide on the turn , and solid as a road . |
| 2 | It was an old-fashioned one , as heavy and solid as a lorry . |
| 3 | She was as tongue-tied and gauche as a schoolgirl on a first date . |
| 4 | Young and strong as a bull as he was , the superior odds were beginning to tell . |
| 5 | When she walked with Gran , she could feel the trembling through every limb and felt glad to be young and strong as a tree . |
| 6 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 7 | Irish gardens are islands of perfection in a landscape of empty fields as rough and tussocky as a moulting dog . |
| 8 | It was as lifeless and rigid as a piece of sculpture ; dispelling the illusion of flight . |
| 9 | ‘ In Denmark we say that aquavit is strong as a Viking , fiery as a lover , cold as an iceberg and fresh as a virgin . |
| 10 | She was wearing a man 's sweater back to front , and under her hair — cut high and short now at the back — there was a triangle of white skin as soft and fresh as a newly broken bread-roll . |
| 11 | So a handclasp burned along her nerves and home again with just herself and music , she burned through sonnets sober as never before and high as a condor . |
| 12 | Varying the textures within this sort of monochromatic colour scheme can be just as interesting and lively as a scheme full of more obvious contrasts . |
| 13 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 14 | With great grace she straddled his body , and paused for a moment , upright above him , her body as pale and slender as a wand . |
| 15 | It had superb black markings as precise and perfect as a Bewick wood engraving running down its spine ; lighter , more downy plumage covered its chest . |
| 16 | It 'll be the kind of place you might walk out of as brisk and easy as a knife cutting butter , or you might very well wander about for days , well , weeks even , without finding a proper door . |
| 17 | He becomes as soft and nervous as a cow ( 1867 ) ; he feels as worn out as a donkey ( 1867 ) ; yet still he splashes in the Seine like a porpoise ( 1870 ) . |
| 18 | He snatches the issue from politicians and makes it as grand and simple as a silver screen story . |
| 19 | Traditionally bureaucracy has been described as a role culture , but there is no reason to suppose that the different cultures can not all exist within the same organisation particularly if the organisation is as large and diverse as a government department or a local authority . |
| 20 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 21 | It was as tall and cold as a glacier rolling down a valley , crunching trees like matchsticks . |
| 22 | The water 's deep and cold as a grave here ! |
| 23 | Nothing , as both men knew , could be quite as sombre and sickening as a suicide ( or , as here , an attempted suicide ) , for it spoke not only of unbearable suffering but also of a certain misguided fortitude . |
| 24 | A fully grown woman , the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man 's . |
| 25 | Newly wed she was and pretty as a picture . ’ |
| 26 | He looked as clean and pretty as a Chelsea china figure . |
| 27 | Her skin was blue-green and marbled in the reflected lake water , and her eyes were as dull and expressionless as a shark 's . |
| 28 | The Chairmaster , grave , imposing , and bald as a biscuit , apart from the red wig , adhering by a miracle to his left ear , was attempting to give some kind of order to the proceedings . |
| 29 | When it was as pale and bald as a fledgeling , he dismembered the body , hacked up the meat with a small adze and dropped the cut pieces into a pan of hot oil . |
| 30 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |