Example sentences of "but [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Queen , Cranmer was not only detestable as a heretic but odious as the man who had arranged her mother 's divorce ; he had however been legally consecrated as Archbishop by order of the pope , and only the Pope could hand him over for judgement and punishment by the civil power . |
| 2 | But responsive as the G60 's engine is , it lacks the immediacy of the Calibra 's and emits a distant but characteristic whine from the compressor . |
| 3 | In essence , the description of the reflex pathway is a miniature narrative but generalised as a typical activity by the use of the present tense whereas a fictional narrative is almost invariably reported in the past tense . |
| 4 | One of his friends who was called John ‘ she heard during the introductions , was as beautiful as Larry , but dark as a panther , cool as a wooded river . |
| 5 | He was a good player but bald as a coot . |
| 6 | John Heritage , an avant-garde poet , reveals the heart of a Rassendyll when Saskia appears to call forth his chivalrous pity ; her absent fiancé Alexis , toughened by circumstances as an exile in Australia , is as regal and remote a figure as the villain Paul Abreskov , impelled to crime through the bitterness of physical imperfection but magnificent as a ‘ lost angel ’ . |
| 7 | But pricey as the drinks at Kamieniolomy are , they are nothing compared to the girls . |
| 8 | The man they wanted was a New Zealand-born heroin tsar , sought in a dozen countries but slippery as an eel . |
| 9 | From the onset of the first Five-Year Plan , if not before , social equality has not only been sidetracked , but forsworn as the object of policy . |
| 10 | Not a language-teaching text , but useful as a source of authentic reading material covering technical terms and regulations associated with various import-export operations , eg methods of payment , inspection , records , cargoes , insurance . |
| 11 | Firstly , my children and older grandchildren want copies and , secondly , the writings may be not only entertaining but useful as a framework of speeches for others at a loss for what to say . ’ |
| 12 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 13 | He valued ceremony , too , perhaps as a barrier , negotiable when desired , but inestimable as a means of maintaining distance during a parley . |
| 14 | Age-specific mortality rates ( usually in 5-year age groups ) are interesting in themselves but cumbersome as a means of summarizing death rate patterns . |
| 15 | But Luke , she remembered , had been four years old , tall for his age but thin as a stick and pale with excitement , that day , at the journey to Manchester , the speeches , the exalted , psalm-singing atmosphere of the crowds . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's certainly not four , but bright as a button . |