Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonds can be as cruel as torture if applied with enough viciousness . |
| 2 | The Norfolk official left City looking as crestfallen as Christmas turkeys when Garry Parker volleyed them in front with clinical skill — with Dalian Atkinson clearly offside , twice . |
| 3 | Micro Focus , meanwhile , is offering a fully dynamic system that it claims is as polymorphic as Smalltalk in that it supports dynamic look-ups and can implement an untyped system . |
| 4 | David Gower : The Autobiography ( Collins-Willow £14.99 ) is as refreshing as gin and tonic . |
| 5 | It is estimated that keg beer is twice as profitable as cask beer , lager four times as profitable . |
| 6 | Wood was as scarce as silver in the poorer parts of Cairo . |
| 7 | I steered clear of Daniel 's murder , but he 's as guilty as hell in the other case too . ’ |
| 8 | As accessories , the Libyans who supplied those components were as guilty as hell , as guilty morally and legally as anyone directly involved in commissioning or committing mass murder . |
| 9 | Whenever her family had been mentioned she looked as guilty as hell . |
| 10 | ‘ No comment ’ means ‘ as guilty as hell ’ . |
| 11 | instead of as weak as water , |
| 12 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ As weak as water ’ ? |
| 13 | ‘ As weak as water . |
| 14 | I 'll put you in charge of the guard and you 'll be as right as rain . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No anaesthetic , and you 'll feel as right as rain afterwards . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I shall be as right as rain in no time . ’ |
| 17 | Oh you 'll be , be as right as rain by that time . |
| 18 | Put another few down me and I 'll be as right as rain . |
| 19 | He then closed it and felt as right as rain . |
| 20 | That 'll bring the bruising out and the ankle will be as right as rain in a week or two . ’ |
| 21 | " She was as right as rain two days ago , " Jenny said , " and she was well all winter . |
| 22 | I 'll be as right as rain again soon . |
| 23 | Yeah but when he got down here he was as right as rain was n't he ? |
| 24 | Course , he went on Saturday , did n't and she was as right as rain ! |
| 25 | The company , which employs 12 people , will continue to trade as normal as administrator Jeff Cawson , from accountants BDO Binder Hamlyn , in Newcastle , attempts to find a buyer for the business . |
| 26 | She was n't perfect ; she had a temper , and children who got in her way on bad days were liable to get clouted ; but she was as normal as daylight and , for all her temper , the nicest person Ruth knew . |
| 27 | ‘ But the bed and blankets , ’ I intervened ( Old Shallot being intent on delivering his pennysworth ! ) , ‘ would be as dry as tinder . ’ |
| 28 | High , lonely hills , where the wind and the sound carry and the ground 's as dry as straw in a barn . |
| 29 | I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm as dry as dust . |