Example sentences of "seemed as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every driver seemed as ill-tempered as the airline passengers he 'd left behind , his own complaining that his migraine would n't stop until the threatened storm broke . |
| 2 | The promises on human rights seemed as tenuous as the Declaration on Liberated Europe , issued at Yalta 30 years before , and it was difficult to reconcile the Helsinki pledge to refrain from interference in other countries ' affairs with the Brezhnev doctrine . |
| 3 | She seemed as unworried as the headmaster at the fact that the place was due to be consumed in hell-fire . |
| 4 | She took it all in good humour , though Stuart seemed as twitchy as a rabbit 's septum . |
| 5 | He seemed as tall as a mountain , and every one of his steps measured about ten metres . |
| 6 | The vicar who seemed as poor as a church mouse gave no clue to his wealth as he chatted happily to convicted robbers . |
| 7 | Neither economic incentives nor insecurity therefore provided a really effective general mechanism for keeping labour hard at work ; the former , because their scope was limited , the latter because much of it was or seemed as unavoidable as the weather . |
| 8 | Their colours and patterns seemed as fresh as the day they were made and she was amazed at their richness compared with the wartime materials she was used to . |
| 9 | She tried to lift her hand , but the knife now seemed as heavy as a sword . |
| 10 | Although Mungo guessed that he was probably no more than fourteen , he seemed as old as the oldest adult . |
| 11 | Amaranth 's eyes wandered : the hotel foyer was almost empty , and the only other couples seemed as old as the hills . |
| 12 | The trouble was that it seemed as likely as a lion apologising to a gazelle . |
| 13 | The cosy status quo seemed as secure as the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 14 | He seemed as tense as a newly released convict , and that tension was reflected in the percussive piano style with which he treated the opening up-beat R&B and country selections , including Mean Woman Blues and You Win Again . |
| 15 | But now it seemed as natural as the confluence of two rivers and needed no words at all . |