Example sentences of "is [prep] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Steve Lavalle is about as spiritual as a traffic bollard , and four times less intelligent — and you know it . ’ |
| 2 | Whatever the buying power of the greenback elsewhere , to Lloyds Bank in London it is about as useful as a Russian rouble , an Indian rupee or a Mexican peso . |
| 3 | A Conservative Club is about as probable as a solid gold statue of Sir Ian MacGregor . |
| 4 | Kiss is about as valid as a football game ; it 's a release , a chance for people to forget about their problems for a couple of hours , get together in some celebration and loose off some pent-up energy . |
| 5 | If this should prove genuine , it is about as welcome as a High Court summons — another document I expect hourly unless the Bradford branch of the Inland Revenue adopts a more compassionate attitude to its clients . ’ |
| 6 | It used to be possible to obtain second-hand telescopes at low cost , but by now a really good , cheap second-hand telescope is about as common as a great auk . |
| 7 | Alright , now , whether there is a perverse supply response is , is an empirical question erm , and it 's generally observed that perverse supply response is about as common as a that we looked at in demand analysis . |
| 8 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 9 | It is about as big as a fist , and bound securely with black gaffer tape . |
| 10 | The beast is about as big as a sheep and is described as : ‘ A freak of nature . |
| 11 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |