Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long-term debts of around £150,000 continue to finger the back of the club 's neck as unpleasantly as a north-eastern sea fret . |
| 2 | I would make the most accom-plished tart , as well as Hero 's Muse , I thought , as I relieved his tension as expertly as a doctor lancing a boil . |
| 3 | ‘ If Pinder is to be believed , it was missing at twelve-thirty , ’ said Sergeant Bird , taking a seat as quietly as a man of his bulk could manage . |
| 4 | Its images unfold in my mind as effortlessly as a story riding on the voice of a parent , a voice so familiar it disappears , entering in the half-dark , soluble in dreams . |
| 5 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 6 | She had settled in Thrush Green as snugly as a bird in its nest , and so had Jeremy . |
| 7 | But Fleury knew that his life depended on not being shaken off and so he clung on with all his might , his legs gripping the sepoy 's waist as tight as a corset , his hands dragging on the two broken pieces of violin . |
| 8 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 9 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 10 | Melissa recalled Juliette 's words : ‘ He could slip through the forest as silently as a cat . ’ |
| 11 | One friend , who has a job as well as a family of five , has her widowed mother living round one corner and her mother-in-law round the other . |
| 12 | Making love , walking the dog or knocking a squash ball about will do the job as effectively as a stiff drink , and they are less likely to hasten your demise . |
| 13 | Louis sniffed into it , dabbing the end of his nose as precisely as a dentist drying a cavity . |
| 14 | She saw the cows between the posts , the sun throwing their shadows on the wall as carefully as a painter paints a beautiful king or queen . |
| 15 | She stared at it for a moment , her body feeling frozen , her heart as still as a stone in her chest . |
| 16 | The Leviathan was a ruthless and cruel creature , with ‘ a heart as hard as a millstone ’ , and it destroyed anything which came in its path . |
| 17 | An odd volume , acquired for a few shillings , tells its story as adequately as a complete text . |
| 18 | Running on a 33MHz 486 under SCO Unix , Windows appeared to be every bit as fast as a copy running in its native DOS environment . |
| 19 | Gooch watched Akram 's bowling as closely as a surgeon at the operating table , the ball flashing across him at an acute angle against the backdrop of a dramatic dark-blue sky . |
| 20 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 21 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
| 22 | If you can live with the slightly awkward depth adjuster , the motor/blade combination makes this a saw which will cut through hard and softwood as easily as a knife through butter . |
| 23 | Sophie was a small frail woman who moved about the lounge as silently as a cat , greeting everyone in whispered French . |
| 24 | He slipped into her squelching hole as easily as a knife into butter : and she moaned blissfully when she felt herself well and truly corked . |
| 25 | The wolf took it from his hand as delicately as a cat , and licked his palm . |
| 26 | He held my wrists in one hand as easily as a bunch of flowers and I was pinned beneath his bulk . |
| 27 | She watched his forearms , strong and muscular , sweating slightly , and those capable fingers that could wield a delicate scalpel as efficiently as a ten-ton tractor . |
| 28 | Murphy forgot to a stately and was off the box as nimbly as a boy in order to prevent his precious carriage being invaded by this horde in battered boots and smudged pinafores . |
| 29 | The path stretched from their current position , winding a little through the uneven clump of trees , to make its way as far as a bridge , before it dissolved into the distant shred of mist . |
| 30 | Executive controller for M & S Morrison Cherrie said ‘ Julie jumps at the drop of a hat as far as a job is concerned . |