Example sentences of "as [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resenting this , and probably thinking that the requirement would be as short-lived as the fortunes of war , many of the peasants took derisive and ribald names . |
| 2 | " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . " |
| 3 | He was as rooted as the policemen , as the people in the cars , as Steve and Mr Chan . |
| 4 | However , the lyrics , some of which are spoken by a seven-year-old , are annoyingly political and can be as unbelievable as the band 's promotional literature . |
| 5 | Gambon relishes the Mafia boss routine and the scene where he gives Luciano his famous scar is somewhat offputting — but not as stomach-turning as the sight of a mad dog rival of Lucky 's biting off a hoodlum 's nose , then cutting out another 's tongue . |
| 6 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
| 7 | He had been prosperous after the seige of Arcot ; after Plassey the new Nawab gave him £234,000 in cash and the right to land rents of £27,000 a year , which made him as rich as a great territorial magnate like the Duke of Newcastle . |
| 8 | His breath smelt as rich as a wine press . |
| 9 | Bargain set menus change with the market and are the best choice : Connaught-trained chef whisks up ultra-light leek terrine layered like lasagne , heaps of appley duck with green pasta tower , and neatly balanced fish casserole a la Dieppoise ; there 's also a meaty crab tart ( £3.95 ) and a choc pave as rich as the neighbourhood . |
| 10 | Bream do not transfer successfully even to a water equally as rich as the one they came from . |
| 11 | Independent craftsmen and small tradesmen formed a middling group , and at the top of urban society were the merchants who were as rich as the rural gentry . |
| 12 | PENNED-IN by steel barriers between a noisy crowd of gay liberationists and the lonely emissary of the oppressed African Dinkas , few of the street-corner causes besieging this week 's conference seem as hopeless as the campaign for Labour to organise in Ulster . |
| 13 | The duty to protest is as undeniable as the need . |
| 14 | Plus they rely far too heavily on Chad Gracey 's bionic drumming to get them noticed , the tinny snare effect soon becoming as annoying as a catfight underneath your window at 3.00am . |
| 15 | Not a gentle kiss , nor yet as punishing as the last one he had given her in her room , but it was urgent and demanding and was all the encouragement she needed . |
| 16 | The haul up from there to the top of the highest bank was several hundred feet of deep heather , pollen-dusty and honey-scented , but as friendly as a hedgehog for a flea . |
| 17 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
| 18 | In some areas you 're as blinkered as a donkey . |
| 19 | As the little girl clambered up , as agile as a monkey , Shiona started to pull her own pyjamas from the bag . |
| 20 | Ruth was as agile as a dolphin in the water and she was away from him before he had a chance to stop her . |
| 21 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 22 | In every isolated basin of the plateau the life led by the common people day after day was as monotonous as the climate and the landscape ; and everything that deviated from the ordinary , everything strange or unforeseen , was regarded as supernatural . |
| 23 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
| 24 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 25 | the stuff he uses is ve is n't as caustic as the stuff we |
| 26 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 27 | In this way , in as little as a hundred years , Africa 's doubts about herself — now so prevalent — may finally be removed . |
| 28 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 29 | If the hole is a shallow one , it could be as little as a few inches beneath the surface . |
| 30 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |