Example sentences of "and [adj] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was such quiet authority in his deep voice that she nodded , instinctively obeying the command , remaining stiff and unfeeling as she watched him go back inside . |
| 2 | They come across as the same songs although they do n't sound as huge and magnificent and lush as they do on the record . |
| 3 | So it may be the Regional Association or perhaps the local estuary er Sailing Association is first contacted and what will happen er when one is contacted is that you will come into contact with environmentalists and conservationists and not all environmentalists and conservationists are quite as af affable and conciliatory as I am , some can be quite confrontational and therefore there will be the need for a considerable amount of lip biting and self restraint . |
| 4 | But this annual nerve-shredder , as remorseless and cruel as it is exhilarating , had already struck . |
| 5 | I did that on the basis that it is very difficult to scrutinise the Bill 's Scottish aspects , complicated and far-reaching as they are , as they impact on a very distinct and separate local government tradition and system within the framework of United Kingdom legislation . |
| 6 | There was a satellite dish out in the grounds , and she was keen to keep up her French and Spanish as they had improved no end since she had begun working in Peter 's cosmopolitan little shop at the resort . |
| 7 | Charles ordered the beheading of the entire company , bound and helpless as they were . |
| 8 | She had never experienced anything like it , instant , total domination of the senses , and she was lost and helpless as she watched the dark head bend , the taut face come closer . |
| 9 | No I , no , I mean you really respond very well , that Tchaikovsky was lovely , I understand at the present you ca n't do as much and admirable as you 're still doing . |
| 10 | His tone had become cynical and mocking as he went on , ‘ Now I do n't suppose Joanna will want to continue working here if you leave . |
| 11 | The ‘ first night ’ was always a little tense and emotional as we saw hundreds come forward at the end of the service to commit their lives to Christ . |
| 12 | All of us get elated and emotional as we stroll through a pine grove on a hot summer day when the old trees fill the air with their pungent fragrance . |
| 13 | And unbelievable as it may seem the champions have a meagre nine points to show for their labours following trouncings by Willowfield and Ballymena . |
| 14 | Addressing a conference in London she said that all too often , families were left isolated drained and exhausted as they helped to rebuild a shattered life . |
| 15 | We 'll see if we ca n't catch sight of Mullach and Lionan as they head back north . |
| 16 | I swore my pupils would never be restricted and repressed as I had been . |
| 17 | His body was not as solid and stable as it should be and he was frequently off-line by a few degrees . |
| 18 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 19 | Kate 's eyes were hard and dry as she watched the bitter man sitting opposite her . |
| 20 | I think basically , if you 've got good colour sense you 're home and dry as I have said many times , it does n't matter how you put it together , but if the colours are superb , it 's going to look good . |
| 21 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 22 | He could feel the perspiration stinging his eyes , and his hands became wet and clammy as he strode on . |
| 23 | Small and weak as I was , I stared firmly back at him . |
| 24 | When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her . |
| 25 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 26 | Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training . |
| 27 | She grew more and more tired and depressed as she walked the fifteen miles back to Flintcomb-Ash , where only hard work awaited her . |
| 28 | For her own part , Theodora could n't really see Amy , small and frail as she was , physically assaulting anyone , not so as to kill them . |
| 29 | Yet she 'd been prepared to chance it , alone and pregnant as she was . |
| 30 | Ellen Barkin ( small of eye and thin of lip ) , Jamie Lee Curtis ( bright-eyed but androgynous ) , Anjelica Huston ( body to die for — unforgiving face ) , Bette Midler ( where do I begin ? ) uncurled themselves across screens from LA to Llandudno , playing women who were as sexy and salacious as they were ballsy and bloody-minded . |