The phrase "a creature as the" is not correct and does not form a coherent expression in written English.
It is unclear and lacks context, making it difficult to determine when it could be used.
Example: "A creature as the one described in the legend is said to roam the forest at night."
Alternatives: "a being like the" or "a creature similar to the".
A spring run Atlantic salmon is as extraordinary and precious a creature as the Siberian tiger or the osprey (only one of which I am pleased to see on a riverbank).
Suddenly, with his archaic belief in both the value of public broadcasting and the inherent worth of the un-monetisable natural world, the venerable polymath himself is as rare a creature as the Galápagos tortoise, whose environment he strove to save, and one equally doomed to extinction.
(In his way, Mr. Crichton is as ruthless a creature as the raptors: he has picked clean the bones of his every idea, though he didn't write this third script.) Steven Spielberg didn't return as director, either, which may be why "Jurassic Park 3" is so short -- only 90 minutes.
"That anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus," wrote Marcel Proust, should not be astonishing to those in the know.
Dr. Giurfa said that the benefit of studying a creature as simple as the bee was in knowing that it did not take a complex neural network to distinguish objects.
Instead I see only a creature as still as the ceramic mermaid it leans against, save for tiny gills that seem to be gasping.
The Sea Turtle Conservancy has made a great deal of effort over the years to ban the hunting and killing of sea turtles and raise awareness so that people will understand that we cannot afford to lose a creature as beautiful as the sea turtle.
Benevolence, says Smith, may perhaps be the sole motive of the Deity, but "so imperfect a creature as man, the support of whose existence requires so many things external to him, must often act from many other motives" (p. 305).
But with its mix of politics and entertainment, George has always been an odd creature, as odd as the cover subject of the first issue: the model Cindy Crawford dressed like George Washington.
In scenario two, there never was such a creature as a Neanderthal, and the so-called fossils were put there by the Devil himself.
The dictionary describes such a creature as "mute and listless" with only "the semblance of life".
