Example sentences of "be as strong [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always been as strong as the lioness Candy would insist on comparing her to . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm as strong as a horse , you know that . |
| 3 | I 'm as strong as a horse . |
| 4 | Privately , not all of Poland 's Communist leaders believe the pro-democracy forces at the Party 's local level to be as strong as the survey indicated . |
| 5 | The African is as strong as a ploughox , each man can do the work in this clime of two or three of men like us . |
| 6 | To meet force with force is successful only if the defender is as strong as the attacker . |
| 7 | She 's as strong as a horse . |
| 8 | Now he 's as strong as an ox . |
| 9 | He 's as strong as an ox . ’ |
| 10 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 11 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 12 | The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward . |
| 13 | And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn . |
| 14 | George was a quick thinker so always did the introducing and all of the talking , but George did not talk about himself — he told of how Lennie was as strong as a bull and how he could buck barley all day . |
| 15 | The closeness was as strong as the pull of their own lives ; they lost the pain of individuality within its protection . |
| 16 | The voice belonged to the ‘ Trog ’ , a short , thick-set man who resembled a character of the Stone Age and was as strong as an ox . |
| 17 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |