Example sentences of "[adv] strong as a " in BNC.
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1 | If you use 110 spring pads , the RR rear axle will fit ( it 's not as strong as a 110 ) and you will need to have a propshaft made up . |
2 | Tall , and as strong as a lion . |
3 | If the surface of thick glass can be got smooth and kept smooth it will be just as strong as a thin fibre . |
4 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
5 | The man in the notional training sequence I described ‘ led ’ his horse on an invisible bond as strong as a rope . |
6 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
7 | ‘ I 'm as strong as a horse , you know that . |
8 | She 's as strong as a horse . |
9 | And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn . |
10 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | This trowel is every bit as strong as a knife or bayonet , and will easily prize up any large stones ( I have done this often , even in rock-hard clay ) . |
13 | The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward . |
14 | She was as strong as a little horse . |
15 | I 'm as strong as a horse . |
16 | 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 . |