Example sentences of "strong as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The NZRFU should accept the fact that such expeditions should be one-test tours , with the three previous Saturday matches against opposition which should become stronger as the test approaches .
2 Farwaggi , his Arab provenance showing in the bluish ( Camus-esque , thinks Letterman ) stubble which grows stronger as the day progresses , a gentle mycological stain spreading on his eager , almost good-looking face , spends all day on the phone either ordering variations on the club 's menus or rushing to and from the fax office .
3 Partisan influences were strong and became stronger as the election approached .
4 The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger as the century wore to its close .
5 The state apparatus is getting stronger as the economy is transformed by scientific and technological developments , as planning becomes more complex and as society generally becomes more educated .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 The man in the notional training sequence I described ‘ led ’ his horse on an invisible bond as strong as a rope .
9 And if all these should flicker out like candles , still his young , lusty brother Edmund , strong as a stag , and ripe for marriage , capable of getting more sons , more Mortimers to carry on the line and the claim to eternity .
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 When she walked with Gran , she could feel the trembling through every limb and felt glad to be young and strong as a tree .
13 ‘ In Denmark we say that aquavit is strong as a Viking , fiery as a lover , cold as an iceberg and fresh as a virgin .
14 She was a little woman , not much taller than Carrie , but she seemed strong as a railway porter , carrying their cases as if they weighed nothing .
15 The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward .
16 Tall , and as strong as a lion .
17 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 .
18 Young and strong as a bull as he was , the superior odds were beginning to tell .
19 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 .
20 And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn .
21 Go on , Hepzibah , I 'm strong as a horse now and I could do with some air . ’
22 ‘ I 'm as strong as a horse , you know that .
23 She 's as strong as a horse .
24 I 'm as strong as a horse .
25 ‘ Rubbish , you 're strong as a harse , I tell you ! ’
26 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 .
27 She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox .
28 Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox .
29 Now he 's as strong as an ox .
30 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 ) .
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