Example sentences of "strong as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closeness was as strong as the pull of their own lives ; they lost the pain of individuality within its protection . |
| 2 | The roof , however , was only six years old and a structural analysis subsequently carried out by a structural engineer showed that not only was it impossible for that roof to slip , but furthermore it was twice as strong as the Building Regulations required . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Smith did not say how he would meet manifesto commitments without extra borrowing or taxes if growth were not as strong as the Chancellor had forecast . |
| 5 | ‘ These dogs are not as strong as the pit bull terrier but they have immense strength all the same . |
| 6 | ‘ There was this one scene where Dustin first did it by coming on very strong as the scene opened and then gradually bringing things down until everything was just suggested by innuendo and gestures . |
| 7 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 8 | She had always been as strong as the lioness Candy would insist on comparing her to . |
| 9 | It 's not as strong as the Earth 's ; the Earth is heavier . |
| 10 | Despite its distracting romantic plot , this was campaigning cinema which put a case for the nationalization of the mines as strong as the argument presented in The Citadel for a National Health Service . |
| 11 | To meet force with force is successful only if the defender is as strong as the attacker . |