Example sentences of "strong as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The man in the notional training sequence I described ‘ led ’ his horse on an invisible bond as strong as a rope . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 6 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 7 | When she walked with Gran , she could feel the trembling through every limb and felt glad to be young and strong as a tree . |
| 8 | ‘ In Denmark we say that aquavit is strong as a Viking , fiery as a lover , cold as an iceberg and fresh as a virgin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward . |
| 11 | Tall , and as strong as a lion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Young and strong as a bull as he was , the superior odds were beginning to tell . |
| 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 | And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn . |
| 16 | Go on , Hepzibah , I 'm strong as a horse now and I could do with some air . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm as strong as a horse , you know that . |
| 18 | She 's as strong as a horse . |
| 19 | I 'm as strong as a horse . |
| 20 | ‘ Rubbish , you 're strong as a harse , I tell you ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox . |
| 23 | Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox . |
| 24 | Now he 's as strong as an ox . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | He 's as strong as an ox . ’ |
| 27 | She was an enormous woman , strong as an elephant , well-built to deal with troublesome customers at the inn , ‘ and maybe to help the Captain if he gets into trouble , ’ thought Tom . |
| 28 | The closeness was as strong as the pull of their own lives ; they lost the pain of individuality within its protection . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |