Example sentences of "heavy as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was as flat and heavy as a sheet of lead . |
| 2 | From time to time her voice trailed off and she became her grief , heavy as a stone . |
| 3 | He stood over Anton , big : his bloated belly , as heavy as a sumo wrestler . |
| 4 | She tried to lift her hand , but the knife now seemed as heavy as a sword . |
| 5 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 6 | Its feet were the size of dinner platters , and its tail was as long and heavy as an oak limb . |
| 7 | He was at least 6 foot 3 inches tall and massively built ; not muscular , like the skinhead , but as heavy as an elephant . |
| 8 | She felt as heavy as the smell of beer in the air , as crude as the wood of the tables , as cheap as the picture mirrors on the walls . |
| 9 | The more inglorious aspects of Morrison 's life and behaviour , and the undignified myth-making indulged in by his ‘ followers ’ are n't concealed , but then Jones does n't exactly run the hoary old rock conceit of romantic self-destruction out of town either : ‘ Humility was a trait which did n't sit well with Morrison ’ is about as heavy as the criticism gets . |
| 10 | The storage of grain or many bolts of cloth imposed loads upon the structures of these buildings almost as heavy as the machinery contained in the textile mills and therefore their construction had to be equally robust and similarly fireproof . |
| 11 | The rider is twice as heavy as the horse ’ ( Joseph 1976 ) . |
| 12 | Death said , in tones as deep and heavy as the slamming of leaden doors , far underground . |
| 13 | From the 18 possible B mesons they were able to find , the researchers have deduced a mass of 5270 MeV for the neutral B meson and 5270 MeV for the charged B — some 5.3 times as heavy as the proton . |