Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not nearly as good-looking as the man sitting right next to her . |
| 2 | Beyond , surrounding a thicket of rushes , stood an enclosure of posts and rails half as high as a man . |
| 3 | Jutting out of it were a series of tall posts , high as a man , and attacking them were a score of figures whilst thirty others looked on , wooden swords in their hands , and three Myrcans directed the whole group . |
| 4 | The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're not as old as the man who had me first . ’ |
| 6 | She 's a beautiful woman , but she can be as hard as a man . |
| 7 | A fully grown woman , the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man 's . |
| 8 | He looked as tired as a man could be and still stand upright . |
| 9 | It was therefore greatly in the masters " interests to insist that there was " no point " in the women learning the later skills ( because they were not strong enough , because they would leave the trade early , because they would " never be as good as a man " and so on ) . |
| 10 | This discourse of ‘ as good as a man ’ was to recur frequently in interviews with the women ; certainly there were some schools which had taught their pupils to think in those terms . |
| 11 | ‘ The deputy tries to prove to his manager that he is as good as the man he is replacing , ’ said Broos , doubtless applying that theory to all of Rangers ' outfield worries . |
| 12 | Perhaps an organism as complex as a man could never be wholly impervious to the ravages of time . |
| 13 | The group informally known as labyrinthodonts ( from their characteristic labyrinth-ridged teeth ) included some impressive animals almost as long as a man : perhaps the alligators of the time . |
| 14 | Black as night , with flaming red eyes and tusks as long as a man 's arm , the Erymanthian Boar had killed many people . |
| 15 | By the central pole stood a great oaken chest , three feet high and as long as a man . |
| 16 | As long as a man was unfree , he had no access to the royal courts , but could plead only in his lord 's court . |
| 17 | But a marriage could be smooth and peaceful , and many were , as long as the man carried out his duties towards his wife and a woman was submissive to her husband . |
| 18 | Her mind was open as long as the man had great quality ; she saw him as an explorer possibly , or an English statesman . |
| 19 | Above all , she felt guilty that she had persuaded Bill , who looked as happy as a man with a toothache , to make an appearance . |
| 20 | Wicked episodes were often brought to my attention , but nothing either then or since has been as evil as the man Beck . |
| 21 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 22 | Admitting that to someone as detached and uninterested as the man standing in front of the fireplace was going to take all the courage she had … |
| 23 | Pepsis , a giant among wasps with a six-inch wingspan , lives in South America and grapples with bird-eating spiders as big as a man 's hand . |
| 24 | There are places roped with cablecoil guts as thick as a man , as fine as a whisker ; a rumbling kingdom . |
| 25 | It grows to a metre and a half in length and as thick as a man 's arm . |
| 26 | The rocking stopped , the chair was suddenly still , as motionless as the man who sat inside it . |
| 27 | He was walking nearly as zombie-like as the man with the barrow . |
| 28 | So what — you 're as young as the man you feel . |
| 29 | As harmless as the man himself . |
| 30 | In fact he was as sharp as a man half his age . |