Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 2 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 3 | A termite fortress , walled , buttressed and castellated , may contain ten tons of mud and stand three or four times as tall as a man . |
| 4 | The engine rooms lay astern and in the bows , beneath awnings , were wheels as tall as a man . |
| 5 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |
| 6 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 7 | Beyond , surrounding a thicket of rushes , stood an enclosure of posts and rails half as high as a man . |
| 8 | The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea . |
| 9 | And getting nearly as much as a man got in some . |
| 10 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 11 | She 's a beautiful woman , but she can be as hard as a man . |
| 12 | He looked as tired as a man could be and still stand upright . |
| 13 | Perhaps an organism as complex as a man could never be wholly impervious to the ravages of time . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Above all , she felt guilty that she had persuaded Bill , who looked as happy as a man with a toothache , to make an appearance . |
| 17 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are places roped with cablecoil guts as thick as a man , as fine as a whisker ; a rumbling kingdom . |
| 20 | It grows to a metre and a half in length and as thick as a man 's arm . |
| 21 | In fact he was as sharp as a man half his age . |