Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as [art] man " in BNC.

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1 The people who heard the rumour and did not take any action are as guilty as the man who used the clenbuteriol .
2 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 .
3 They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man .
4 A termite fortress , walled , buttressed and castellated , may contain ten tons of mud and stand three or four times as tall as a man .
5 The engine rooms lay astern and in the bows , beneath awnings , were wheels as tall as a man .
6 A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay .
7 She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man .
8 ‘ You 're not as old as the man who had me first . ’
9 Beyond , surrounding a thicket of rushes , stood an enclosure of posts and rails half as high as a man .
10 The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea .
11 Not nearly as good-looking as the man sitting right next to her .
12 She 's a beautiful woman , but she can be as hard as a man .
13 He looked as tired as a man could be and still stand upright .
14 Perhaps an organism as complex as a man could never be wholly impervious to the ravages of time .
15 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 ) .
16 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 .
17 ‘ 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 .
18 Above all , she felt guilty that she had persuaded Bill , who looked as happy as a man with a toothache , to make an appearance .
19 Wicked episodes were often brought to my attention , but nothing either then or since has been as evil as the man Beck .
20 A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love .
21 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 .
22 There are places roped with cablecoil guts as thick as a man , as fine as a whisker ; a rumbling kingdom .
23 It grows to a metre and a half in length and as thick as a man 's arm .
24 The rocking stopped , the chair was suddenly still , as motionless as the man who sat inside it .
25 He was walking nearly as zombie-like as the man with the barrow .
26 As harmless as the man himself .
27 In fact he was as sharp as a man half his age .
28 So what — you 're as young as the man you feel .
29 Though he was n't , of course , as attractive as the man she truly loved , Hugh Despoins .
30 Oh , I am as bad as the man who ravished you . ’
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