Example sentences of "powerful as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't expect it to be as powerful as a conventional grill though , and it 's likely to operate only with the door closed . |
| 2 | Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself . |
| 3 | I would remember , against my will , the fragrance of coffee and hot bread , the energy that had possessed me so short a time ago , when I had felt supple as an eel , as powerful as a salmon , as sure and quiet and graceful as an owl . |
| 4 | Nothing is as powerful as a two-way dialogue , the proposition countered by the ‘ Yes , but … ’ which in turn can be satisfactorily answered by the proposer . |
| 5 | Bolivia had condemned Cardoen 's testing in October of two fuel air explosive bombs , each allegedly as powerful as a tactical nuclear weapon . |
| 6 | Though this technique is not as powerful as the orthodox roundhouse kick , its sheer technical brilliance clinches a full point . |
| 7 | Hammersmith Road and its schlock architecture is proof that conservationists are not as powerful as the architectural profession likes to believe . |
| 8 | The AFBD has not been treated with the seriousness it deserves by bodies as powerful as the London International Financial Futures Exchange . |
| 9 | Admittedly , dealing with a woman as dominating as Catherine de Medici and a family as powerful as the Guises , which all three had to do , would have put strains on personalities far stronger than Francis II , Charles IX and Henri III ; but the fact remains that while , unlike Mary , they did not show indifference to their kingdom , they were exactly like her in failing to assert their control of it . |
| 10 | The thermonuclear ( hydrogen bomb ) warhead on each cruise missile is 10 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 . |
| 11 | Regardless of their sacerdotal status they , too , had to provide sufficient funds for their endowment but , as they were often as wealthy and powerful as the nobility , this was no hardship . |
| 12 | It 's more powerful than the regular injection models , but not quite as powerful as the full-blown turbos . |
| 13 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |
| 14 | They say he 's as powerful as the President in Washington . |
| 15 | Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude . |
| 16 | It is very luminous — at least 50000 times as powerful as the Sun , and therefore much superior to Betelgeux , though it is much further away ( over 1500 light-years ) . |
| 17 | Zeta Persei is very luminous and remote ( over 15000 times as powerful as the Sun ) . |
| 18 | This analysis could be said to be self-serving , yet it is not without justification ; the president was never as powerful as the critics suggested . |
| 19 | Overall it is a fine and often atmospheric performance , though not quite as bleak and powerful as the Beecham ( EMI and Koch Legacy , 3/92 ) . |
| 20 | The words on the page constitute a lifeless text until the poem is evoked ( literally , ‘ called forth ’ ) by the reader , who is given an autonomy as powerful as the writer 's when she gets deep into a text , using all her mental , emotional and physical experiences — and makes a poem of it : evokes it . |
| 21 | Perhaps in the next decade the projective zone will be recognised to be a neural processing tool as powerful as the neuron 's receptive field and trigger feature . |
| 22 | But she interrupted him softly , her words gentle and her spirit as powerful as the strongest wind . |
| 23 | Instinctively Creggan crept closer to Minch , as did Kraal on the far side of her , trying to catch her whispered words , which seemed to drift as slow and powerful as the mist into which she spoke them . |
| 24 | However , at 150W it was n't as powerful as the others I tried . ’ |
| 25 | When ordinary men and women are fired by the Spirit to bear witness to ‘ a Lord who pardons and loves , a Lord who is just as powerful as the landowners , the mine-managers or the trade union secretaries , because he is God , a God who desires to be called Father , and who treats the most wretched of men as his son ’ ( d'Epinay ) then people will sit up and take notice . |
| 26 | The combined cooling effect is estimated as being only about one-fifth as powerful as the overall warming caused by greenhouse gases . |
| 27 | You 've no choice , you 're part of the international environment and you operate in that and you ca n't control , as I 've said before , er even if you 're as powerful as the United States , you ca n't control that environment and you do n't claim to control that environment in the same way that you claim to control your domestic environment . |