Example sentences of "as high as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While at present returns are not as high as a year ago , they are still relatively attractive . ’ |
| 2 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 3 | Beyond , surrounding a thicket of rushes , stood an enclosure of posts and rails half as high as a man . |
| 4 | The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea . |
| 5 | I never seen a Christmas tree so big — it 's as high as a house . |
| 6 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 7 | There was a terrible wind blowing as well , sheeting across the plateau , piling the snow into drifts as high as a house . |
| 8 | Drifts as high as a house Jamie said . ’ |
| 9 | Rives had everything , including immense strength , whereas Jones is hugely athletic and can jump as high as a guy six inches taller than himself . |
| 10 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 11 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 12 | The three basic methods are gas and air , which many had used , some so enthusiastically that they ended up either very sleepy , or as one said , " as high as a kite " . |
| 13 | Well you 're either sort of scraping off the ceiling cos you 're as high as a kite |
| 14 | Suddenly flying as high as a kite , she could n't resist the tiny gibe . |
| 15 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 16 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 17 | Jekub 's back wheels were nearly as high as a human . |
| 18 | No hedges , and peas as high as an elephant 's eye . ’ |
| 19 | As high as an elephant 's eye ? |
| 20 | In Brisbane where 300,000 people packed together in the city centre , hysteria ran as high as the baking 95 degree temperature . |
| 21 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 22 | Her mind leapt as high as the moon — somehow she knew the seal could answer her heart 's desire — but how could she make it happen ? |
| 23 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 24 | The first edition , dated 1796 , apparently contained the notorious instruction , in the treatment of ‘ staggers ’ , of having the ‘ hair clipped off the pasterns as high as the fetlock , and boiling water poured on the part twice a day ’ . |
| 25 | I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly . |
| 26 | The procession of raised rook and chicken pies , with their intricate decorations , that made its appearance in the kitchen raised their expectations as high as the pie coffins , as did the jellies vanishing into the larders , and sorbets into the refrigerators . |
| 27 | The incidence of severe acute renal failure in the community is at least twice as high as the incidence reported from renal unit based studies . |
| 28 | Thus the Newsom Report , which examined secondary schooling for children of average or less than average ability , concluded that the proportion of schools in slum areas which were seriously inadequate was twice as high as the proportion of all schools in the sample . |
| 29 | ‘ If I had my way , I would burn the entire place to the ground and hang Fitzosbert on a scaffold as high as the sky . |
| 30 | Durance was weary of both of them but the price of their silence was as high as the price of Sabine Jourdain 's . |