Example sentences of "high as [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Drifts as high as a house Jamie said . ’
2 as high as a kite radio , all
3 as high as a kite radio , all
4 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 .
5 In this study , the glutamate/GABA ratio is raised in the epileptogenic hippocampus , particularly in the postseizure period when glutamate remains high as the GABA concentration returns to normal , which may cause the hippocampal damage characteristic of temporal lobe epilepsy , since a similar pattern is produced in normal animals by stimulation of excitatory input to the hippocampus .
6 I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly .
7 A sweet , deep pain closed about his manhood , and it was then that desire rocketed out of control , and he felt himself become as hard and as high as the beech trees that stood sentinel to Tara 's western avenue …
8 in fact , in some cases fixed costs can enable the established firm to price as high as the monopoly level yet induce no entry — what Bain called " blockaded entry " ( see Dixit , 1979 ) .
9 Local physician Lia Giraldo da Silva Augusto says the mortality rate of young adults is as high as the infant mortality rate , which is 65 per 1,000 .
10 Heavy posts , reeking of creosote and paint , towered up as high as the holly trees in the hedge , and the board they carried threw a long shadow across the top of the field .
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