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

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1 I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall .
2 The man in the notional training sequence I described ‘ led ’ his horse on an invisible bond as strong as a rope .
3 The African is as strong as a ploughox , each man can do the work in this clime of two or three of men like us .
4 This trowel is every bit as strong as a knife or bayonet , and will easily prize up any large stones ( I have done this often , even in rock-hard clay ) .
5 She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man .
6 The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward .
7 And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn .
8 ‘ I 'm as strong as a horse , you know that .
9 She 's as strong as a horse .
10 I 'm as strong as a horse .
11 Tall , and as strong as a lion .
12 For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness .
13 George was a quick thinker so always did the introducing and all of the talking , but George did not talk about himself — he told of how Lennie was as strong as a bull and how he could buck barley all day .
14 The voice belonged to the ‘ Trog ’ , a short , thick-set man who resembled a character of the Stone Age and was as strong as an ox .
15 She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox .
16 Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox .
17 Now he 's as strong as an ox .
18 Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) .
19 He 's as strong as an ox . ’
20 Mr Smith did not say how he would meet manifesto commitments without extra borrowing or taxes if growth were not as strong as the Chancellor had forecast .
21 ‘ These dogs are not as strong as the pit bull terrier but they have immense strength all the same .
22 Privately , not all of Poland 's Communist leaders believe the pro-democracy forces at the Party 's local level to be as strong as the survey indicated .
23 The closeness was as strong as the pull of their own lives ; they lost the pain of individuality within its protection .
24 The roof , however , was only six years old and a structural analysis subsequently carried out by a structural engineer showed that not only was it impossible for that roof to slip , but furthermore it was twice as strong as the Building Regulations required .
25 Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others .
26 It 's not as strong as the Earth 's ; the Earth is heavier .
27 To meet force with force is successful only if the defender is as strong as the attacker .
28 Despite its distracting romantic plot , this was campaigning cinema which put a case for the nationalization of the mines as strong as the argument presented in The Citadel for a National Health Service .
29 She had always been as strong as the lioness Candy would insist on comparing her to .
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