Example sentences of "as strong as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you use 110 spring pads , the RR rear axle will fit ( it 's not as strong as a 110 ) and you will need to have a propshaft made up . |
| 2 | Tall , and as strong as a lion . |
| 3 | If the surface of thick glass can be got smooth and kept smooth it will be just as strong as a thin fibre . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The man in the notional training sequence I described ‘ led ’ his horse on an invisible bond as strong as a rope . |
| 6 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm as strong as a horse , you know that . |
| 8 | She 's as strong as a horse . |
| 9 | And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn . |
| 10 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward . |
| 14 | She was as strong as a little horse . |
| 15 | I 'm as strong as a horse . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox . |
| 19 | Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox . |
| 20 | Now he 's as strong as an ox . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | He 's as strong as an ox . ’ |
| 23 | Also , a damaged tendon is never quite as strong as an undamaged one . |
| 24 | ‘ A damaged tendon is never quite as strong as an undamaged one . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The closeness was as strong as the pull of their own lives ; they lost the pain of individuality within its protection . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I think we are at least as strong as the Oxford crew physically and we have more experience , though the ages of the crews are almost identical . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It may not be as strong as the main outside door . |