Example sentences of "high as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are as high as a 10-storey building . |
| 2 | Aunt Goldie points to a moon-faced infant in a perambulator as high as a royal coach . |
| 3 | As high as a 30 storey building , it then extends above a sea level , clearing the 100 year storm level and forms the base structure housing accommodation areas , power plants , processing equipment , helideck and other topside modules . |
| 4 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 5 | By 1970 the generosity of tax concessions for new investment was such that they wiped out the effect of corporation tax and rendered the post-tax rate of profit virtually as high as the pre-tax rate . |
| 6 | The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements . |
| 7 | The findings showed the Anglo-Saxon nave was as wide and as long and almost as high as the present one , which was built by the Normans . |
| 8 | But the findings showed the Anglo-Saxon nave was as wide and as long and almost as high as the present Norman one . |
| 9 | Breaking off a stout twig , he curled a foot under the window 's lower edge and lifted it as high as the rusty hinges would allow . |
| 10 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
| 11 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 12 | A minute later her head was as high as the tallest tree in the wood , and she was looking at a sea of green leaves . |
| 13 | Only in areas of very high unemployment was there any substantial proportion for whom the ending of temporary jobs was the reason for unemployment ( it was given by nearly 14 per cent of the sample in areas where unemployment was at least twice as high as the national average ) . |
| 14 | Indeed , 22.4 per cent of the migrants could be defined as return migrants ( Shaw , 1984 ) and although this is n't as high as the 30 to 40 per cent rates recorded in north Norway ( Nicholson , 1975 ) it is much higher than the 5.5 per cent found in northwest Ireland ( Foeken , 1980 ) , and very different from the situation in northern Scotland where Jones et al . |
| 15 | erm My cause for concern , and I think it 's one that 's been echoed in a number of places , is the still very high figure for food-poisoning outbreaks , for food-poisoning cases , erm you 'll see we 're not as high as the previous comparable half-year of last year , which was ninety-two , but that included the Keble outbreak , which you 're well aware of , but at thirty-two for Oxford for a half year , that 's a very high figure . |
| 16 | Interest rates had risen in recent months as high as an annualized rate of 1,200 per cent as banks struggled to retain their funds , and the move initially froze the savings of thousands of Argentinians and also affected major corporations . |
| 17 | If it goes as high as an additional half a million each year then the structural management fund will not last through the three years . |
| 18 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |