Example sentences of "big [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably . |
| 2 | There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through . |
| 3 | Six feet down , there is a huge circular cellar , ten or twelve feet across and two feet or so high , quite big enough for a man to crawl into . |
| 4 | If you can pull them out you can make a hole big enough for a man to get inside . |
| 5 | The temperature dependence of η can normally be expressed in the form where A is a constant and ΔE D represents the activation energy required to create a hole big enough for a molecule to translate or ‘ jump ’ into during flow . |
| 6 | The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on . |
| 7 | When all the plates were riveted together , the structure would form a square tube fourteen feet wide and about twenty-five feet high overall — big enough for a train to pass through . |
| 8 | They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped . |