Example sentences of "[noun] big [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't pull the wool tight — leave loops between each stitch big enough to put your little finger into . |
| 2 | The Dean and his pet labrador are both depicted wearing dog collars ; the bursar , with ears big enough to flap over to Christ Church , is seen tightly clenching two money bags . |
| 3 | ALEX FERGUSON took a swipe at Leeds last night as he insisted that Manchester United are the only club big enough to deal with the ego of Eric Cantona . |
| 4 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 5 | I drove the girls around the suburbs until we found a newsagent big enough to sell maps and stuffed behind a wad of yellowing unfunny birthday cards , I found an Ordnance Survey map of the Blackberry Hill region . |
| 6 | ‘ That is easy — make the arch in the shape of a bent tree trunk , and make holes in the branches big enough to place pots of water , to make the flowers stay fresh for longer . ’ |
| 7 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 8 | A poor peasant , who made up seventy percent of the population , is a peasant who does n't have a plot big enough to support himself and his family . |
| 9 | But for the first time in his eight months in office , Mr Kaifu now has a chance of pulling off a coup big enough to ensure his survival as prime minister . |
| 10 | " International bird conservation has until now been rather disjointed with no single organisation big enough to tackle the problem alone . |
| 11 | AN earthquake big enough to destroy a city rocked northern Australia last night . |
| 12 | It may therefore be that while a perfectly competitive market composed of producers big enough to benefit fully from economies of scale would be the ideal , something like the existing state of affairs , particularly against a background of merger control and regulation of anti-competitive practices , is the best realisable outcome . |
| 13 | The administrator took us one floor up in a lift big enough to ferry a helicopter to the roof . |
| 14 | I knew it was 2.06 a.m. because the bedside clock told me so in orange digits big enough to divert aircraft if the curtains had been open . |
| 15 | He prophesied that there was no man or woman big enough to stand forever in the way of the Labour Party achieving their aims . |
| 16 | Further down the alleyway the wood had shrunk in a fence leaving a knot-hole big enough to see through . |
| 17 | Too many top managers leave after a strategy has failed , clutching pay-offs big enough to guarantee their family 's security for several generations . |
| 18 | Britain 's civil nuclear power programme is said to have produced a stockpile of plutonium big enough to make 14 000 nuclear warheads . |
| 19 | There is n't a hole big enough to get through . |
| 20 | Intent now on a sharpish exit he banged with his helmet on the canopy until he had made a hole big enough to climb through . |
| 21 | Because Jo 's father was English and Lorna Lewis gave many interviews explaining that the secret of keeping a marriage together in Hollywood was to make sure your husband was the king of his own home , they had chosen a house built in English baronial style , with walls mantled with ivy , black exposed timbers , fireplaces big enough to hold a conference in and small diamond-paned windows through which the sun streamed defiantly in brilliant narrow shafts . |
| 22 | ‘ I know no man big enough to fill it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Look , Tel , here in the City it 's a very nice status symbol and a fine example of German craftsmanship , but in Brixton its a Bob and therefore a legitimate target for any kid big enough to keep a tyre wrench in his nappy . ’ |
| 24 | Further enhancements could include a case big enough to hold various components of the system like the power supply unit and Microdrive interface or other add-ons . |
| 25 | Bigger fish might indeed be caught , but in the meantime they have grown into killer sharks with teeth big enough to bite through any net we might attempt to throw over them . |
| 26 | The national park proposed for the Cairngorms , for example , covers an area of land big enough to include not only the skiing at Cairngorm , but also that at the Lecht and Glenshee as well . |
| 27 | Murray 's assured introduction to league football further expands a Rangers squad big enough to handle the loss of John Brown and Trevor Steven at the weekend through suspension and injury . |
| 28 | Gambon , 51 , is one of the few actors big enough to play the mountainous Maxwell . |
| 29 | Pest Control branches were scoured for a bubble big enough to get the van into , and the London East fumigators — Brian Bacon , Ian Buchan and Terry Hart carried out a successful fumigation . |
| 30 | and a balcony big enough to fit out maybe with a table and a parasol . |