Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] big as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman has a talent as big as her shoulder muscles . |
| 2 | In his bedroom Raymond is torturing his electric guitar , which is plugged into an amplifier as big as an upended coffin , grinning fiendishly as he produces howls and wails of feedback . |
| 3 | She rummaged around in a handbag as big as my trumpet case and eventually found a length of till receipt from a grocery store . |
| 4 | The German skipper ascribed most of his problems to his team 's unfamiliarity with a boat as big as the 33ft ( 10.2m ) Farr MRX used . |
| 5 | Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her . |
| 6 | I really feel in a borough as big as Bromley , which is the biggest |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm amazed that a club as big as Manchester United can react in this way . |
| 8 | It is always nice to be linked with a club as big as they are . |
| 9 | ‘ You should n't be sitting on a breakthrough as big as this . ’ |
| 10 | She could still remember it all intensely : the swimming pool in which she had learnt to do a dog-paddle ; the ring game ; the endless stretch of blue ocean ; the vast liner as big as a city through which she and Pappy had wandered endlessly . |
| 11 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 12 | When the sixth failed , various members of Mr Yeltsin 's entourage gesticulated wildly as the limo , with a 7.7 litre V8 engine as big as that on a London bus , lurched backwards and forwards . |
| 13 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 14 | He deserves a medal as big as a frying pan . ’ |
| 15 | The name comes from the Greek for ‘ eye as big as the full moon ’ . |
| 16 | Good god there 's a mirror in the sitting room as big as that wall . |
| 17 | I never heard of a spaceship as big as this ! |
| 18 | An organisation as big as the police has to turn to scores of different agencies . |
| 19 | I saw a hole in one of his socks at the back as big as a potato , and offered to do some mending for him . ’ |
| 20 | In a constituency as big as this , it 's the only way for many people to meet the candidate . |
| 21 | Faith as big as this minuscule mustard seed that you ca n't see . |
| 22 | THE DETECTIVE : There 's a hole at the middle of this case as big as the hole in Lepine 's head . |
| 23 | would would also be wise for any new settlement which you chief specify , that any new settlement you may recommend should also include some provision for expansion land , and my point I think is that you could not divide a settlement as big as five thousand , I think it would be reasonable to say a new settlement make with a an eventual capacity of say three and a half thousand , that might be appropriate around Greater York . |
| 24 | Sensible , efficient , and a heart as big as a football . |
| 25 | Standards were high , as it was appreciated from the outset that it was not enough for such workers " to have a heart as big as a football and to be able to fingerspell and sign . " |
| 26 | In Colin Harvey you had a twinkle-toed midfielder with a heart as big as a lion 's . |
| 27 | He that boy has got a heart as big as a mountain I 'll tell ya , in those situations he will sling himself at anything . |
| 28 | Yes he Foyly , he 's got a heart as big as a lion and he 'll always do that , Foyly , whether he 's been injured or not , for you , and I 'm pleased he got the goals . |
| 29 | The iconography may be updated — with Punch , Harlequin , Perrault 's Cinderella , archetypal figures of immemorial imaginings replaced by newer , movie-bred cast of characters , Roger Rabbit , Indiana Jones , Disney 's Cinderella — but both theme park and funfair are designed to satisfy the childhood fantasy of a toy as big as the object of which it 's supposed to be the scale model . |
| 30 | At this remove , the whole incident seems insane , but at the time it only proved once again what any driver has always known , that the constructors as a class are hard-nosed men with egos every bit as big as their drivers ' and that there is n't enough concern among them for driver welfare or safety to fuel a heart for a minute . |