Example sentences of "big [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) . |
| 2 | Your bum 's hardly bigger than a fist . |
| 3 | If a work is bigger than a man , he wrote , it can mean either that it is trying to surpass man or that it is not afraid of being looked at . |
| 4 | What does it mean , standing there in the empty room , bigger than a man ? |
| 5 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 6 | He could also see the driver of the sledge-a huge figure , much bigger than a man . |
| 7 | ‘ He was huge , much bigger than a man . |
| 8 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 9 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 10 | The thing was gleaming red , bigger than a tractor ought to be in her opinion , with bigger front wheels than expected , and smaller back . |
| 11 | It has been essential to use light tackle and if he tries a hook any bigger than a size 22 , the fish wo n't even look at the bait . |
| 12 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 13 | The incredible ruined cities , many more of which still remain to be discovered in the jungle areas , are one fascination , if only to speculate as to how they were built in a civilisation which had no beast of burden bigger than a llama , no wheels , and no cutting edge except stone . |
| 14 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 15 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 16 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 17 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 18 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 19 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 20 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 21 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 22 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 23 | He 's got a gob big as a wa , bigger than a whale ! |
| 24 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |
| 26 | The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there . |
| 27 | Not like a village it 's a parish it 's a lot bigger than a village |
| 28 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 29 | ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’ |
| 30 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |