Example sentences of "big as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the breakwater the waves were getting bigger as the Pirate effed and cee-ed , bent over the uncovered inboard engine . |
| 2 | The potential computing power gets ever bigger as the universe rushes towards the omega point . |
| 3 | THE DETECTIVE : There 's a hole at the middle of this case as big as the hole in Lepine 's head . |
| 4 | Looking over to the block of flats opposite , I can see a window with a dark , damp patch underneath it as big as the window itself : it was n't raining , but somehow it was wet . |
| 5 | And a heart is only as big as the love it holds : |
| 6 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 7 | He went down the airless corridor to his Boss 's office , said hello to the secretary , and walked into the large oak-panelled room which was as big as the lobby of many a sizeable hotel . |
| 8 | The donkey was as big as the ox and its ears were short like a pony 's . |
| 9 | But some villagers believe the National Trust 's developement plans are blatant commercialism … covering an area as big as the village itself … |
| 10 | They 're as big as the Sun — some are even bigger . ’ |
| 11 | Roger Sippl reckons the market for customer service management software and systems will grow to be as big as the Manufacturing Resource Planning ( MRP ) market is now , and expects there will be room enough for three players . |
| 12 | ‘ And mine penis , ’ he proclaimed , ‘ mine penis is as big as the World Trade Centre . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Not as big as the fuss I 'll kick up if he says anything . |
| 14 | A project almost as big as the Channel Tunnel is now underway to bring cable television to every house in Britain . |
| 15 | Yet this is , in many ways , a weak administration : supported by a minority vote last November , bereft of men and women as big as the president himself can be . |
| 16 | ‘ My penis , ’ he announced , ‘ is as big as the Empire State Building . ’ |
| 17 | It wo n't be as big as The Liar but it will be a good read at Christmas . |
| 18 | It 's not as big as the planet but it 's a pretty large one to . |
| 19 | The traditional type of plotter is known as a ‘ flat bed ’ plotter because the paper is fixed to a flat plate with the gantry travelling over the top but the disadvantage is that the plotter must be at least as big as the piece of paper . |
| 20 | It was as big as the island itself , if not bigger , and the rocks below seemed to be wobbling under the strain of holding it up . |
| 21 | And because of that it has got gravitation and fields which is n't as big as the earth , it 's only about one sixth as big as the earth . |
| 22 | And because of that it has got gravitation and fields which is n't as big as the earth , it 's only about one sixth as big as the earth . |
| 23 | And giant waves are indeed like alien presences , as big as the Death Star , erasing ships and sailors as effectively as Martian ray guns . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System-and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate . |