Example sentences of "big [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brontosaurus , for example , was big as well as being a herbivore , and T. Rex was big but a carnivore . |
| 2 | She said it was ‘ just 23 inches ’ too big because a JCB had dug the wrong side of foundation lines . |
| 3 | Not big as a bear , big as a cat . |
| 4 | day we had a cat in our garden and er my dog is n't as big as a cat . |
| 5 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 6 | He started to smoke incessantly , carrying around a cigarette box as big as a biscuit tin . |
| 7 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 8 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 9 | As big as a tennis court ? |
| 10 | Pepsis , a giant among wasps with a six-inch wingspan , lives in South America and grapples with bird-eating spiders as big as a man 's hand . |
| 11 | His Partagas perfecto was champed between his inner tube lips , a diamond as big as a buttercup sparkled on the starched front of his dress shirt , a long white silk scarf was casually looped around his lack of a neck . |
| 12 | Next a light appeared , and a moment later a shape swept out of the night , big as a centaur , its blinding eye striking him along with something solid . |
| 13 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 14 | The nutmeg , complete with its edible rind , is almost as big as a hen 's egg , with a diameter of about two inches . |
| 15 | Turning a corner along a narrow track , I came face to face with a blustering capercaillie , as big as a turkey . |
| 16 | Not quite as big as a CD . |
| 17 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 18 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 19 | It is about as big as a fist , and bound securely with black gaffer tape . |
| 20 | She looked as big as a donkey and when the cavernous jaws with the great yellowed teeth brushed my thigh I knew it was time to go . |
| 21 | That island 's as big as a forceball pitch . ’ |
| 22 | It was getting to be as big as a cathedral . |
| 23 | As big as a cathedral it stood , in red Midland brick and warm Oxford limestone , with the noon sun full upon it . |
| 24 | " The slice of bread should be as big as a dessert plate and nearly 1 inch thick . |
| 25 | Someone tapped her on the shoulder then placed a mug as big as a chamber pot beside her . |
| 26 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 27 | The wheel nearest the P2 is huge ( nearly as big as a Boeing trim wheel ) and controls the flaps . |
| 28 | It was as big as a settee but it was dead quiet . |
| 29 | The beast is about as big as a sheep and is described as : ‘ A freak of nature . |
| 30 | He told Richardson that a Dutch gentleman had given him Frageria chiloensis , a native strawberry from the Spanish West Indies , but although Miller had not yet seen the fruit he quoted A. F. Frézier who ‘ in his Voyages says it grows as big as a pullet 's egg … a great rarity ’ . |