Example sentences of "big [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are leaving Paris at the rate of some 20,000 a year , chased out by soaring property prices and the shortage of rental accommodation — especially of flats big enough for a family . |
| 2 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 3 | What I do is chop the luncheon meat into cubes just big enough for a size 8 or 10 hook and mix them with damp groundbait . |
| 4 | At the end of the flat portion there was a gap big enough for a man 's body to drop through , and then a single rung like a short parallel bar in a gym . |
| 5 | Not big enough for a Walkman — lumpy bulges , not square . |
| 6 | You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably . |
| 7 | He confirmed that the lump on my thigh was indeed big enough for a biopsy and that Dr Slachman would be performing the small operation ( thank God it 's not Bloodnott ) . |
| 8 | ‘ We were using a 2,000 watt PA — barely big enough for a pub gig — and agreed to finish at 10pm . |
| 9 | Big enough for a giant X to have mysteriously appeared in mid-town Manhattan and another not a million miles from his flagship shop in Brooklyn . |
| 10 | The garden is not big enough for a swimming pool . |
| 11 | It was just big enough for Angalo and Masklin , and big enough for a terrified Gurder with the two of them pulling on his arms . |
| 12 | Aunt Kit never wrote , it would have shamed her to write my married name on the envelope , but she knitted for the baby , strange , holey garments that stretched to a huge size when I washed them , big enough for a prize boxer . |
| 13 | Underneath you 'll find an oven big enough for a family-sized turkey . |
| 14 | They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped . |
| 15 | We got a house with three bedrooms , a bathroom , a separate sitting room and dining room , a kitchen big enough for a table and chairs ( saving mothers from solitary domestic confinement ) , front and back garden , a coal house , inside lavatory and outside lavatory and wash house where people stored dolly tubs and mangles , bikes and prams . |
| 16 | Six feet down , there is a huge circular cellar , ten or twelve feet across and two feet or so high , quite big enough for a man to crawl into . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , that chicken coop 's not big enough for a one-man transmat . ’ |
| 18 | Unheeding , the Welshman went on , ‘ How are their wives expected to feed a family on a lump of cheese not big enough for a mouse , and a handful of peas that would n't satisfy a guinea-pig ? |
| 19 | Visit the inland caves of Melissani ( row along the underground river ) and Dhrogorati ( big enough for a concert ) half an hour away by taxi . |
| 20 | The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on . |
| 21 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 22 | If you can pull them out you can make a hole big enough for a man to get inside . |
| 23 | When all the plates were riveted together , the structure would form a square tube fourteen feet wide and about twenty-five feet high overall — big enough for a train to pass through . |
| 24 | The temperature dependence of η can normally be expressed in the form where A is a constant and ΔE D represents the activation energy required to create a hole big enough for a molecule to translate or ‘ jump ’ into during flow . |
| 25 | There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through . |
| 26 | There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through . |
| 27 | Oh yes and and then it got too big for them they are no longer able to control it they 're not big enough for a big power two very big big brothers but they could n't run a company the size they built it . |
| 28 | probably not big enough for a man . |
| 29 | Well I do n't think they 're big enough for a big tent , I mean one is fairly long , but er I do n't |
| 30 | It contains two enormous hand-knitted cardigans big enough for an orang-utan , and a pair of woollen tights that Pavarotti could have worn . |