Example sentences of "[adv] large as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cities as large as Sheffield and Leeds were receiving no more than £4 million per annum , little more than 1 per cent of their annual current expenditure . |
| 2 | He agreed that certain regions , even those as large as Highland could be retained . |
| 3 | They stored it in massive casks said to have been as large as houses . |
| 4 | He was credited with having sorted out and rationalized the administration of North Borneo , a country as large as Ireland . |
| 5 | Read up on pond building and filtration ( try The Practical Encyclopaedia of Koi Salamander £19.95 ) , then I suggest , build an in-ground , gravity-fed system — as large as space permits . |
| 6 | ( The reductions would be as large as $158 per month in Wisconsin and $113 in Connecticut , compared to increases of over $300 in each of New Mexico , Arizona , Mississippi , Louisiana , Alabama and Tennessee . ) |
| 7 | There were the words , as large as life and often twice as sane . |
| 8 | Yet here they were , as large as life — Surkov with his long yellow hair and Rozanov with his attenuated face and his baldness — clearly the living people with whom I had boozed and improvised in Moscow , so long ago . |
| 9 | Oh , Lee , you 're as large as life . |
| 10 | No , there it was , as large as life in capital letters : To MR LUDOVIC KENNEDY , BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS . |
| 11 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 12 | As large as life and death , both funny and sad — and not a little dangerous . |
| 13 | His range of interests is as large as life : births , marriages , deaths , quarrels , reconciliations , rhetoric , religion , cultivation , animal husbandry , home-crafts , politics — all claim his attention and are ( or should be ) faithfully reported — warts and all . |
| 14 | as large as life . |
| 15 | Andrew come , just come out as large as life . |
| 16 | Please could you let us have two copies of a map on as large as scale as possible . |
| 17 | Today , with projects as large as Canary Wharf , Broadgate and King 's Cross , the developer is once again a town planner . |
| 18 | Yet the situation is full of constraints and the difference is not as large as Mrs Thatcher , if she were X , might like to think . |
| 19 | The relatively peaceful and well-governed " home counties " of the Duke of Aquitaine , from Poitiers westwards to the sea at Talmont , then down the coast to Bordeaux and up the valley of the Garonne as far as Agen , comprised an area as large as midland and southeastern England and included some of the most prosperous and commercially developed parts of the whole duchy . |
| 20 | Why are there not beetles as big as badgers and moths as large as hawks ? |
| 21 | These are very large powers , every bit as large as powers of compulsory acquisition of property ; and , in my judgment , the court should seek to ensure that , just as in the case of compulsory purchase powers , the conditions for the exercise of the powers conferred by the 1975 Act are strictly observed . |
| 22 | Today , 90-95% of a property 's value is the maximum , and because of conservative valuations ( often 10-15% below the purchase price ) , first-time buyers are having to find deposits as large as 20% . |
| 23 | Dense forests , coniferous and broad-leaved , also rocky gorges on mountains and in deserts , hunting at dawn and dusk for mammals as large as roe deer and birds as large as Capercaillie. 26–28 in. ( 66–71 cm . ) . |
| 24 | I assume that the Minister is aware that 750,000 tonnes of CFCs are used in the world every year and that that has resulted in an ozone layer hole as large as Alaska . |
| 25 | Also in the 1880s , Europe was divided into states of vastly varying sizes , as small as Montenegro and as large as Russia , but eighty per cent of Europe 's total population was to be found in six countries — Russia , Germany , Austria-Hungary , France , Italy and Britain . |
| 26 | Europeans were divided in 1880 into states as small as Montenegro , with less than a quarter of a million inhabitants , and as large as Russia , with between 90 and 100 million . |
| 27 | Tallis realized with a start that the Daurog 's body was alive with woodlice , some of them as large as leaves themselves . |
| 28 | this man managing , almost single-handed , a country as large as Scotland ; when one sees that man , living in a leaky mud hut , holding , by the sway of his personality , the balance even between fiercely antagonistic races , in a land which would cover half a dozen of the large English counties ; when one sees the marvels accomplished by tact , passionate interest and self-control , with utterly inadequate means , in continuous personal discomfort , short-handed , on poor pay , out here in Northern Nigeria — then one feels that permanent evil can not ultimately evolve from so much admirable work accomplished , and that the end must be good . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's quite large for around here , ’ the woman told her , and , even though it was nowhere near as large as Leith 's present flat , nor in the area that she was used to either , she was in a ‘ beggars ca n't be choosers ’ situation . |
| 30 | He noticed that hundreds of mushrooms had sprouted since his last visit , some as large as saucers . |