Example sentences of "[noun sg] as large [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interferometer swung around by the Earth 's rotation will ‘ synthesise ’ a dish as large as the separation of the two telescopes . |
| 2 | Now he could see that the mound had an entrance , marked by a boulder as large as the mounting block . |
| 3 | ‘ Also , a development as large as the one proposed would generate a very substantial amount of traffic and we would have to examine in great detail the implications for roads in the area . |
| 4 | The road gradually descends into kinder surroundings , the sight of trees being welcome after the barren crossing from Gruinard , and arrives at a car park as large as a football field , usually well patronised by cars and coaches and obviously indicating the presence of a major attraction . |
| 5 | The pueblo was a moral , economic , and governmental unit : as a centre of government the larger municipalities could rule a surrounding area as large as a small English county . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I used the old illustration : a ball of steel as large as the world , a fly alighting on it once every million years . |
| 7 | This means that very few particles can escape from a black hole as large as the one hypothesized to exist in Cygnus X-I , but that particles can leak very rapidly out of smaller black holes . |
| 8 | Uncle Mack 's Broadstairs Minstrels performing on the sands , the Punch and Judy man , the donkey boys and the fruit vendors were dunned into momentary silence at the sight of this huge party moving along the seafront , like a leviathan as large as the one washed-up at Fishness Point in 1574 . |
| 9 | Later the amnesia became a problem as large as the one it was meant to conceal Forgetting protects one from pain what at the same time prevents a knowing and understanding of the self . |
| 10 | These are handsome , rusty brown birds with a remarkably amicable disposition for a bird of prey , though they can catch a rabbit or a bird as large as a heron with ease . |
| 11 | The blast wave of a supernova is capable of ionising , or even sweeping clear , the neutral gas from a region as large as a few hundred light years across . |
| 12 | The way Pomiane chose to convey the necessary quantity to his listeners — he must have been a compelling radio talker — and later to his readers was in terms of " a bunch as large as a bunch of violets " . |