Example sentences of "as big [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some crates were as big as vacation cottages , because a hierarchy of crate status had suddenly come into being . |
| 2 | Something as big as that . |
| 3 | This year it promises to be as big as ever , with 90% of stands space already booked . |
| 4 | ( ‘ Seven as big as marbles , the surgeon said . ’ ) |
| 5 | This raises a lump which may become as big as a small orange . |
| 6 | Butterflies as big as birds fell down from the branches , wings flopping limply . |
| 7 | It is already as big as the previous record in 1987 , when half the ozone over the Antarctic disappeared between late September and late November . |
| 8 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 9 | I ai n't never seen anything like it — all them colours and Father Christmas , huge , as big as a giant — all red and gold and glittery . |
| 10 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 11 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 12 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 13 | These enterprises are now almost as big as that other mammoth contingent liability of America 's socialised credit system , federally insured deposits . |
| 14 | But , as the table shows , after adjustment for inflation some of the mergers that took place during this century 's three previous spates of restructuring — 1897–1904 , 1925–30 and the late 1960s — were as big as the top takeovers of the 1980s . |
| 15 | Philip reckoned he was n't as big as him but you could n't have told what age he was . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I saw a hole in one of his socks at the back as big as a potato , and offered to do some mending for him . ’ |
| 18 | But they also brought reports of strong , fortified cities , and inhabitants as big as giants , and these , as chapter 14 now makes clear , make more impact on the people than the assurances of fertility . |
| 19 | A tiny fair-haired boy in army uniform walked jauntily up and down the bus with an air of chirpy innocence , holding a gun nearly as big as himself . |
| 20 | Neither , however , is as big as Government House , the crenellated , Italianate mansion used by the Governor . |
| 21 | Cumbernauld 's no' as big as Glasgow . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | As big as … ’ his voice trailed off . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He could make a wall twice as big as Endill and three times as wide in under a minute . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Their goal was to create a building that would remain functional after an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 , as big as anything that has ever hit California . |
| 28 | In his bedroom Raymond is torturing his electric guitar , which is plugged into an amplifier as big as an upended coffin , grinning fiendishly as he produces howls and wails of feedback . |
| 29 | As big as it 'll go . |
| 30 | And a heart is only as big as the love it holds : |