Example sentences of "large as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creature that lay before us was as large as a small lion . |
| 2 | Telemine is only as large as a conventional torpedo — of which two British versions were sufficient to sink the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano with the loss of more than 300 lives during the Falklands war last summer . |
| 3 | It was as large as a big dog , and its tail measured two metres . |
| 4 | Yet in 1992 the SSC 's magnet bill was as large as the total government research and development budget for the newer technology of high-temperature superconductors . |
| 5 | By the end of 1986 building society shares and deposits were almost as large as the total sterling deposits of the retail banks and if we confine our attention to deposits of the personal sector alone , then personal sector building society deposits outnumber personal sector ‘ bank ’ deposits by almost 2 : 1 , and have been increasing much more rapidly . |
| 6 | In practice , the credit multiplier in the United Kingdom is not as large as the above example suggests because of leakages . |
| 7 | But at the same time it 's very hard to get rid of something as large as the psychic fear of famine . |
| 8 | In this case , Rosat observations suggest that the ratio of baryon mass to total mass within 3 megaparsecs is about 25 per cent , which is five times as large as the cosmological ratio in the standard model . |
| 9 | Georgia-based advertising agency Space Marketing had earlier announced plans for inflatable space billboards , 2 kilometres long and 1 kilometre wide , which would appear as large as the full moon . |
| 10 | Used when one of the branch pipes ( to a central heating radiator , for example ) does n't need to be as large as the main pipe . |
| 11 | Now he could see that the mound had an entrance , marked by a boulder as large as the mounting block . |
| 12 | The light was good , the window twice as large as an ordinary window , though it faced south . |