Example sentences of "[noun sg] as big [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The German skipper ascribed most of his problems to his team 's unfamiliarity with a boat as big as the 33ft ( 10.2m ) Farr MRX used . |
| 3 | Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her . |
| 4 | She could still remember it all intensely : the swimming pool in which she had learnt to do a dog-paddle ; the ring game ; the endless stretch of blue ocean ; the vast liner as big as a city through which she and Pappy had wandered endlessly . |
| 5 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 6 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 7 | He deserves a medal as big as a frying pan . ’ |
| 8 | The name comes from the Greek for ‘ eye as big as the full moon ’ . |
| 9 | An organisation as big as the police has to turn to scores of different agencies . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | THE DETECTIVE : There 's a hole at the middle of this case as big as the hole in Lepine 's head . |
| 12 | Sensible , efficient , and a heart as big as a football . |
| 13 | Standards were high , as it was appreciated from the outset that it was not enough for such workers " to have a heart as big as a football and to be able to fingerspell and sign . " |
| 14 | In Colin Harvey you had a twinkle-toed midfielder with a heart as big as a lion 's . |
| 15 | He that boy has got a heart as big as a mountain I 'll tell ya , in those situations he will sling himself at anything . |
| 16 | Yes he Foyly , he 's got a heart as big as a lion and he 'll always do that , Foyly , whether he 's been injured or not , for you , and I 'm pleased he got the goals . |
| 17 | The iconography may be updated — with Punch , Harlequin , Perrault 's Cinderella , archetypal figures of immemorial imaginings replaced by newer , movie-bred cast of characters , Roger Rabbit , Indiana Jones , Disney 's Cinderella — but both theme park and funfair are designed to satisfy the childhood fantasy of a toy as big as the object of which it 's supposed to be the scale model . |
| 18 | All of this means that in the past year Schnabel has applied paint and might one hope quality thought time ? to an area as big as a standard tennis court with 400 square feet left over . |
| 19 | But some villagers believe the National Trust 's developement plans are blatant commercialism … covering an area as big as the village itself … |
| 20 | Someone tapped her on the shoulder then placed a mug as big as a chamber pot beside her . |
| 21 | His Partagas perfecto was champed between his inner tube lips , a diamond as big as a buttercup sparkled on the starched front of his dress shirt , a long white silk scarf was casually looped around his lack of a neck . |
| 22 | So as you will see , this leaves a hole as big as a goat 's backside in the programme , and Dulcie wrote to Jas and I that unless one of us would write another ballet , and a longish one at that , the University Ballet would n't be able to go to JHB ! ! ! |
| 23 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 24 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 25 | He had a personality as big as the Ritz . |
| 26 | — each tear as big as an eye |
| 27 | Looking over the heads of the children at the end of this tale , I saw slowly coming towards us , a large brown spiky thing as big as a room , with a dozen legs walking slowly and carefully under it . |
| 28 | Woolworth 's engagement rings , each a lump of glass as big as the Ritz . |
| 29 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 30 | He started to smoke incessantly , carrying around a cigarette box as big as a biscuit tin . |