Example sentences of "as big [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not quite as big as a CD . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was getting to be as big as a cathedral . |
| 4 | As big as a cathedral it stood , in red Midland brick and warm Oxford limestone , with the noon sun full upon it . |
| 5 | It was as big as a settee but it was dead quiet . |
| 6 | The nutmeg , complete with its edible rind , is almost as big as a hen 's egg , with a diameter of about two inches . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 9 | It is about as big as a fist , and bound securely with black gaffer tape . |
| 10 | Someone tapped her on the shoulder then placed a mug as big as a chamber pot beside her . |
| 11 | " The slice of bread should be as big as a dessert plate and nearly 1 inch thick . |
| 12 | Turning a corner along a narrow track , I came face to face with a blustering capercaillie , as big as a turkey . |
| 13 | She looked as big as a donkey and when the cavernous jaws with the great yellowed teeth brushed my thigh I knew it was time to go . |
| 14 | He started to smoke incessantly , carrying around a cigarette box as big as a biscuit tin . |
| 15 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 16 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 17 | day we had a cat in our garden and er my dog is n't as big as a cat . |
| 18 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 19 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 20 | Pepsis , a giant among wasps with a six-inch wingspan , lives in South America and grapples with bird-eating spiders as big as a man 's hand . |
| 21 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 22 | As big as a tennis court ? |
| 23 | That island 's as big as a forceball pitch . ’ |
| 24 | It 's hard to drop anything as big as a body from a bridge without being noticed — even at midnight . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The eleven-metre long Allosaurus — the ‘ leaping lizard ’ — weighing up to two tons , as big as a bus , was able to take strides two metres long . |
| 27 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 28 | 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 ! ! ! |
| 29 | Very occasionally , flower-like impressions were detected on them , some the size of a buttercup , some as big as a rose . |
| 30 | As big as a block of flats , this steel gate was 167ft × 54ft × 35ft thick ( about 50m × 15m × 10m ) . |