Example sentences of "big as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raises a lump which may become as big as a small orange . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As big as a big cockerel ai n't they ? |
| 4 | The barn was as high and big as a huge hall , an earthen floor strewn with finely scattered straw . |
| 5 | Great big hops , big as a whole cage up there , ’ with a jerk of the head in the direction of ( I supposed ) a zoo . |
| 6 | Cos he said it 's gon na be as big as the other house . |
| 7 | Maggie indicated a large building almost as big as the main house itself . |
| 8 | The name comes from the Greek for ‘ eye as big as the full moon ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In Brobdingnag there are large numbers of flies in summer , and these awful insects , each as big as an English bird , gave me no peace . |
| 12 | Colonel Stok was as big as an old oak wardrobe . |