Example sentences of "[be] [adv] as big " in BNC.
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| 1 | The widower strikes no such fear into the heart , even though , in reality , he may turn out to be just as big a responsibility . |
| 2 | If something is remembered twice as strongly , or if two items are remembered rather than one , should the change be twice as big ? |
| 3 | ‘ But I seem to be almost as big a draw as the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 4 | There are those which are not unlike the polytechnics both because they offer a very high percentage of advanced work and also because they are almost as big . |
| 5 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 6 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 7 | She looked back at me with no expression at all in her face , but her eyes were twice as big as usual , and I could see the tension in every muscle . |
| 8 | Their gardens , too , were twice as big as the labourers ' . |
| 9 | They looked like equine stock , but they were half as big again as any horse that Rostov had ever encountered . |
| 10 | And a heart is only as big as the love it holds : |
| 11 | It 's already as big as Pa 's gumboot . |
| 12 | The David Nicholson open day is just as big draw as some of the top races these days … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is probably as big , almost a call on the goal as they are in higher education . |
| 15 | But this is probably as big a book as you can get in one volume , which we wanted , we wanted a single volume handy desk top encyclopaedia . |
| 16 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 17 | The Greek diaspora is almost as big and lively as the Jewish one . |
| 18 | The nutmeg , complete with its edible rind , is almost as big as a hen 's egg , with a diameter of about two inches . |
| 19 | so can you can you get one that 's twice as big that 's called a john ? |
| 20 | A few occassions this year he 's had a go at some defender who is twice as big as him . |
| 21 | In Britain , where the top three control 50% , it is not — and gross profit margins are half as big again . |
| 22 | Lee at thirteen was already as big as Roy , who was seventeen , nearly six feet tall , and was also bad-tempered . |
| 23 | The next year the eight to the final year , there 's sixteen the next year until we were getting that the two year course was just as big as the old one year course . |
| 24 | I think it was just as big a gamble for him , perhaps bigger . ’ |
| 25 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , with 30 full time staff and more than 1000 local groups , the PPU was nearly as big as CND fifty years later . |
| 27 | Foo says it was twice as big as anything else that day , which would make it sixty to seventy feet from base to crest ; some called it eighty feet . |
| 28 | " Well , when my grandfather went , more than a thousand buffalo were sacrificed , and the death-village , which was twice as big as this , was completely burned down . |
| 29 | The cloud of gloom over them was almost as big . |
| 30 | The ‘ female ’ was almost as big , but much yellower , and was , I suspect , an individual of another form , rather more like the ‘ lanisticola ’ type described above . |