Example sentences of "[adv] as big [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a heart is only as big as the love it holds : |
| 2 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 3 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lee at thirteen was already as big as Roy , who was seventeen , nearly six feet tall , and was also bad-tempered . |
| 6 | It 's already as big as Pa 's gumboot . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His majorities were not always as big as he would have liked , notably in 1923 , his first election as Prime Minister , when he rashly asked for 10,000 and got 6000 ; but he was never in remote danger of losing the seat . |
| 9 | A tiny fair-haired boy in army uniform walked jauntily up and down the bus with an air of chirpy innocence , holding a gun nearly as big as himself . |
| 10 | It was something I 'd dreamed of since I was a boy humping golf-bags nearly as big as me . |
| 11 | One day we went for an excursion with my godson George and his young parents , George clutching teddy , nearly as big as himself . |
| 12 | The wheel nearest the P2 is huge ( nearly as big as a Boeing trim wheel ) and controls the flaps . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , with 30 full time staff and more than 1000 local groups , the PPU was nearly as big as CND fifty years later . |
| 14 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 15 | Just to be on the safe side , though , and without telling Nisodemus , he found some more chain and , in one of the greasy old toolboxes in Jekub 's shed , a padlock nearly as big as he was . |
| 16 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 17 | A Customs spokesman said : ‘ This is our biggest ever seizure of amphetamines , nearly as big as the 122 kilos we seized during the whole of last year . ’ |
| 18 | A Customs spokesman said : ‘ This is our biggest ever seizure of amphetamines , nearly as big as the 122 kilos we seized during the whole of last year . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 20 | You 're paying for the hole they should have dug provided it was at least as big as they |
| 21 | The traditional type of plotter is known as a ‘ flat bed ’ plotter because the paper is fixed to a flat plate with the gantry travelling over the top but the disadvantage is that the plotter must be at least as big as the piece of paper . |
| 22 | He had indicated that if the PSD failed to secure a majority at least as big as that obtained in 1987 , he would refuse to form a new government or a coalition . |
| 23 | Miss Potts looked so disbelieving , Mademoiselle exaggerated the size of the spider and held out her hands to show Miss Potts it was at least as big as a fair sized frog . |
| 24 | I had sores on there as big as pennies . |
| 25 | These enterprises are now almost as big as that other mammoth contingent liability of America 's socialised credit system , federally insured deposits . |
| 26 | A project almost as big as the Channel Tunnel is now underway to bring cable television to every house in Britain . |
| 27 | Never ! 'Cos I would die of shame if I retaliated and hit back ; and I would , because I 've levelled men almost as big as you before today , and you know it . ’ |
| 28 | The nutmeg , complete with its edible rind , is almost as big as a hen 's egg , with a diameter of about two inches . |
| 29 | There were thirty pairs of animals in the body of the ark , ranging from a lion and a lioness almost as big as Noah himself , down to a pair of white mice no bigger than Melanie 's little finger-nail . |
| 30 | They came down almost as big as when they went up . |