Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] the big " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative management of the economy has stoked the biggest credit boom in Britain 's history . |
| 2 | Britain has attracted the biggest concentration of investment from Japan , and the Japanese feel comfortable with the Conservatives , even if they reserve their deepest admiration for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 3 | Palo Alto , California-based interface specialist , Neuron Data Inc , has won the biggest feather in its cap to date , securing a deal with IBM Corp for version 2.0 of its Open Interface builder launched last year ( UX Nos 386 , 408 ) . |
| 4 | Finally there is the flexible workforce of part-timers and temporary workers which has seen the biggest employment growth since the early 1980s , particularly in the service sector , and accounts for the majority of the growth in female employment . |
| 5 | Among the Arabs , Saudi Arabia , which had invested great prestige in the plan , has suffered the biggest setback . |
| 6 | Among the Arabs , Saudi Arabia , which had invested great prestige in the plan , has suffered the biggest setback . |
| 7 | Oxfordshire snooker star Tessa Davidson has made the big break into the game 's elite . |
| 8 | But Daly has had the big finger pointed at him before , for excessive drinking , for allegedly smashing up hotel rooms on the minor tours , for his whole attitude . |
| 9 | Marius Gabriel The Original Sin ( Arrow ) Passionate big read that has had the big hype . |
| 10 | Jimmy Walker is celebrating a juicy record — the green-fingered genius has got the biggest melon in Britain ! |
| 11 | It 'll involve us developing visiting schemes , under eight services , helping families in different ways , improving services for disabled children , developing family centres , and a new specific — this 'll might amuse you this — a new specific responsibility for us to inspect and register the care practices of private schools in the County , and Oxfordshire has got the biggest number of those in the whole country . |
| 12 | Half a decade on , global warming has become the biggest environment story . |
| 13 | It gives me some satisfaction to learn that 12 years later British Airways , privatised , efficient , and highly profitable , has become the biggest international airline in the world , while Lufthansa , struggling with high costs , has seen its reputation slip . |
| 14 | Now Nigel has become the biggest noise in steam |
| 15 | They may be piqued by the performance of fellow-American Salomon Brothers , which has become the biggest single bidder at most gilt auctions . |
| 16 | Driven by his ferocious determination to be first , Microsoft , based in Redmond , in Washington state , has become the biggest software company in the world . |
| 17 | Thanks to the English invasion , this French store has become the biggest seller of beer in the whole country . |
| 18 | On the whole , it has suited the big powers to have mediocre or self-effacing diplomats . |
| 19 | This experimental law has caused the biggest outcry even before it has been played . |
| 20 | ‘ Souness has inherited the biggest mess at Anfield that I can remember and in trying to get himself out of it he has at times become even more bogged down . |
| 21 | But in his absence no-one was capable of providing it and that must be hugely worrying for Wilkinson , who has taken the biggest gamble of his successful career by selling the striker . |
| 22 | Most of the units would be let to chainstores new to the town , including the anchor store , C and A , which has taken the biggest , two-floor unit . |
| 23 | THE Cheshire Cat has vanquished the Big Friendly Giant in the classroom battleground of English literature . |
| 24 | that 's got the big |
| 25 | That 's the one who 's just got engaged to this guy who 's got the big |
| 26 | but she 's got the biggest problem of all because she 's got ta pick us |
| 27 | Then a bit later , but not well do n't do it when we are gon na go to sleep because cos we end ups tal talking about who 's dad 's got the biggest plonker ! |
| 28 | Well he he 's got the biggest arms longest |
| 29 | So Liverpool 's got the biggest capacity has it ? |
| 30 | So Liverpool 's got the biggest capacity has it ? |