Example sentences of "have be [art] big " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out .
2 There has been no big inquest and I 'm confident we 'll bounce back .
3 While numbers of new AIDS cases reported officially each month have remained relatively steady , there has been a big increase in those needing expert medical and nursing advice at home with a 24-hour on call back up .
4 Even in 1964 we commented , ‘ For as long as many of us care to remember there has been a big Healey in the price lists .
5 In fact , it has been a big experience . ’
6 Both sides blame one another and the result has been chaotic sales , at a time when the slack market has been a big enough handicap anyway .
7 A campaign by Stirling University students association — while officially non-political — to persuade those living elsewhere in Britain to register for a postal vote , has been a big success .
8 BENN 'S campaign in Chesterfield , where he is defending an 8,700 majority , has been fought face-to-face on the grimy doorsteps and in smoky rooms ; a factory meeting has been a big event .
9 If we start from the bottom up , I think there has been a big advance in women as professionals , as producers , directors , starting to come into sound , quite a lot of editors , slightly more difficult with cameras .
10 When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better .
11 Ralph Lauren has been a big influence too , with his Navajo and Santa Fe prints . ’
12 The actual study skills part is running in tandem with the library Project , and we are beginning to see already … , in the third year for example [ where ] they did have library skills [ and it 's apparent from what members of staff are saying ] that … in areas where they are expected to research themselves that there has been a big improvement .
13 We can go on to observe that since the middle of the twentieth century there has been a big revival of informal street music , produced in non-literate , often amateur performance and through the public dissemination of recordings ( see Prato 1984 ) ; this has , of course , gone along with a wave of amateur music-making , centred on the guitar and on non-literate modes of production , whit h in the rock 'n' roll , ski Me and ‘ beat group ’ periods ( the late 1950s and the 1960s ) swept across the whole of Europe and North America .
14 ‘ The winter sale has been a big disappointment .
15 ‘ This has been a big exercise , ’ said Crawford , ‘ but it is all nearing completion now and the new systems should be up and running during the next six months . ’
16 ‘ Playing in the first team has been a big step up after the Academy and the reserves .
17 He explains : ‘ I 'm fitter than ever , physically and mentally , and golf has been a big help .
18 ‘ There has been a big drive in the last year to get closer to the travel industry generally , ’ says Bill .
19 That has been a big feature of today 's debate , so I want to take the matter a bit further .
20 There has been a big increase in the use of knives in crimes of violence .
21 I do not want to say that there has been a huge leap in the past year or so , because that would not true , but there has been a big leap since 1980 .
22 McCallen 's high-striking rate has been a big factor in Bangor 's success this season .
23 THERE has been a big rise in the number of people going to the Sellafield Visitors Centre .
24 There has been a big investment in a high-speed fibre optic network , which permits very high speeds of communication not formerly feasible .
25 ‘ There has been a big swing to pay bars , which may also be linked to the recession , ’ said Fenella Willis .
26 ‘ There was an unacceptably long waiting list before we appointed a second consultant in Chester but since then there has been a big improvement , ’ she said .
27 ‘ What has happened recently has been a big shock to them and they have now got to knuckle down . ’
28 ‘ There has been a big improvement in the last five games , although our results might not show that .
29 Lack of funds has been a big problem , especially for research , but it always has been .
30 COMMUNITY workers say there has been a big increase in the number of young homeless people as winter sets in .
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