Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [art] [adv] bigger " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 2 | Brighton Polytechnic has made an even bigger commitment to the scheme : it has distributed 20 adaptors to local schools , and expects to double the number of adaptors in its field trial in the near future . |
| 3 | Over the last five years , Ecstasy has had an even bigger impact . |
| 4 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 5 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 6 | After the outbreak of the revolution in December 1989 , the press thought that they had caught an even bigger fellow-travelling fish than the old Dean of Canterbury . |
| 7 | Next had come the much bigger step in to cable television , which he believes will one day be a major community resource and the source of enormous profits through home-order shopping on two-way TV lines . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've got a much bigger nose than I expected , Michael , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Er er we could say that we 've got a much bigger range of aims and does that mean that we are more likely to have |