Example sentences of "[be] to [be] the big " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether NoS could be classified as ‘ Loony Left ’ or not , the majority of its council backers were to be the big names on the Sun hit list . |
| 2 | They do n't know at the time , but this is to be the biggest event of the unusually hot British summer . |
| 3 | ‘ Our aim , ’ said the man from Aerospatiale , ‘ is to be the biggest General Aviation manufacturer in the world . ’ |
| 4 | After British Telecom , British Gas and British Water , the electricity supply industry — which encompassed the CEGB ( and its Scottish equivalent ) , the regional distribution boards and the National Grid — was to be the biggest sell-off in the country 's industrial history . |
| 5 | It was to be the big idea . |
| 6 | And there was to be the big industrialists , three or four of them . |