Example sentences of "be the big " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some headlines indicate how all the newspapers made great use of the detail which was emerging during the court trial : Jury told WRAC ‘ was sexually experienced' ( Times ) ; The Big ‘ Un 's sex sessions ( Daily Mirror ) ; I AM THE BIG ‘ UN : Para ‘ gang-rape ’ girl tells of her sex urge ( Sun ) ; MY ROMP WITH AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER ( Star ) ; Five to satisfy Big ‘ Un ( Daily Mirror ) ; Paras case girl ‘ was sex maniac' ( The Times ) ; and so on . |
| 2 | That 's Doctor Rock oh good I like him I really am the big fan of his . |
| 3 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 4 | It has been the biggest frustration of my career . ’ |
| 5 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 6 | Swedish investors have been the biggest spenders , splashing out some DM5 billion last year on German property . |
| 7 | The Flowers , alongside The Waterboys now adopted Irish citizens , decamped in the County Galway fishing village of Spiddal have been the biggest visible influence on a generation of urban folk dreamers . |
| 8 | The cash increases in each of the three years up to 1992–93 have been the biggest ever . |
| 9 | Come to think of it , that 's really been the biggest change in music since it started coming on ‘ gramophone records ’ . |
| 10 | 6 IF super Mario Bros 3 had been a film it would have been the biggest earning movie of all time . |
| 11 | Gilbert , smiling , interjects : ‘ Artists have always been the biggest fuckers , no ? |
| 12 | ‘ Garren Of New York and Trevor Sorbie have been the biggest influences on me ’ . |
| 13 | But he said : ‘ It has been the biggest mistake of my life . ’ |
| 14 | That 's been the biggest problem for me . ’ |
| 15 | In the context of the agreement , analysts were quoted as suggesting that acquiring a software base for a new supercomputer has traditionally been the biggest drag on sales , and doubting that Convex and HP had cracked it — but up to now there has been no massively parallel machine that is both hardware-and software-compatible with a big existing applications base . |
| 16 | In the context of the agreement , analysts were quoted as suggesting that acquiring a software base for a new supercomputer has traditionally been the biggest drag on sales , and doubting that Convex and Hewlett had cracked it — but up to now there has been no massively parallel machine that is both hardware- and software-compatible with a big existing applications base . |
| 17 | The Rolex watch company have each year been the biggest sponsors of this event , with a long list of lesser sponsors including Walkers Shortbread , Eley , Ford Motor Company , Moët et Chandon , British Airways , J Barbour & Sons , Bells Scotch Whisky , Land Rover , and others . |
| 18 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 19 | ‘ And that letter would have been the biggest surprise of all , if you 'd opened it , ’ he said grimly . |
| 20 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 21 | I had no relatives left behind for them to blackmail me into silence-that had been the biggest obstacle . |
| 22 | Had it been the biggest mistake of her life ? |
| 23 | The report said that the reshuffle had been the biggest since the founding of the People 's Republic of China in 1949 . |
| 24 | For example , television has probably been the biggest consumer electronics success of all time . |
| 25 | So that 's been the biggest lesson for me . |
| 26 | It was an amazing last 15 mins and the crowd fo nearly 38,000 must have been the biggest and noisiest for at least 10 yrs . |
| 27 | Now , a year later , she knew her hesitation had been the biggest mistake of her life . |
| 28 | Pickering , with all his experience , has been the biggest let down . |
| 29 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 30 | So that I think has been the biggest , communication-wise , has been the biggest step forward in a more erm friendly and er happier sort of note we , we were one of the few brigades that started a band . |