Example sentences of "[verb] the biggest [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The badly shaken Wiltern knows that if it does , however , he will lose his one chance to nail the biggest cocaine supplier in Los Angeles . |
2 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
3 | In Scotland , sanitary waste made the biggest impact — 38 individual items were found per kilometre , compared with 27 plastic bottles and the same number of cans , and five plastic six-pack holders . |
4 | More significantly , the Government yesterday made the biggest effort yet to defuse the row by saying the two Central Office officials ' visit had been cleared by the Tory chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , but Major himself had known nothing about it . |
5 | Mr Maxmilian Frizzell owned the biggest garage and car salesroom in Tollemarche . |
6 | Using the biggest pot you have simply plunge it into lots of boiling salted water . |
7 | The board acted just weeks after GM disclosed the biggest loss in corporate history . |
8 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
9 | These remain the biggest killers in most developed countries , and more important the largest preventable cause of premature death ( i.e. before the age of 65 years ) . |
10 | While libraries currently remain the biggest CD-ROM user group , the numbers of business , professional and individual users is plainly rising rapidly . |
11 | Problems with childcare remain the biggest barrier to women succeeding at work . |
12 | A report by the Confederation of British Industry says Britain is enjoying the biggest increase in business confidence for ten years . |
13 | GUARDIAN Royal Exchange yesterday revealed the biggest turnaround in its history , recording a £3 million taxable profit compared with a £210 million pre-tax loss in 1991 . |
14 | In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex-Hibernian midfield player John Collins . |
15 | And , without waiting for a reply to his question about whether she gave Morton tacit approval for the book which became the biggest seller in the history of royal publishing , Philip went on to accuse his daughter-in-law of putting the dignity of the Crown at risk . |
16 | The Flowers arrived on the scene two years ago when their London Records LP , ‘ People ’ , became the biggest selling debut in Irish pop history . |
17 | BNS was established at Pontypool in South Wales post-war , and became the biggest nylon producer in Europe . |
18 | During this period , the city of Cologne became the biggest city in Germany , with a population of around 50,000 people by 1180 , and extensive trade connections . |
19 | In western Europe West Germany in the 1980S became the biggest producer of chips Much of this was captive production for Siemens , IBM and Japanese companies . |
20 | Cancer now became the biggest thing in my life . |
21 | Come in with me as my lieutenant , and we 'll make the biggest fortune ever seen in Cornwall . |
22 | On average ( £5.44 per capita ) the Wealden vale was filly comparable with the com-sheep region ( £5 — £5.55 ) and far more affluent than the forest ridge to the east ( £4.64 ) , where , in contrast to the rest of Sussex , the scarcity of truly rich people placed the biggest concentration of wealth in the range £10-£19 instead of £20-£39 . |
23 | And I always remember he said said to me , he 'd placed the biggest orders for pencils , of course in them , there were no ball pens , er he he received that from the London County Council by accident . |
24 | The Second Front Campaign produced the biggest demonstrations of the war period and , most of the time , opinion polls showed that the demonstrators spoke for the majority of a public moved by both feelings of solidarity with the hard-pressed Russians and by a desire to get the war over with . |
25 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
26 | Cars got the biggest response . |
27 | It got the biggest laugh of the night , so we decided to keep it in . |
28 | Mount Stromboli was the firework which got the biggest applause from the Astra box . |
29 | That got the biggest cheer of the night . |
30 | A SUSPICIOUS car dealer foiled a Provisional IRA plot to plant the biggest bomb ever in London . |