Example sentences of "[verb] big [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police deny they 're adopting big brother spying tactics , pointing out that the use of video cameras in helping to solve crimes is nothing new . |
| 2 | Lennie Lawrence , like Malcolm Crosby , has been a breath of fresh air to North-East football , which for too long has clung to the misguided belief that only the big name managers ( Big Lawrie , Big Jack and co. ) can bring big time success . |
| 3 | Right the body surface at birth is wet and therefore cools quite rapidly so they 've got big surface area and they 're born wet and they have to be dried off . |
| 4 | Now they will face bigger council tax bills than anyone else in the country . |
| 5 | Mixing these two mediums , he has created what he calls Big Beat Poetry — thoughtful lyrics , dynamic raps , soulful melodies , harmonicas , flutes , much-favoured acoustic guitars and hints of reggae . |
| 6 | Well I says Andy cut it down a bit like , even if you could cut , cut it down a bit for and I says he ca n't afford to give big housekeeping money and plus try and get a bus away to Kilkeel and take out , or take the wee girl out , what do you call her , Sonia . |
| 7 | In a burst of well-timed ecumenism , Sparc International and a number of its key members have thrown their combined weight behind Unix System V.4 in an effort to build bigger application muscle . |
| 8 | But already local authorities are preparing themselves to meet the cost of bigger premiums and penalty clauses … which eventually will mean bigger council tax bills . |
| 9 | We use big plastic toffee bottles filled with concrete , with an eye-bolt sunk into the top . |
| 10 | To have big car luxury and performance which can outmanoeuvre the opposition . |
| 11 | The Renault design team clearly succeeded in their intention to offer big car comfort in a competitively compact package . |
| 12 | If a customer ( importer ) of Albion Bank wishes to make a dollar payment for goods imported from the USA , then Albion Bank ( AB ) will instruct Big Apple Bank ( BAB ) to debit its nostro ( dollar ) account in New York and pay the required sum of dollars to the US exporter . |
| 13 | They therefore have bigger buying power , than one company in Scotland . |