Example sentences of "have [vb pp] big [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The close identity between fans and their club has weakened as football has become big business and as the players , who were once from the same working-class community as the fans , have become rich superstars . |
| 2 | Rugby has become big business and a spectator sport . |
| 3 | Criminal legal aid has become big business for lawyers . |
| 4 | The water industry has become big business . |
| 5 | The various Telethon type appeals have raised more than 50 million pounds in the past year and charitable giving has become big business and highly organised . |
| 6 | Over the last 30 years , research has become big business , and has been a key element in the formation of new academic disciplines . |
| 7 | Charity has become big business . |
| 8 | In fact , as film-makers have moved out of the studio and on to location , to achieve more realistic impressions of dramatic situations , the attraction of on-location filming into cities and regions has become big business . |
| 9 | It has become big business with a huge amount of money riding on the outcome . ’ |
| 10 | One of the region 's most important electronic engineering companies has announced big job cuts , just a day after the Government revealed that the national unemployment level had also risen again . |
| 11 | On one artefact from Nevada , for instance , Newman has identified big cat , sheep , bison and bear blood residues . |
| 12 | No other government , so the argument runs , not even a completely freely elected one ( Poland 's election last year was only partly free ) , could have detonated Big Bang and survived . |
| 13 | Ted Deerhurst is one of the few Englishmen to have attempted big Waimea . |
| 14 | mind you with cottage , I 've painted big cottage on the stage and , I only looked at it on me bike as I went through Salver |
| 15 | In the Congo he had hunted big game for the first time and in Abyssinia he took every opportunity to do so , and conveyed his enthusiasm to me when I was only a small boy . |
| 16 | I doubt that any of the Israelites wandering in the desert and occasionally venturing down to the water would have written those lines about God being mightier quite so confidently if they had seen big Waimea . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Because they 've got big seating areas as well , where they put , sort of eight tables together and all your party can sit together . |
| 19 | Oh you 've got big schlong er Mark |
| 20 | If you 've got big compost , then maybe the heat of the compost might kill them , but as much as that , it will probably just rejuvenate them . |
| 21 | Yes and we 've got big crease marks on there . |
| 22 | Oh yes , there ha , I mean there are economies of scale in agriculture , it 's just that they 're , the scope of them er , is less than er the scope in manufacturing so I mean , farms used to be a lot smaller and throughout this century , this last century we 've witnessed an increase in farm size alright , but the I think the optimal , the optimal farm size is erm , I think it 's about three hundred hectares okay , er erm , with three hundred hectares you 'll produce a , a pretty squit proportion of erm total output but farms used to be sort of one , two , three , ten hectares in size as we 've gone through the farms have amalgamated and increased in size and that 's primarily due to economies of scale , but there are a great deal of economies to be reached , once you 've got a combine harvester , once you 've got big machinery alright . |
| 23 | By the late nineteenth century Champagne had become big business , as the very industrialised impression of this drawing of Moët & Chandon 's bottling hall depicts |
| 24 | By 1896 , his enterprise had become big business and he had more than 60 products . |
| 25 | The CWS , and later the Scottish CWS , had become big business . |
| 26 | Nazi-hating had become big business . |
| 27 | ‘ Chelsea are a big club and have got big support . |
| 28 | But the price tags attached to the various deals over the past year have also shown that musicians and copyright have become big business . |
| 29 | As the heritage boom gathers pace , made-to-measure company and family biographies have become big business . |
| 30 | Charity Christmas cards have become big business over the years , but it 's not always clear just how much they benefit charitable organisation . |