Example sentences of "have been [art] big " in BNC.

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31 The acquisition of Wheeling Stamping in the US — now Thatcher Tubes and Knight Engineering — has been a big step and is a very valuable addition to Courtaulds Packaging .
32 This speciality has been the big growth area for PR in recent years .
33 Judas has been the big winner lately , now he 'd be cockier than ever , and it was my fault .
34 ‘ David McCallen has been the big difference to Bangor .
35 The real find of the season has been the big Bath lock-forward , Andy Reed .
36 It has been the biggest frustration of my career . ’
37 But he said : ‘ It has been the biggest mistake of my life . ’
38 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 .
39 Pickering , with all his experience , has been the biggest let down .
40 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 .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 There 'd been a big robbery in Dublin : hundred thousand taken and the bank manager shot dead . ’
44 ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place .
45 ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city .
46 There 'd been a big square of white cloth amongst them , which a group of nomes had managed to tie around the human 's mouth after its mooing got on everyone 's nerves .
47 That 'd been the big question .
48 The recent single , Love You All My Lifetime , should have been a bigger hit and shows that Chaka can still sound as if she 's bursting with all the joys of spring .
49 Or it might have been a bigger concern than I ken .
50 As an example to the world that the young were powerful , that money was not the be-all and end-all , Apple could hardly have been a bigger failure .
51 Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth .
52 ‘ It must have been a big shock .
53 It was hideous and awesome ; it must have been a big animal .
54 It could have been a big day for B.C. 's new president , Vancouver businessman Chuck Plester , but Graf was inches wide with another penalty in injury time .
55 ‘ But it could have been a big jet .
56 I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said .
57 If that was where Harry had died , there should have been a big area quarantined off with tape .
58 The Goblin King , Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain , infamous old Goblin Warlord and Lord of the Crags , was suddenly and unexpectedly struck by what could have been a big rock were it not for the sploshy red stuff that exploded from it , showering the goblin horde .
59 ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform .
60 There were thus several attempts to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang singularity and hence a beginning of time .
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