Example sentences of "have [verb] big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never well you must 've looked big Deb cos you 're small . |
| 2 | Like Hick , all-rounder Lewis has made big strides on this tour despite England 's struggles . |
| 3 | None of the western papers has made big inroads in east Berlin and Brandenburg . |
| 4 | The USM has had big successes , such as the Burford Group , a property investment company which came to the market in March 1986 at 80p , and in September 1987 was trading at 420p . |
| 5 | But the influx of tourists and the money they 've pumped into the economy has had big advantages . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that anybody who sits around and does n't make the investment has got big problems coming in the future . |
| 7 | But there is no getting away from the fact that Howard has got big problems . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rugby has become big business and a spectator sport . |
| 10 | Criminal legal aid has become big business for lawyers . |
| 11 | The water industry has become big business . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Over the last 30 years , research has become big business , and has been a key element in the formation of new academic disciplines . |
| 14 | Charity has become big business . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has become big business with a huge amount of money riding on the outcome . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On one artefact from Nevada , for instance , Newman has identified big cat , sheep , bison and bear blood residues . |
| 19 | But for the largest banks the whole business has meant big pickings … ’ |
| 20 | This has meant big cuts in some scientific areas . |
| 21 | Volkswagen has fitted bigger engines to compensate for the extra weight of the stronger and safer structure of the latest version . |
| 22 | She has to make big reports you know . |
| 23 | The water watchdog , Office of Water Services ( OFWAT ) , has predicted big increases in water bills . |
| 24 | After a period of exceptionally rapid growth in lending , British banks too have had to make big provisions for bad debts ; defaults are growing faster than during the recession of 1980–81 . |
| 25 | Eighteen months ago , says business logistics director Alex Shepherd , the company would only have considered big names like IBM and Hewlett Packard . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Moreover , although private investment will play much the biggest role in the East 's economic renewal , the government in Bonn will have to give big subsidies to the East German social-security system . |
| 28 | ‘ Norwegian football is semi-professional by law , so English clubs do n't have to pay big wages and the fee for a top player is only about £400,000 . |
| 29 | Ted Deerhurst is one of the few Englishmen to have attempted big Waimea . |
| 30 | 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 |