Example sentences of "a big [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the back of the house was a kitchen , a bathroom and a big breakfast room with steps leading down to the back garden . |
| 2 | You will be buying at far less than it will be worth in 1996 or 1997 , when the inevitable upturn means you will see a big capital appreciation . ’ |
| 3 | A BAN on animal tests for beauty products was agreed by the EC yesterday — with a big get-out clause . |
| 4 | What has happened with him since , since he became more of a big newspaper owner , is he shifted from that and he has been known to support a Labour government in Australia and a Tory government in Britain at the same time and George Bush in the United States while supporting Keating or Bob Hawk in Australia . |
| 5 | She wore a white blouse with an ostentatious frilly jabot and a big paste spray on one lapel . |
| 6 | One thing he has discovered since his global circumnavigation , is that it 's a big conversation killer . |
| 7 | ELECTION WATCH Passive wanking Vicky Hutchings marches off with Class War , and gets a big surprise Saturday 4 April |
| 8 | Erm we was on patrol , we was going somewhere , we passed er a big factory wall , on the way back er a day later , on the wall was , go home British wog . |
| 9 | a big hole hole down between her drive and the road . |
| 10 | ROY KEANE will insist on a double escape route from Nottingham Forest before this week accepting a big pay rise . |
| 11 | The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise . |
| 12 | So I 'll be expecting a big pay rise at the end of it . |
| 13 | Extrovert Biggins is one of five survivors from the side that thumped West Brom 4-2 away and then lost 1-0 to Everton in a fourth-round ‘ home ’ tie , switched to Goodison Park to ensure a big pay day . |
| 14 | Diane had her baby in a big teaching hospital in Yorkshire : ‘ Stephen 's birth was OK — I had an epidural and forceps in the end , but it was all very calm and pain-free . |
| 15 | Should a government , which does n't have much in the way of financial resources and technical resources , should it go for erm a big teaching hospital in the capital , for example , or should it put its priorities rather on the rural area , on smaller scale , more preventive medicine ? |
| 16 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
| 17 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 18 | Joe is a big Chelsea fan … |
| 19 | ‘ We'se goin' to have a big Carol Service in the church on Christmas Eve . |
| 20 | A special boost for youngsters this year will be the appearance of decathlete Daley Thompson , himself a big tennis fan , who will be on hand to offer advice and training to youngsters in all of the 7 disciplines . |
| 21 | For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road . |
| 22 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 23 | They say there 's a big army tank with a monster on its roof bearing down on them . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Henri says he thinks he 's from a big hotel chain , and he 's trying to buy out Anpetuwi . |
| 25 | A survey late last year by Mori Building , a big development company , calculated that 85m square feet ( 7.9m square metres ) of office space is scheduled to be built — in large blocks alone — in the 23 wards of Tokyo over the next five years , 87% more than was completed in the past five . |
| 26 | Wished them both goodnight — very respectable — and drove off back to his home , a big country house in a village just north of the city , called Kahlenbergerdorf . ’ |
| 27 | Chances are Sharon , Tracy or Wayne were n't raised on a big country estate with Rupert , William , Sarah and Lucinda . |
| 28 | Proponents argue it would stabilise the pound and save Mr Lawson from resorting to the conventional answer to a currency crisis : a big emergency increase in interest rates . |
| 29 | Wilkerson bent down and handed each one of us a big ice cream carton . |
| 30 | She was instructed to take Carla with her and get her a big ice cream , and one for herself also . |