Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] big " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little Lough Shean led into middle-sized Lough Meenagh , until finally we faced an inland sea , Lough Allen , one of the bigger bulges in the River Shannon . |
| 2 | They want space and they would expect it to be one of the bigger cars . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there is no evidence yet of transfer to public transport ; in a small town like Buxtehude this would not be expected anyway , but in the larger city schemes it seems likely that the failure to induce any significant modal switching will be one of the bigger disappointments of the experimental programme . |
| 4 | One of the bigger problems was that Fergie believed I was taking the mickey out of him by either cheating or going soft and feigning injury . |
| 5 | The Glasgow High-Kelvinside prop AL WATT , at 6ft. 5ins and 19 stone one of the bigger ‘ beasties ’ on the British scene , discusses his shift from lock to front row forward with BILL McLAREN . |
| 6 | It was Sister Aloysius who turned her head and cried to one of the bigger girls , ‘ Go and fetch Reverend Mother ! |
| 7 | They had all disappeared except for one of the bigger branches that bent and pointed a little his way and seemed now to come and go before his very eyes as drifting mist obscured it . |
| 8 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 9 | One of the bigger vans made an effective screen at the end of a line of the unmarked pool cars , meaning that he could look them over without being seen from the main building . |
| 10 | I was able to sell out quite profitably to one of the bigger air-freight operators . |
| 11 | An attack on Kabul or on one of the bigger provincial towns was a temptation even before the Russians left . |
| 12 | An elderly lady who owned one of the bigger villas , Mrs Richards was a well-known figure on the complex , trotting along to the sauna with her parasol shielding her face from the hot sun , and eating paella regularly at Don Pedro 's restaurant before taking a dip in the pool . |
| 13 | Instead of merging with each other , or one of the bigger concerns , in the early seventies three of the smaller firms signed affiliation agreements with the American Big Three as MITI opposition was overcome by political pressure for foreign capital liberalization . |
| 14 | The last thing we want is to lose our independence to one of the big five . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Clubs will get on the box , ’ he says , ‘ if they are doing well and at home to one of the big boys . |
| 16 | One woman who grows some big vegetables , but is normally more interested in quality , said that on no account would she touch one of the big pumpkins . |
| 17 | This was Michael Ramsey 's first meeting with Eric Milner-White , whom he later came to regard as one of the big men in his life and whose photograph was on his wall when he died . |
| 18 | Therefore , if this backward boy was to get a good education , he must somehow be crammed up or taught up to scrape a scholarship at one of the big independent schools where most of the fees would be paid for scholars . |
| 19 | Moran was either mowing a new field or tossing the field ahead of them with the tedder but he joined the band of girls under the shade of one of the big beeches when Rose came with the basket and can . |
| 20 | These are edited excerpts from the book : EXTRACT from medical report form for one of the Big Five banks : ‘ For colour vision , ability to distinguish between red and black is the only requirement . ’ |
| 21 | However , the role of clouds is one of the big conundrums of climatology . |
| 22 | We met when she came with the chairman of one of the big contractors to lobby me about increasing the road-building programme , when I was a spokesman for Transport . |
| 23 | Of the seven or eight countries that secretly have nuclear weapons , or are close to having them , only one ( India ) started building a bomb because it was worried about one of the big five ( China ) . |
| 24 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
| 25 | She took a taxi outside the station and the driver promptly launched into his life history : he had worked hard all his life for one of the big oil companies , inspecting petrol pumps all over Suffolk and had been made redundant in his early fifties with the very minimum of redundancy money . |
| 26 | Philip , crouched behind one of the big beeches that grew right down close to the pool , watched the boy for his reaction . |
| 27 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 28 | Stumbling slightly , she moved out of the way , propping herself up against one of the big windows . |
| 29 | Already his mouth was watering at the prospect of sinking his teeth into a thick slice of bread liberally spread with best butter and sprinkled with sugar from one of the big sacks standing in the corner . |
| 30 | Then he unfastened one of the big sacks of sugar and pressed the bread , buttered side down , into the sweet white granules . |