Example sentences of "[verb] the big [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it now looks inevitable that MPs and unions will be demanding the big spending schemes aimed at putting Britain back to work do exactly that . |
| 2 | In these areas there is often not enough wind to drive the bigger wind generators ; they require a minimum seven knots before they turn . |
| 3 | The Finance Houses Association , representing the biggest finance houses , told us that many of their members would say that a personal interview in an applicant 's own home , allowing the personal judgment of an experienced assessor , and an element of ‘ gut-feeling ’ would be the ideal . |
| 4 | The Hong Kong government is worried enough that , from today , it is capping harbour fees to attract the biggest ocean vessels . |
| 5 | She did a business course at weekends , stayed in Huddersfield during the week , paid for friends and helpers to stay there too , and hired the big factory machines . |
| 6 | How they put the big plastic things |
| 7 | If this latter is important , then we would expect the big rape cases which get a lot of media coverage to be especially important in the formation of beliefs , since they are more likely to be common currency for discussion than the smaller cases . |
| 8 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 9 | Pete ran ahead and opened the big glass doors as he usually did and Mum lifted him up to press the button for the lift . |
| 10 | Oh I like the big lattice ones , I , I , I made fourteen dozen small for the neighbours . |
| 11 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 12 | They did n't theek the hay stacks though , well Yes when er There was the tramp coles and then they broke them into what they called the big hay stacks but they were great big round great big |
| 13 | Heavy lorries did the big power chords and the postman whistled an old Rolling Stones number . |
| 14 | To cut down on expense he did not get the big factory spreaders but started to spread it himself with tractor and shovel . |
| 15 | Larger firms and international companies tended to offer the biggest pay rises . |
| 16 | Bunce is now the established outside centre and on an Australian tour the top players tend to get the big weekend games , and the new chums like Ellis play the easier mid-week affairs . |
| 17 | Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city . |
| 18 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 19 | Fraud investigators say he posted hundreds of fake job applications last year , a few in Russian , a few in Turkish — anything to impress the big oil companies , some of which flew him to Riyadh and Aberdeen for interviews . |
| 20 | The president accused Clinton of planning the biggest tax increases seen in US history . |