Example sentences of "a big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are lots of planting opportunities left for the season : I would like to try a little herbary , for example , and go for a bigger emphasis on autumn colour . |
| 2 | This already provides a bigger contribution to the balance of payments than either remittances or shipping , and the Ministry of National Economy bubbles with ideas for making it still larger . |
| 3 | I want a bigger bike but she 's not gon na ride it until she 's had the baby . |
| 4 | Increases are given when the husband or wife Teaches 65 , with a bigger increase still at 75 . |
| 5 | A bigger increase of 3.5% is expected in 1994 , the study says . |
| 6 | If the hon. Gentleman says that all the costs have to be borne by BT , that will simply mean an even bigger reduction in BT 's profits and a bigger increase in its investment programme . |
| 7 | There 's a bigger doubt though , over Martin Ling , who 's got a calf strain . |
| 8 | Perhaps to resist manipulation by a cuckoo you need bigger eyes or a bigger brain , which would have overhead costs . |
| 9 | The shape when seen from the air is like a bit stuck on a bigger bit . |
| 10 | Got one with a bigger bit gave . |
| 11 | Some of them are on a bigger level . |
| 12 | When I was about ten years old , a trip to the village from the South end was a bigger thrill than a trip to a big city would be to a present day child , later working in the village as a teenager , the dances every Saturday and Monday night was enjoyment never to be forgot . |
| 13 | In an era when the commercial opportunities now open to leading players often become a bigger issue that the game itself , the recent actions of the USA Eagles make news for an entirely different reason . |
| 14 | The Holy Spirit is a bigger issue . |
| 15 | The Holy Spirit is a bigger issue . |
| 16 | and ninety six point five , this is Trent always playing a bigger music mix . |
| 17 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
| 18 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 19 | But Arnold Thomas smelled a bigger profit from the up-and-coming developers who were looking to build back-to-backs for the mill-workers . |
| 20 | do is end up making a bigger profit |
| 21 | ‘ Eric left a bigger windfall than Bertha expected . |
| 22 | You 've got a bigger problem than I have , though — you ca n't leave here but I can . |
| 23 | Besides — ’ he could n't resist prodding Gurder gently , ' — there 's a bigger problem , too . |
| 24 | But there is a bigger problem than timing in using aggregate ROE as a guide to capacity . |
| 25 | If there was flies and rats over every dead thing round here , we 'd have a bigger problem than what we 've got . ’ |
| 26 | The call by Griffiths for ‘ clear agreements ’ is obviously justified , but their achievement may prove to be a bigger problem than either Griffiths or the government anticipate . |
| 27 | getting him off the dodgems perhaps will be a bigger problem . |
| 28 | String theories , however , have a bigger problem : they seem to be consistent only if space-time has either ten or twenty-six dimensions , instead of the usual four ! |
| 29 | A bigger problem that converting between video standards is that fact that most older monitors are simply not up to working with the high resolutions that the PC needs . |
| 30 | I would support strongly a bigger Government grant for acquisitions because there are many good uses to which it could be put . |