Example sentences of "be the biggest " in BNC.

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1 This is likely to be the biggest Great British Beer Festival for more than 10 years .
2 JUST possibly Cordoba ( 3.10 ) may prove to be the biggest talking horse since Mister Ed , the supernag of American television fame .
3 And when he is n't belting up to Liverpool to rejoin the Boswells , he 's busy rehearsing for what could be the biggest challenge of his career .
4 Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades .
5 Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades .
6 The new signalling system , known as automatic train protection , will be the biggest single item of expenditure arising from the crash , and is aimed at coping with the conflicting demands of high-density commuter trains and faster InterCity traffic on the same lines .
7 Agriculture would be the biggest loser , with the volume of production cut by 10.7 per cent and employment reduced because of a drop in the number of livestock .
8 Threatened by a new motorway or housing development near his home in the Chilterns , Mr Mortimer would probably be the biggest Nimby of them all .
9 They do n't know at the time , but this is to be the biggest event of the unusually hot British summer .
10 Computer-based training is expected to be the biggest professional market for multimedia in the near future .
11 It has to be the biggest shock I 've ever experienced . ’
12 Seven out of 10 expect Labour to be the biggest party and on average they predict the FT-SE 100 index will be almost 80 points lower than last night 's close of 2393.2 if Neil Kinnock is in Downing Street tomorrow .
13 If the explosive used was Semtex it would almost certainly be the biggest IRA bomb ever planted on the British mainland .
14 By the time the campaign started , and never more strongly than on polling day , I was convinced that the Tories would lose — that Labour would be the biggest party in a hung Parliament .
15 This may prove to be the most expensive contest staged in Britain , but I doubt whether it really will be the biggest since the war .
16 It will be the biggest and best show of its kind to be staged in Britain .
17 However , the rest of the complex , claimed to be the biggest in Europe and including a hotel , conference centre and extensive facilites for other sports , has , through contractual difficulties , still not been opened six months after the planned date .
18 By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification , the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe 's nations , showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe .
19 It would not be the first to do so , though it would be the biggest .
20 After British Telecom , British Gas and British Water , the electricity supply industry — which encompassed the CEGB ( and its Scottish equivalent ) , the regional distribution boards and the National Grid — was to be the biggest sell-off in the country 's industrial history .
21 Scientists are beginning to argue that psychological fitness could be the biggest hurdle to a Mars mission .
22 April 21 will be the biggest day in the 1991 road race calendar .
23 He may not be the biggest pop star in the world but he 's certainly the most unapproachable .
24 In Salah would be the biggest town for a thousand miles .
25 On Monday , the Assembly Rooms will open its doors on arts exhibition which is said to be the biggest ever promoted locally .
26 One of the waterwheels that drove machinery here was said to be the biggest in England .
27 It is a large breed and , known as the Big Red , it used to be the biggest breed in Britain .
28 Thee would be the biggest bacon joint or ham that could be afforded — and a joint of beef for a farmhouse wedding .
29 Jesus , that woman had turned out to be the biggest mistake of his life .
30 As John Netherwood , who was in charge of publicity and sponsorship in 1964 , said : ‘ To get sponsors you have to tell everybody that it is going to be the biggest event that ever was , otherwise they wo n't put their money in . ’
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