Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a bigger [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included care of the mentally ill ( which then also included the elderly with mental disability ) — these categories which should have received a bigger slice of the cake , actually received a smaller percentage of health board funding during the funding period from 1981–82 to 1985–86 . |
| 2 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 3 | The cat must have got a bigger shock . |
| 4 | You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ? |
| 5 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Big industry will have to take a bigger share of the professional clubs . |
| 8 | Well , I think the idea is , that certainly large hotels could afford to pay a bigger collective bill than they 're paying at the moment . |
| 9 | Although private residential homes are typically independent family businesses , if the same happens in Britain as happened in the United States , then large companies may come to occupy a bigger share of the market . |