Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be a big " in BNC.
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1 | If that was where Harry had died , there should have been a big area quarantined off with tape . |
2 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
3 | ‘ It must have been a big shock . |
4 | It was hideous and awesome ; it must have been a big animal . |
5 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
6 | There were thus several attempts to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang singularity and hence a beginning of time . |
7 | Another attempt to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang , and therefore a beginning of time , was made by two Russian scientists , Evgenii Lifshitz and Isaac Khalatnikov , in 1963 . |
8 | The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970 , which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe . |
9 | There must have been a big business even when the deep litter started cos I can remember the farm next door to us working a deep litter . |
10 | It must have been a big difference when the plane was . |
11 | Well that must have been a big bit surely . |
12 | But all they could see was a big brown eye staring anxiously back at them . |
13 | It could have been a big day for B.C. 's new president , Vancouver businessman Chuck Plester , but Graf was inches wide with another penalty in injury time . |
14 | ‘ But it could have been a big jet . |
15 | The Goblin King , Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain , infamous old Goblin Warlord and Lord of the Crags , was suddenly and unexpectedly struck by what could have been a big rock were it not for the sploshy red stuff that exploded from it , showering the goblin horde . |
16 | ‘ But it could have been a big spider , ’ she said , her tone distraught as she imagined what might have happened . |
17 | If Charlie had triggered it there 'd have been a big back-up of propaganda and so on . |
18 | Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out . |
19 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
20 | With the old style of production , with a little extra help in the marketing and on the financial side , it would have been a big success . |