Example sentences of "be [verb] the big [noun sg] " 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 | Every day , wherever tummies are tickled and muzzles scratched , some owner somewhere will be pondering the Big Question . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were bringing the big fellow in on the three o'clock train . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the century , chemistry and physics had still been fairly cheap : the expensive sciences were astronomy and exploration with its associated natural history , the Humboldtian programme ; but by the latter half of the century physics and chemistry , though still to our eyes heavily dependent on sealing wax and string , were becoming the big science of the day . |
| 6 | This state of infinite density is called the big bang singularity . |
| 7 | VIDEO is hitting the big screen . |
| 8 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 9 | And with Deane , you are forgetting the big guy turned down a BETTER contract at Sheff Wed to join Leeds . |
| 10 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 11 | He was approaching the big speech about the Hooded Owl , the speech which Malcolm Harris had rightly claimed to be the centre of his play , the speech that the star had not once got through since he had abandoned his script . |
| 12 | Maybe that 's what I was thinking the big house was . |