Example sentences of "has [verb] the big [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Conservative management of the economy has stoked the biggest credit boom in Britain 's history . |
2 | Britain has attracted the biggest concentration of investment from Japan , and the Japanese feel comfortable with the Conservatives , even if they reserve their deepest admiration for Mrs Thatcher . |
3 | Palo Alto , California-based interface specialist , Neuron Data Inc , has won the biggest feather in its cap to date , securing a deal with IBM Corp for version 2.0 of its Open Interface builder launched last year ( UX Nos 386 , 408 ) . |
4 | Finally there is the flexible workforce of part-timers and temporary workers which has seen the biggest employment growth since the early 1980s , particularly in the service sector , and accounts for the majority of the growth in female employment . |
5 | Among the Arabs , Saudi Arabia , which had invested great prestige in the plan , has suffered the biggest setback . |
6 | Among the Arabs , Saudi Arabia , which had invested great prestige in the plan , has suffered the biggest setback . |
7 | Oxfordshire snooker star Tessa Davidson has made the big break into the game 's elite . |
8 | Marius Gabriel The Original Sin ( Arrow ) Passionate big read that has had the big hype . |
9 | But Daly has had the big finger pointed at him before , for excessive drinking , for allegedly smashing up hotel rooms on the minor tours , for his whole attitude . |
10 | Jimmy Walker is celebrating a juicy record — the green-fingered genius has got the biggest melon in Britain ! |
11 | It 'll involve us developing visiting schemes , under eight services , helping families in different ways , improving services for disabled children , developing family centres , and a new specific — this 'll might amuse you this — a new specific responsibility for us to inspect and register the care practices of private schools in the County , and Oxfordshire has got the biggest number of those in the whole country . |
12 | Driven by his ferocious determination to be first , Microsoft , based in Redmond , in Washington state , has become the biggest software company in the world . |
13 | Now Nigel has become the biggest noise in steam |
14 | Thanks to the English invasion , this French store has become the biggest seller of beer in the whole country . |
15 | Half a decade on , global warming has become the biggest environment story . |
16 | On the whole , it has suited the big powers to have mediocre or self-effacing diplomats . |
17 | This experimental law has caused the biggest outcry even before it has been played . |
18 | ‘ Souness has inherited the biggest mess at Anfield that I can remember and in trying to get himself out of it he has at times become even more bogged down . |
19 | But in his absence no-one was capable of providing it and that must be hugely worrying for Wilkinson , who has taken the biggest gamble of his successful career by selling the striker . |