Example sentences of "[prep] big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people in NoS had to be made to realize that if they were going after big money , professional management had to come in . |
| 2 | Mottle Foin , the only foin on which trees grew , little stunted pines making a black dappling on its surface , was the highest hill on the moor after Big Allen and now its rocky hump hid the Milder 's northerly curves , Pierce Foin and all of Lustley Dale . |
| 3 | Browning will parade his talents in front of England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy against Cambridge United at the Abbey Stadium tonight after Big Mal persuaded Big Lawrie , the England Under-21 squad manager , to take a look at the Bristol-born former YTS lad . |
| 4 | News of the deal accompanied annual results for Lex showing pre-tax profits soaring from only £500,000 last time to £28.3 million on a normalised basis , after big changes in the group . |
| 5 | I 'm after big bikkies . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , less than three months after Big Bang , the start of the Solidarity-led government 's package of strict austerity and radical market reforms , Poland is in ruins . |
| 7 | Dealing spreads , pared wafer-thin after Big Bang , have widened a bit . |
| 8 | By October 1987 a year after Big Bang , the inflated City salaries were slipping . |
| 9 | They found that the average gross proportionate mispricing fell from an underpricing of 0.5% before Big Bang , to an underpricing of 0.2% after Big Bang . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , soon after Big Bang , things settle down and eventually start to tighten up . ’ |
| 11 | Firms can diversify their activities by operating in several markets ( e.g. eurobonds and UK equities ( after Big Bang ) ) . |
| 12 | Placings were the most popular method of issue over 1985–89 , although the average size at £6m was considerably smaller than offers for sale and tenders at £62.3 and £32.8 million respectively , reflecting the fact that smaller companies tend to go for placings as they tend to be cheaper ( see Table 11.2 ) and placings have also become more popular as a result of the requirements for the size of company using a placing being relaxed after Big Bang . |
| 13 | With the increased number of market-makers after Big Bang it would be expected that spreads and commissions would fall , |
| 14 | The rolling system and TAURUS will , however , reduce the settlement delay , and concomitant risks of non-settlement , which were very real in the back-log of unsettled deals after Big Bang . |
| 15 | He lit it with the air of a man considering big moves in the Irish tobacco market . |
| 16 | Public opinion polls , furthermore , provided additional evidence of that ambiguity , showing that many Americans had negative attitudes towards big government , but by large majorities wished to preserve , if not extend , the ‘ service state ’ . |
| 17 | On Sept. 5 Belize also guaranteed Guatemala ( i ) permanent access to the Caribbean from the adjacent Guatemalan department of Petén ; ( ii ) the use of port facilities , especially that of Big Creek for the export of bananas ; and ( iii ) the right to participate in joint ventures such as oil exploration in Belize 's maritime exclusive economic zone . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ We would want to discourage the needless use of big gas guzzlers . |
| 19 | THE trainer who made a living as the ghostly architect of big race success has finally etched his own name in the record books . |
| 20 | Such small markets are well within the sights of big investors , who are used to putting vast amounts into the currency and bond markets . |
| 21 | Broadly , of course , it meant pro-Russian or pro-Communist but it could also mean an opponent of big business or of big unionism or a proponent of birth control or atheism . |
| 22 | ( Cottage cheese seems to be a term now applied almost entirely , and characteristically , in our looking-glass culinary language , to the thin and acid skim-milk product of big dairy factories . |
| 23 | At the centre of Jansen sumptuous tent city was a sort of Big Top , where receptions and dinners were to take place . |
| 24 | There was a strong upward surge in drugs shares early , but The floods swept insurance prices lower , with talk of big claims lopping 9p-12p off General Accident , Royal , Sun Alliance and Commercial Union . |
| 25 | By opposing new clause 4 and amendment No. 17 , the Minister seems to be trying to deny to the people who will be transferred to the new privatised subsidiaries the kind of benefits enjoyed by members of big schemes , such as the existing scheme . |
| 26 | In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers . |
| 27 | How could she be sure this was a genuine UK species of big cat , Ms Rippon asked ? |
| 28 | All 36 species of big cat are either vulnerable or endangered and the tiger , the cheetah , the snow leopard , the jaguar and the cougar are now facing extinction . |
| 29 | ‘ These kittens will play an important part in securing the future for this beautiful species , ’ says Doug Richardson , who is in charge of big cat breeding at the zoo . |
| 30 | In this land of big boots and Stetson hats , it 's probably hard to be ( m ) . |