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We still have big water issues following the Havelock North water crisis.
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No idea what half those big words mean but, yes, good point.
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The paper sheds new light on a big issue for technology companies.
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The big question now is: Can Quora really hope to answer everything?
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New firms offering 'big data' solutions to bond traders continue to emerge.
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He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
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I am not bragging of it; I am only stating a fact.
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She's been bragging to my other cousins all week that you're coming.
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But it is an opportunity for the supporters to get bragging rights.
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If I were in your place I'd go around bragging about it.
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And, at one level at least, their crowing was easy to understand.
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He laughed; a high, chuckling, crowing laugh; the laugh of triumphant optimism.
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It was morning now; the cock was still crowing down at Sirilund.
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From somewhere outside, she heard a crowing sound and looked up expectantly.
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The animals were in the southeast corner, mooing and crowing and baying.
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Jason Barnett and Michele Austin are equally good as the boastful neighbours.
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How many times in your life have you heard this boastful remark:
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I grow boastful; I am an old man and should know better.
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She was surprised to hear something almost boastful in her own tone.
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And while he was there he heard the Giant speak boastful words.
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Women such as I am are not won in this braggart fashion.
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He'd been such a shameless braggart that the crowd couldn't help cheering.
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That man may have been a convict; but he is no braggart.
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Something in his pose, half rustic, half braggart, seemed familiar to Gaspard.
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He tried hard to despise the braggart, but ended with envying him.
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He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.
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My heart began to pound, beating against my chest, pummeling my ribs and getting all braggy about its muscle strength.
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One day, will our children turn to us and ask, "Mommy and Daddy, why was all of your hip-hop performed by braggy robots?"
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The second day out he was feelin' pretty braggy and uppish for a stowed-away conspirator that owed his existence to a mule and stolen bananas.
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Granger was at Braggy's late headquarters in bed.
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To read their press, Conservatives should be cock-a-hoop at Labour's policy splurge.
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Australia, newly-crowned Tri-Nations champions are cock-a-hoop after their bonus point win over Italy.
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UK property website Zoopla, which is also contemplating a float, must be cock-a-hoop.
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This week, they arrive buoyant and cock-a-hoop, ready to take on the world.
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Naturally, the artist was cock-a-hoop about the outcome and who can blame her?
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He was not interested in self-aggrandizing or having his name in lights.
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Is there some basic right which self-aggrandizing politicians seek to destroy first?
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Typical self-aggrandizing hyperbole, but acknowledged to be a reasonable comparison nonetheless.
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Many physicists loathe the term, fretting that it makes their discipline seem self-aggrandizing.
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Harris was affable, charming and simultaneously self-deprecating and comically self-aggrandizing.
Использование термина self-aggrandising на английском
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She's eager to avoid the cliches of sweaty torsos and self-aggrandising story-lines.
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I'm all for a healthy dose of scepticism where self-aggrandising mercy missions are concerned.
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Rock biographies are often worthy and self-aggrandising but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating.
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How self-aggrandising is that? If he had a whip to hand, he'd be lashing himself.
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There's nothing so unreliable as a criminal's self-aggrandising memoirs.
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There is a point behind all this self-aggrandising.
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Instead, he has become the most self-aggrandising and destructive agitator the modern Tory party has produced.
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These would actually have made a much more positive difference to developing countries than the self-aggrandising posturing of G20.
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It's true that much of what he had to say about his own work is absurdly convoluted and self-aggrandising.
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The 43rd so-titled awards show was among many events postponed due to that mischievous, self-aggrandising icecapade back in March.
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Expressions of welcome quickly meandered into self-aggrandising bravado, mixed with clumsy innuendo at the backward errors of the Muslims.
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And I also liked needling people and confronting them in ways that I thought would be both funny and self-aggrandising.
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Dyke instead busied himself with a headline-grabbing mission to win the World Cup by 2022 and his self-aggrandising chairman's commission.
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It's an incredibly democratic process, so I think it would come across as self-aggrandising if I said that my chances were super high.
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The first lady's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham has dubbed the book "wildly self-aggrandising" revenge from a woman who joined the ranks of the president's enemies.