11.   But they are big checks, far bigger and more plentiful than those written for the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

12.   But they also resent handing over big checks to their ex-wives.

13.   He said it would probably bar the parties from using such money for television commercials, whose cost drives the hunt for these big checks.

14.   High on his own career trajectory, Kevin is in a mood to say yes when a strange lawyer flashes a big check and tries luring him to Manhattan.

15.   How big a check?

16.   It has to do with all the big checks and the big check signers, like George Steinbrenner and Carmen Policy.

17.   Many of them write big checks to America Online because of its huge audience and its creativity in placing ads.

18.   Murdoch, however, handled the important decision-making -- and signed the big checks -- on both those deals.

19.   Other times, it causes him to earn a big check.

20.   Riordan will have to write a very big personal check to be financially competitive with Davis.