Example sentences of "[art] large [noun] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 An adjustment of the rate support grant gave inner urban areas more resources and the urban programme was expanded , introducing central/local partnerships for the largest cities and more limited programmes for smaller towns .
2 Yet in spite of its obvious advantages it has not been received with any enthusiasm by the large corporations or indeed funding bodies of any description .
3 The disease had recurred at a previous ileocolonic anastomosis in seven patients and predominantly affected the small bowel , the large bowel and both small and large intestine in nine , nine , and eight patients respectively .
4 As a result of different levels of personal mobility , the former types of place have tended to attract people who are younger , better qualified , more enterprising and more wealthy and have thus gained at the expense of the larger cities and less dynamic industrial areas , causing the latter a double blow in terms of both quantity and quality .
5 He was a big , clumsy boy of about fourteen , with a large head and very small eyes .
6 Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants .
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