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

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1 America 's Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , to be built in Texas , will be the largest and most expensive machine in the world .
2 From here , the grim Hazar Ustan or Thousand Pillared Palace , Tughluk ruled the largest and most powerful empire India had known since the time of Ashoka , one and a half millennia previously .
3 It was completed in 1819 at what was then the staggering cost of £163,457 and was the largest and most imposing building in the town .
4 Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . ,
5 That is why , from the very beginning , the Sevso saga , one of the largest and most far-reaching art scandals ever , has been treated as a top secret issue in Yugoslavia .
6 Treasury Economic Secretary Tony Nelson , opening a debate on Lord Justice Bingham 's report on the BCCI collapse , said the disaster was ‘ the largest and most wide-ranging fraud in the history of banking ’ .
7 We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK .
8 In the largest and most controversial privatization to date , the government announced on June 14 that it had sold Telecom to two United States companies , Bell Atlantic and American Information Technologies ( Ameritech ) , for NZ$4,250 million .
9 With sections touching on the Spanish Luftwaffe and Training for War , this book will be snapped up by all those interested in the largest and most colourful fleet of warbirds in the world .
10 As we suggested , this applies even to the largest and most prestigious search firms .
11 Er , in addition if you were to walk into the headquarters there today , in their trophy case the largest and most prestigious trophy is the Moller trophy .
12 But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city ?
13 Coopers has Deloitte UK , which is the largest and most influential practice outside the US .
14 With nearly 300 years of insurance experience , SUN ALLIANCE is one of the largest and most experienced insurance groups in the UK , and has an unrivalled reputation in providing first-class insurance products .
15 According to De Quincey , Coleridge had ‘ the largest and most spacious intellect , the subtlest and most comprehensive that has existed among men ’ .
16 As befits its largest city , Cardiff boasts the largest and most comprehensive institute of higher education in the Principality , with the exception of the Polytechnic of Wales at Treforest : the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education which was formed by the amalgamation of the Cardiff College of Food Technology and Commerce , Cardiff College of Education , Cardiff College of Art , and Llandaff College of Technology .
17 The poll , for the Press Association , is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the campaign .
18 Harrogate 89 was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever , featuring more than 260 exhibitors from 14 countries .
19 In the 1860s Gaskell , Deacon & Co. was among the largest and most successful chemical works in Widnes , owing to Gaskell 's commercial management and Deacon 's method of recovering chlorine for bleaching-powder manufacture .
20 By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period .
21 The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor .
22 Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) .
23 The mouth of the River Exe is the largest and most important estuary for birds in the south-west peninsula of Devon and Cornwall .
24 At a cost of at least $1,900 million , the implementation of UNTAC would be the largest and most costly operation in the UN 's history .
25 The largest and most valuable part of the would-be treasure trove has disappeared altogether .
26 When the largest and most ambitious building projects , the so-called ‘ palaces ’ , are interpreted as temples , that preoccupation with religion is thrown into even higher relief .
27 The largest and most exciting lighting store in Great Britain is now open in the Kings Road .
28 The largest and most exciting lighting store in Great Britain is not open in the Kings Road .
29 As two leading historical demographers have recently stressed : " The largest and most obvious effect of the sharp rise in population in the eighteenth century was on the national average wage of labour . "
30 The largest and most significant effect of the glitch is seen to be the persistent change in slowdown rate , amounting to 0.04% .
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