Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] large [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | NICRA was the largest and most representative civil rights organisation but it was only one part of the civil rights movement and the original , pre-October NICRA was swamped by hundreds of new activists and thousands of supporters . |
| 4 | Harrogate 89 was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever , featuring more than 260 exhibitors from 14 countries . |
| 5 | The Peace Ballot was the largest and most sustained mobilization ever undertaken by a British peace movement — ‘ an attempt to mobilise Public Opinion on the scale of a General Election , but on a single issue . ’ |
| 6 | The Miners ' Federation , possibly because it was the largest and most militant component of the Trades Union Congress , gradually found itself isolated from the TUC General Council and its full-time officials in London . |
| 7 | He was a large and outwardly jovial man in his early fifties , with a gift for generating publicity for himself and his products . |