Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] large [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confidence which was necessary for the successful functioning of a coinage tended to encourage a conservative approach to its design , and one of the largest and most abundant coinages of the ancient world , that of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC , deliberately preserved an archaic appearance , as a comparison with more up-to-date treatments of the same subject reveals ( fig. 9 ) . |
| 2 | The company is now recognised as one of the largest and most important manufacturers of veterinary ethical pharmaceutical products in the world , with own-label and contract manufacturing services provided . |
| 3 | One of the largest and most beautiful grottoes in the world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It did not happen in some weird sect but in one of the largest and most prestigious Presbyterian churches in the Los Angeles area . |
| 6 | ( Our babyfood range is one of the largest and most varied you can buy . ) |
| 7 | A new nature reserve on the Somerset Levels , near Glastonbury , which will eventually form part of one of the largest and most important wetlands in Europe , has been formally opened by Sir David Attenborough . |
| 8 | Northern Foods was one of the largest and most successful companies in the country , with a steady record of expansion which was beginning to attract foreign investment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The renewed debate over whether to close the entire ancient centre of Rome to traffic , and in particular the Via dei Fori Imperiali which runs from Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum , slicing in half one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in the world , is charged with political meaning . |
| 11 | This is one of the largest and most important of all the constellations . |
| 12 | Elsewhere in the Province there are other settlements worthy of consideration and one of the largest and most interesting , is that at Braughing . |
| 13 | The Metropolitan 's 33,000 textiles constitute one of the largest and most varied collections in the world . |
| 14 | A connoisseur of French and Italian drawings , Jacob Bean managed to double the number of European drawings in the collection to more than 4,000 , making it one of the largest and most distinguished in the States . |
| 15 | One of the largest and most distinctive larks , larger than a Skylark ( p. 205 ) , with a long slightly curved bill and striking black and white wing-pattern , both features somewhat recalling Hoopoe ( p. 191 ) . |
| 16 | La Paysanne , executed at La Rue-des-Bois ( where Picasso spent most of August ) , or shortly after Picasso 's return to Paris , is one of the largest and most powerful of the group . |
| 17 | As a matter of fact , he owns one of the largest and most innovative architectural companies in Europe . |
| 18 | Indonesia is one of the largest and most rapidly developing of the new states , of considerable economic and strategic significance to the rest of the world . |
| 19 | The commercial agora on Ephesos was one of the largest and most impressive in the world . |
| 20 | The Heath was preserved as an open space and by 1900 the country villas of prosperous businessmen and professional families made Hampstead ‘ one of the largest and most prosperous of the well-to-do residential suburbs of London ’ . |
| 21 | It was the start of a brewing business that , some 200 years later , would be one of the largest and most profitable in the world , a business which would be based on the dark , bitter stout that bore his name — Guinness . |
| 22 | Aion , created by sculptor Hamish Horsley out of Portland stone and slate , was one of the largest and most prestigious exhibits during the event at Gateshead in 1990 . |
| 23 | Luckham 's survey was one of the largest and best known . |
| 24 | As a member of the HAE , and one of the largest and best known hire companies in Europe , HSS is well-equipped to meet all your hiring requirements . |
| 25 | Tucked away at the foot of the steep Tibbiwell Lane is the site of one of the largest and longest worked mills in Painswick , Brookhouse Mill . |
| 26 | This is one of the largest and earliest of Greek Byzantine churches . |
| 27 | Ibstock , however , as one of the largest and lowest cost producers , says that all bar one of its bricks plants are in the black . |
| 28 | All that remains of the Port Ellen library is the brass Plaque and five volumes in the Gaelic which bear the date 1905 and one of them is number 305 , so it must have been one of the largest as well as one of the early ones . |