Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the large " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed . |
| 2 | Jim Davidson sent six bottles of champagne with a card saying , ‘ What a way to get into the papers , ’ and one evening I received the largest basket of poinsettias I 've ever seen , totally stunning , with a card saying , ‘ Thinking of you — lots of love , Elton . ’ |
| 3 | I repaired the large drone as best I could , using a piece of sticking plaster from the First Aid kit , and then decided to try them out . |
| 4 | Accompanied by a friend , Tommy Clarke , I joined the large demonstration of protest organised by the Scottish Labour Movement . |
| 5 | Like many other pre-pubescent boys of the time , I spent the larger part of the Seventies with my shorts round my ankles , making magician 's hands ( raised above the shoulders , fingers splayed ) and shouting the incantation at a hairless and not especially elephantine willy . |
| 6 | I saw the largest bare belly I 'd ever seen in life . |
| 7 | ‘ However , I think the large institutional investors , who make up the lion 's share of the market , will be interested in NIE if they see there will be a good return . ’ |
| 8 | Heather and I had the large front room on the right of the entrance , which we understood had been a music room , and where Byron , in a temper had thrown an ink bottle at a maid . |
| 9 | This is why unqualified reports which cite the large , or small , number of TV channels which a coaxial cable can carry are meaningless . |
| 10 | Major unworked low-grade stockwork deposits occur at Hemerdon ( Section 5.6 ) , which represents the largest resource of tungsten in Britain , and at Cligga Head on the north Cornwall coast . |
| 11 | It also owned 17 ships , and shared ownership of four more with the L & YR , which owned the largest fleet . |
| 12 | Everyone was closing their the theatres , but the independents and smaller circuits closed proportionally more , thus shifting the proportion of the box office take in favour of the conglomerates which owned the larger and more salubrious houses . |
| 13 | At Stonesfield , the roundel which contains the large geometric panel is bordered by four lozenge swastikas , comparable to those in four of the Woodchester geometric panels . |
| 14 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union , which has the largest block vote ( 1.3m ) , is abstaining . |
| 15 | There 's an interesting Folk Museum at Schloss Ritzen in Saalfelden , which has the largest collection of Christmas cribs in Austria . |
| 16 | When comparing fractions some pupils may compare numerators only or select as the largest fraction the one which has the largest numerator and largest denominator . |
| 17 | Thus the fractions selected for comparison must require the pupils to consider both numerator and denominator and the largest fraction must not be one which has the largest numerator and denominator . |
| 18 | The CTD bond is the Treasury 122 per cent 2003 05 , which has the largest implied repo rate of 5.44 per cent . |
| 19 | Nescafe is made by the giant food multinational , Nestle , which has the largest share of the baby milk market in developing countries . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , when combined analysis is carried out it is age of acquisition which has the larger effect than any of the cognitive variables . |
| 21 | Burton , which has the large medieval church , is a very small hamlet ; Temple Hardwick has been ‘ recolonised ’ by an army depot ; Dassett Southend has a farm , a ruined medieval chapel of St James , and a priest 's house , and is now threatened by the construction of the M42 motorway . |
| 22 | Acknowledging the concepts of Dansereau ( 1957 ) that man creates new genotypes and new ecosystems , he considers nature without man as natural biogeography in Part I of his book and then uses this as a datum against which to set the larger Part II in which cultural biogeography is concerned with the effects of man in changing the genetic make-up of plants and animals , in redistributing them over the earth 's surface , and in altering the structure of many ecosystems . |
| 23 | Also , for the same case , we determine the sign of the elements of A which multiply the larger of the two coordinates from eqn ( 6.4 ) . |
| 24 | Classes in the faculty are normally conducted in New College , a striking historic building on the Mound in central Edinburgh which includes the largest theological library in Britain . |
| 25 | The various groups keep a fairly sharp difference between them , centering their activities , not least through the exigencies of the two languages , in their own areas : essentially in the East ( French ) and West ( English — which includes the large Scottish and ‘ other ’ cultural elements ) . |
| 26 | With the help of the United Nations Institute for Namibia ( UNIN ) and other agencies , SWAPO developed a network of schools which served the large refugee population in camps in Angola and Zambia . |
| 27 | 3 They question the extent to which the system provides for representative governments noting not just the underrepresentation of third parties , but the fact that , in the elections of 1929 , 1951 , and February 1974 , the party which returned the largest number of MPs actually had a smaller share of the vote than the runner-up party in the Commons so that the electoral " winner " was , in fact , the governmental " loser " . |
| 28 | Is not the constituency of the hon. Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) in the middle of the area of the United Kingdom which gets the largest level of outside investment into this country and , indeed , into the European Community ? |
| 29 | This is a difficult issue which entails the larger problem of the degree to which teaching a language is also teaching a culture . |
| 30 | As we have seen , Max Weber himself appreciated the large gulf existing between the ideal position of permanent bureaucratic officials and their real position vis-a-vis party politicians . |