Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight . |
| 2 | They had carried out a large number of ferrying and bridging operations , in addition to the more usual Engineer jobs of demolitions and dry bridging using the Medium Girder Bridge . |
| 3 | This group has carried out a large multicentre study on glucose tolerance in normal pregnancy . |
| 4 | Pest Control Baldock recently carried out a large bubble fumigation job in Peterborough , and came out smelling of roses . |
| 5 | Because of this the investigators subsequently carried out a larger trial ( in 86 babies ) , which did not confirm either the reduction in haemorrhage or the increase in mortality . |
| 6 | This rule , still in existence while Visa and Mastercard fight a rearguard action with the Office of Fair Trading , prevents banks from processing card transactions until they have built up a large base of card-holders . |
| 7 | Over the centuries , these conditions had built up a large population with a high level of energy . |
| 8 | Stemming from the poor and insignificant Landais lordship of Labrit , they had built up a large territorial holding along the Atlantic coast of Aquitaine . |
| 9 | He said that before the war Japan had built up a large international textile trade , part of which in his view , was legitimate and part illegitimate . |
| 10 | Josselin gradually built up a large farm in Earls Colne , starting with a land purchase in 1646 . |
| 11 | I am told you have bought up a large quantity of corn lately , which has been the means of raising the price of corn to such a degree , as to incense the tinners so much against you … that I am credibly informed no less than a thousand of them will be with you tomorrow early : they are first to assemble at Chacewater and then proceed for Falmouth . |
| 12 | Lloyds Register of Shipping was to have set up a large administration centre next to Junction ( 16 ) Sixteen of the M-Four , but it 's chosen a site in Hampshire instead . |
| 13 | They were now gathered around a large rock , on which stood a rather ordinary looking , dark haired , middle-aged man . |
| 14 | Although the Museum has put on a large number of successful temporary exhibitions , the display of its permanent collection has been subject to difficulties and delays . |
| 15 | We had a good write-up in the Southampton Echo , I remember we nearly drowned the reporter as he insisted on being put on a large mooring buoy in Southampton Water in order to get a photograph of Valiant at speed . |
| 16 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 17 | Not only have the Government disregarded the electricity supply industry 's disdain for that achievement , but they have sat idly by and watched collieries close which , in the past five years , have taken up a large part of that sum of money about which the Minister boasted just a moment ago . |
| 18 | Kim Kethavy , the party 's leader , made his fortune from petrol stations in California and has put up a large slogan outside his office in Phnom Penh 's Market Square proclaiming ‘ Communism is evil ’ . |