Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] largest [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ltd. following an amalgamation when they became the second largest cement firm in Britain , and it was incorporated into the A.P.C.M. combine in 1900 . |
| 2 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 3 | Well north of Leh — the mystical capital of Ladakh — lies the second largest glacier in Asia . |
| 4 | The CPCz did better than expected , becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council . |
| 5 | Say the next largest ratio is R' . |
| 6 | Egypt has the second largest population in Africa ( after Nigeria ) and in 1983 was the fourth largest oil producer . |
| 7 | Mexico has the seventh largest oil and gas reserves in the world but the country 's comparatively recent admission to the hydrocarbon élite has proved a mixed blessing in the face of the fall in crude prices and a massive debt burden caused by extravagant , ill-managed and grandiose schemes to kick a Third World country into the twentieth century . |
| 8 | Canada has the eighth largest coal resources in the world and the eighth largest gas reserves . |
| 9 | Malaysia has the fourteenth largest gas reserves in the world at some 926 MTOE . |
| 10 | In terms of recoverable energy reserves India has the tenth largest coal reserves in the world while Pakistan has gas reserves almost as large as the UK , yet economic growth in both countries is hampered by recurrent energy shortages — particularly electricity — while the cost of importing oil is a severe drain on weak exchequers . |
| 11 | This is currently being undertaken in Britain , which has the fourth largest telephone system in the world . |
| 12 | If Sinn Fein do not hold the vacant seat , the DUP will become the second largest party in the Guildhall with five representatives . |
| 13 | In January , after a three-year C$58 million expansion and renovation , the Art Gallery of Ontario ( AGO ) will become the seventh largest art museum in North America . |
| 14 | Televisa administrators project that this year the organisation will become the fourth largest presence in Europe . |
| 15 | Should the shareholders of Tyne Tees accept their directors ' recommendation the combined group will become the third largest television company in the UK . |
| 16 | Poly-unsaturated fats should constitute the next largest share of your fat intake , after mono-unsaturated fats . |
| 17 | In the St Ann 's study , the sick and disabled constituted the fourth largest category of the poor . |
| 18 | Cleveland 's Districts suffered even more from the vagaries of the system , experiencing the second largest increase ( 8.9 per cent ) , followed by the largest decrease ( -13.2 per cent ) and then the largest increase ( 20.8 per cent ) . |
| 19 | In Britain local authority ( council ) housing has become the second largest sector of the housing market , holding considerable social significance in local areas . |
| 20 | It is the national insurance contributions that have become the second largest element , with 17 per cent of the total . |
| 21 | Virgin , which owns the sixth largest record company worldwide , will make the formal announcement today in London , writes Mary Fagan . |
| 22 | The multiple linear regression analysis showed that access to a hospital dietitian gave the second largest contribution to explaining variance in the random haemoglobin A 1 value . |
| 23 | The new TI becomes the second largest engineering firm in the UK and one of the biggest in Europe |
| 24 | The Liberal gains were bigger , but Labour , with 191 seats , remained the second largest party . |
| 25 | In communal elections in Innsbruck on Sept. 24 the FPÖ and the local version of the Green Alternatives ( Grüne Alternativen — GA ) won seats and votes from both the ÖVP and the SPÖ , although the ÖVP remained the strongest party ; in Salzburg province on Oct. 8 the FPÖ improved its position while the SPÖ and the ÖVP both suffered losses ; in Lower Austria and Styria on March 25 , 1990 , the ÖVP retained its dominant position despite losing votes and seats to the FPÖ and the GA , while the SPÖ remained the second largest party ; and in Vorarlberg on April 1 the SPÖ lost its absolute majority on the Bregenz municipal council , which was taken over by an ÖVP chair . |
| 26 | The UK not only remained the second largest source , after the USA , for foreign direct investment , but increased in importance after 1979 when the first Thatcher government abandoned most controls on the foreign exchange of sterling currency . |
| 27 | In the March 12 elections in Carinthia the FPÖ had overtaken the ÖVP to become the second largest party in the province [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 28 | The right-wing Liberal Party ( FPÖ ) , campaigning on an anti-immigrant platform and led by the populist Jörg Haider , more than doubled its vote in Vienna in municipal elections on Nov. 10 , to become the second largest party in the city parliament . |