Example sentences of "be the largest " in BNC.
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| 1 | AUSTRALIAN Mutual Provident was founded as a mutual life society in 1849 and has grown to be the largest life office in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 2 | It fairly claims to be the largest in Europe . |
| 3 | The new firm will be the largest in the UK with a fee income of more than £143m . |
| 4 | It is thought to be the largest British dairy farm to go green , and the conversion — for deeply held environmental reasons — is backed by sound economic logic . |
| 5 | It was also to be the largest aircraft ever built in Britain . |
| 6 | Cuckney is chairman of 3i , which claims to be the largest venture-capital organisation in the world . |
| 7 | Fish and chips are a Northern favourite and always fresh here , but for a real treat go to Harry Ramsden 's at nearby Guiseley , said to be the largest fish and chip shop in the world — and , with its plush decor and chandeliers , a very chic chippie ! |
| 8 | One sofa measuring eight by four foot must be the largest country house sofa in captivity . |
| 9 | If the Russians do arrive on this scale it will be the largest single wave of what Israelis call aliya ( literally ‘ ascent ’ ) since the immediate post independence years in the early 1950s , a heady return to the heart of the Zionist idea at a time when the country — still fighting the Palestinian uprising , on a permanent war footing and its economy slipping into recession — is far from ready . |
| 10 | The settlement is believed to be the largest compensation payment the BBC has ever made , topping the £75,000 paid in April 1982 to Dr Sydney Gee , who ran a Harley Street slimming clinic . |
| 11 | This is reckoned to be the largest exercise of its type since the reforms were put forward , blood pressure started to rise , nostrils began to flare and so on . |
| 12 | It was unlikely that countries like Brazil , China and India , which would be the largest consumers of energy in the future , would succumb to international treaties or conventions limiting energy use at the cost of economic development . |
| 13 | C. Itoh is said to be the largest creditor , having lent Asahi Juken around ¥50 billion . |
| 14 | America 's Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , to be built in Texas , will be the largest and most expensive machine in the world . |
| 15 | At the other extreme , the NOP poll for the Independent on Sunday — giving Labour a three-point lead and putting the Liberal Democrats on only 17 per cent — would likewise result in a hung parliament , but this time one in which Labour would be the largest party with 317 seats , compared with the Tories ' 296 and the Liberal Democrats ' 14 . |
| 16 | The Games , already destined to be the largest ever , now have to find room for the extra 3,306 competitors and officials registered by the end of last month , bringing the total to 18,306 . |
| 17 | The latest Gallup survey suggests that neither the Conservatives nor Labour will have an outright majority in the new Parliament but that the Conservatives will be the largest single party . |
| 18 | It 'll be the largest in Europe — 16 acres . ’ |
| 19 | Operation Crusader , Auchinleck 's offensive to push Rommel back out of Cyrenaica , was to be the largest armoured operation undertaken by British forces at that time . |
| 20 | A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline . |
| 21 | This is especially true in the Republic of Ireland where Roman Catholicism would be the largest religious denomination and where the local chapel would be lovingly maintained by the faithful . |
| 22 | In a rural area the college may be the largest employer ( albeit a proxy one ) for miles around . |
| 23 | m pond , believed to be the largest operating solar collector in the world , was intended to provide hot water for a nearby hotel . |
| 24 | Now the CEGB is faced with defending its desire to construct a PWR at what may be the largest and most acrimonious public inquiry yet held in Britain . |
| 25 | The force is reported to be the largest of its kind and is expected to become the prototype for other parts of the country with high-tech industry . |
| 26 | Liphook 's youth set-up this year will be the largest ever : league cricket for Under-11's , Under-13 's and Under-15's in the Rother Valley League and Under-13 's 15 's and 17's in the Two Counties League . |
| 27 | ‘ Mine will be the largest sand castle . ’ |
| 28 | The focal point of Cranswick is the village green , six and a half acres , believed to be the largest in East Yorkshire . |
| 29 | The sundial on a cottage in North End was made in the 1840s and is said to be the largest in England with its twelve ft diameter . |
| 30 | The table of tank sizes and volumes supplied is not terribly clear , however a 3′ tank seems to be the largest this filter is recommended for . |