Example sentences of "large [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
2 | For the largest and most prominent buildings , located in that city 's Whitworth Street area , colourful cladding of their steel skeletons with elaborately moulded glazed terracotta blocks was de rigueur . |
3 | Moody and Eclipse — built by Marine Projects and distributed by Marine Secol , Britain 's largest and most caring dealer . |
4 | Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . , |
5 | This was experienced by the largest and most outstanding US corporations , all manner of industries grouped together as ‘ smokestack America ’ , and by the powerful banks and finance houses . |
6 | It was completed in 1819 at what was then the staggering cost of £163,457 and was the largest and most imposing building in the town . |
7 | According to De Quincey , Coleridge had ‘ the largest and most spacious intellect , the subtlest and most comprehensive that has existed among men ’ . |
8 | The Metropolitan 's 33,000 textiles constitute one of the largest and most varied collections in the world . |
9 | America 's Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , to be built in Texas , will be the largest and most expensive machine in the world . |
10 | On June 14 , 1989 , the largest and most expensive US space booster , the Titan-4 , was launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , successfully deploying what was thought to be a secret military satellite capable of providing early warning of nuclear attack . |
11 | London 's largest and most comprehensive bathroom and kitchen store . |
12 | London 's largest and most comprehensive bathroom and kitchen store . |
13 | As befits its largest city , Cardiff boasts the largest and most comprehensive institute of higher education in the Principality , with the exception of the Polytechnic of Wales at Treforest : the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education which was formed by the amalgamation of the Cardiff College of Food Technology and Commerce , Cardiff College of Education , Cardiff College of Art , and Llandaff College of Technology . |
14 | The poll , for the Press Association , is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the campaign . |
15 | Harrogate 89 was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever , featuring more than 260 exhibitors from 14 countries . |
16 | We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK . |
17 | From here , the grim Hazar Ustan or Thousand Pillared Palace , Tughluk ruled the largest and most powerful empire India had known since the time of Ashoka , one and a half millennia previously . |
18 | Boris Yeltsin , the leading radical populist and one of President Mikhail Gorbachev 's fiercest critics , was elected on May 29 as Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , making him de facto President of the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic . |
19 | The RSFSR , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic , on June 12 was declared a sovereign state by its Congress of People 's Deputies ( constituted in May — see pp. 37459-60 ) . |
20 | But first , Boris Yeltsin the man sacked by President Gorbachov as Moscow Communist Party Chief , has been elected leader of the Russian Federation ; Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful Republic . |
21 | Also described as Britain 's most successful industrial investment and one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects , the Thermal Oxide reprocessing Plant was completed to a deadline set six years ago . |
22 | Hailed as Britain 's most successful industrial investment and one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects , the Sellafield plant has been built to a deadline set six years ago . |
23 | THORP , which has been hailed as the ‘ envy of the nuclear world ’ by International Group Director is one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects . |
24 | Treasury Economic Secretary Tony Nelson , opening a debate on Lord Justice Bingham 's report on the BCCI collapse , said the disaster was ‘ the largest and most wide-ranging fraud in the history of banking ’ . |
25 | With sections touching on the Spanish Luftwaffe and Training for War , this book will be snapped up by all those interested in the largest and most colourful fleet of warbirds in the world . |
26 | 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 ) . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Despite the débâcle over the march , the rally had been a success and the DHAC returned to the Guildhall in late August for its largest and most successful demonstration so far , in the council chamber . |
29 | In the 1860s Gaskell , Deacon & Co. was among the largest and most successful chemical works in Widnes , owing to Gaskell 's commercial management and Deacon 's method of recovering chlorine for bleaching-powder manufacture . |
30 | The three largest and most influential Orders are the Knights Panther , the Knights of the White Wolf , and the Knights of the Blazing Sun . |