Example sentences of "the large [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | America 's Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , to be built in Texas , will be the largest and most expensive machine in the world . |
2 | The federal government also plans and builds the largest and most expensive central facilities with the active participation of the state governments , who can also be persuaded to find fairly large experimental facilities at universities . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The Empire is the largest and most powerful of all the many and varied realms of the Old World . |
5 | The civilization of China is among the oldest in the world , and China has throughout Japan 's history been the largest and most powerful of her Asian neighbours . |
6 | La Paysanne , executed at La Rue-des-Bois ( where Picasso spent most of August ) , or shortly after Picasso 's return to Paris , is one of the largest and most powerful of the group . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | However , the post of mayor of Sao Paulo , the largest and most powerful municipal government in the country , went to Paulo Maluf , a right-wing populist politician of the Social Democratic Party ( PDS ) with presidential ambitions , who was not only a personal friend of Collor but a former associate of Farias . |
9 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
10 | But for all of the work he has carried out , Barlow Clowes has proved to the largest and most complex in the office 's 22 year history . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . , |
13 | 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 . |
14 | That is why , from the very beginning , the Sevso saga , one of the largest and most far-reaching art scandals ever , has been treated as a top secret issue in Yugoslavia . |
15 | 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 ’ . |
16 | We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK . |
17 | The largest and most radical of the opposition parties , the Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) , led by Kim Dae Jung , was excluded from the merger . |
18 | It was the start of a brewing business that , some 200 years later , would be one of the largest and most profitable in the world , a business which would be based on the dark , bitter stout that bore his name — Guinness . |
19 | Much else in the city centre has been cleaned and restored : the neo-Romanesque Central Station of 1905 , in whose gilded ticket hall contemporary music is played ; the Gothic cathedral , the largest and most impressive in the Low Countries ; and the Grote Markt , an irregular triangle of 16th-century guild houses ( Antwerp is a town of asymmetry : one of the cathedral 's twin towers is only half-built ) . |
20 | The commercial agora on Ephesos was one of the largest and most impressive in the world . |
21 | MALAYSIA : On the west coast , Penang is the largest and most developed of the islands , with attractive beaches and an interesting history ( it is the oldest British settlement in Malaysia ) . |
22 | NICRA was the largest and most representative civil rights organisation but it was only one part of the civil rights movement and the original , pre-October NICRA was swamped by hundreds of new activists and thousands of supporters . |
23 | In the largest and most controversial privatization to date , the government announced on June 14 that it had sold Telecom to two United States companies , Bell Atlantic and American Information Technologies ( Ameritech ) , for NZ$4,250 million . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | The largest and most colourful of them showed a woman with a shotgun , blasting away at Red Indians . |
26 | ( Our babyfood range is one of the largest and most varied you can buy . ) |
27 | The Metropolitan 's 33,000 textiles constitute one of the largest and most varied collections in the world . |
28 | It did not happen in some weird sect but in one of the largest and most prestigious Presbyterian churches in the Los Angeles area . |
29 | But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city ? |
30 | As we suggested , this applies even to the largest and most prestigious search firms . |