Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] large [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon accepted the title and became the largest land- and vineyard-owner on the island . |
| 2 | The firm expanded its activities still further under his direction and became the largest employer of labour in Oldham , the workforce rising from 400 in 1837 to 6,000 in 1870 . |
| 3 | His face assumed the condition of … rigid fixedness while in council … ; he kept his immense ceremonial hat on , and placed a large eagle 's wing in front of his eyes and nose ’ . |
| 4 | We grow and sell a large range of herbs and cottage garden plants in pots and we also grow many herb flowers which we dry for use in herbal garlands and baskets . |
| 5 | They are the most efficient in Europe , and they supply good quality produce and make a large contribution of £3.5 billion to the balance of payments . |
| 6 | The training grounds and living quarters of the gladiators ( Caserma dei Gladiatori ) are extensive at Pompeii and adjoin the large theatre ( 148 ) . |
| 7 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |
| 8 | The committee reported early in 1975 , and made a large number of recommendations , some endorsing the Diplock Commission and the Act , others being critical and proposing amendments to the law . |
| 9 | The great benefit to the government of the present system is that the City finances it and receives a large share of the blame when things go wrong . |
| 10 | I forgot that someone was living illegally in Paris on the floor of my home and demanding a large sum of money to leave . |
| 11 | The first Tyneside agency was the Tyne Improvement Commission which transformed the river by deepening it , rechannelling it ( to such an extent that a piece of Durham ended up North of the Tyne ) and building the largest harbour on the east coast and the only harbour of refuge accessible in all weather and tide conditions . |
| 12 | In 1898 he began observing the habits of wild birds in earnest , making detailed notes on the spot , and became a key pioneer ( as observer and interpreter ) in the ethological study of bird behaviour , introducing the words ‘ bird-watcher ’ and ‘ bird-watching ’ into the language and producing a large output of influential scientific papers and books — the latter including Bird Watching ( 1901 ) , The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands ( 1905 ) , Bird Life Glimpses ( 1905 ) , Realities of Bird Life ( 1927 ) , Thought-transference — or What ? — in Birds ( 1931 ) , and Evolution of Habit in Birds ( 1933 ) — as well as many essays ( mostly in the Saturday Review ) and several other books on popular natural history and for children . |
| 13 | 100 should be sufficient enough for most processes ; you would need to be using the SPR/SSR system very heavily and producing a large number of listings to exceed 100 simultaneous requests . |
| 14 | When he got in he went upstairs and got a large blanket . |
| 15 | At a time when many authentic works were being rediscovered and marketed , Joni conceived and painted a large number of fragmentary works . |
| 16 | In the case of families where both husband and wife worked in the textile industry , joint role relationships were common and involved a large amount of sex role equality . |
| 17 | It is already home to three artists working in the studio upstairs and has a large cafe cum exhibition space and a poetry room . |
| 18 | Chris likes music , and has a large collection of albums and cassettes . |
| 19 | The LTA must be funded and has a large role to play . |
| 20 | A spokesman for Vale of Glamorgan council said : ‘ The Chief Executive holds a very important post and has a large number of meetings . |
| 21 | Helmut 's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady who ‘ is just on eighty years of age and has a large house to keep clean with no help whatever ’ . |
| 22 | Military reforms initiated in the 1870s , which reduced the standing army , introduced universal conscription , and built a large reserve of trained men on the western model , had made it more and more difficult to insulate soldiers from civilian life and inculcate unquestioning obedience . |
| 23 | I recently set up a new tank , and used a large piece of bogwood , for the benefit of my plecs . |
| 24 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 25 | They opened the door and entered a large expanse of silence . |
| 26 | They crossed another yard , where hulks of obsolete machinery crouched , bleeding rust into their blankets of snow , and entered a large building with a high vaulted roof hidden in gloom . |
| 27 | The chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific is known appropriately enough as the ‘ Ring of Fire ’ , and although it 's a much more complex , disjointed affair than it may seem from this brief summary , it is unquestionably one of the Earth 's greatest physical features , and contains a large proportion of all the world 's volcanoes . |
| 28 | What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in the nineteen-fifties , and occupied a large building , now only costs a hundred or two , and is not much larger than a typewriter . |
| 29 | Next they turned to the desk and found a large packet addressed to Mr Utterson . |
| 30 | On issues of central political concern , Rodríguez was accused of breaking his election promise of land reform by vetoing laws passed by the Congress which would have introduced land dispute courts and expropriated a large estate . |