Example sentences of "is [art] large [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This includes operators familiar on UK and continental roads such as CSAD of Czechoslavakia and Hungarocamion and reveals that SoMat of Bulgaria , operating in the region of 3,800 HGVs , is the largest trucking company in the world . |
| 2 | He says that as well as being the major sponsor of the game , the Midland is the largest private sector employer in Sheffield , and the game provided another opportunity for the bank to demonstrate that it is prepared to invest in the city . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend will know that , not too far from Wakefield , the chairman of one of the hospital trusts in Leeds , who is the largest private donator to the Tory party — a man who decided last week that he would use private medicine in the hospital trust that he manages — was yet another of those appointments . |
| 4 | Already , more than 20 Malaysian companies have moved into Papua New Guinea , whose 350,000km 2 of forest is the largest continuous tract of lowland tropical forest in South-east Asia . |
| 5 | With operations in over 40 countries , Rentokil is the largest international pest control company in the world . |
| 6 | This is the largest international event to have taken place in this reclusive country . |
| 7 | Head of sixth : This year they 're mostly Indians , that is the largest ethnic group of people who stay on to the sixth form , followed by the white children , then the Pakistani and West Indian in very small numbers . |
| 8 | It is the largest living bird — a fully grown male weighing 140 kilograms and reaching 2.5 metres in height . |
| 9 | PP : I understand that Barclays is the largest European lender to the Philippines with loans totalling over $384 million and that in 1987 you refused to sign a loan extension agreement between the Philippine government and 500 commercial creditors unless the $57 million debts of a private company , Planters Products PLC , were assumed by the government . |
| 10 | Volkswagen , which is the largest European car producer , has in recent months aligned itself behind the car protectionist lobby because , heavily dependent on high cost German labour , it is aware that it will have difficulties in beating off Japanese cars when they are imported without quotas into Europe . |
| 11 | Built in 1836–9 , it weighs 1,700t , holds 940t of water and is the largest cast iron aqueduct in the world . |
| 12 | Extensive beds of the common reed ( Phragmites australis ) are no longer found in these levels except in the Combe Haven valley where the reed bed of some 10 hectares is the largest remaining example of this habitat in Sussex . |
| 13 | The general pattern is the same in that the village is the largest political unit and that the cultural and linguistic inter-village similarities do not prevent hostility . |
| 14 | The Geological Society of London is the largest geological society in the UK , and its journal , through its antecedent titles , can claim to be the world 's oldest geological journal . |
| 15 | The Geological Society of London is the largest geological society in the UK , and its journal , through its antecedent titles , can claim to be the world 's oldest geological journal . |
| 16 | Given that buying a home is the largest financial commitment most people will ever make , the freedom now available to tailor mortgages to individual requirements should be exploited to the full by borrowers and advisers alike . |
| 17 | It involved about a dozen groups and a network of experts throughout Europe and is the largest future study of biotechnology that I am aware of . |
| 18 | The experience of Los Angeles , which is the largest developed city in the world without any form of rail transport , should be a terrible warning to politicians who ignore or dismiss the crying need for improvements to our own public transport networks . |
| 19 | Apart from Ennerdale , Grisedale is the largest roadless valley in the Lakes . |
| 20 | Following the acquisition of John Cawsey & Company in early 1991 , including 50% of Bundaberg Rum , United Distillers Australia is the largest wholesale spirit distributor in Australasia , with over 40% share of the Scotch market and over 42% of the gin market . |
| 21 | Tioman is the largest east-coast island , its smaller neighbours are mostly little-developed with unspoilt beaches . |
| 22 | Hosts : Cattle and buffalo Site : Small intestine Distribution : Mainly in tropical and warm regions T. vitulorum is the largest intestinal parasite of cattle , the females being up to 30.0 cm long . |
| 23 | Now Birds Eye is the largest such company in the world . |
| 24 | The Ouse Washes is the largest inland area of regularly flooded marshland in Great Britain . |
| 25 | These finely sculptured stele date to around the first century AD and the biggest is the largest single stone ever worked on by man . |
| 26 | Special mention should be given to 3i which is the largest single venture capital provider in the UK . |
| 27 | Car-making is the largest single manufacturing industry in the world . |
| 28 | What is the largest single event of sheer naked coincidence , sheer unadulterated miraculous luck , that we are allowed to get away with in our theories , and still say that we have a satisfactory explanation of life ? |
| 29 | The ability to be ‘ productive ’ is a powerful element of individual status within our society ; according to our particular scale of values , to work and contribute to the national wealth is the largest single contribution anyone can make to their society . |
| 30 | Numbers vary , but up to 650 birds have been noted passing up the Channel in a spring , and movements of 50 to 100 birds in a day are an annual event ; 234 flying east off Beachy Head on 15 April 1968 is the largest single movement noted . |