Example sentences of "and [verb] a large " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 If painting in powder colour and using a large sized brush you will want a reasonable size of paper .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I forgot that someone was living illegally in Paris on the floor of my home and demanding a large sum of money to leave .
8 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 .
9 100 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 .
10 Never mind , it was a good feeling to put on dry clothes and eat a large cooked breakfast .
11 When he got in he went upstairs and got a large blanket .
12 At a time when many authentic works were being rediscovered and marketed , Joni conceived and painted a large number of fragmentary works .
13 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 .
14 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 ’ .
15 A spokesman for Vale of Glamorgan council said : ‘ The Chief Executive holds a very important post and has a large number of meetings .
16 The LTA must be funded and has a large role to play .
17 The manor is set right in the middle of Horncastle and has a large and colourful garden , much admired by passers-by who can not help but pause at the usually open corner gate in the garden wall .
18 Chris likes music , and has a large collection of albums and cassettes .
19 The small circular bow is for suspension from a chain while the narrow square-sectioned shank is notched at each end and has a large incised ‘ X ’ on one side .
20 It is already home to three artists working in the studio upstairs and has a large cafe cum exhibition space and a poetry room .
21 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 .
22 I recently set up a new tank , and used a large piece of bogwood , for the benefit of my plecs .
23 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 .
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 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 .
27 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 .
28 Next they turned to the desk and found a large packet addressed to Mr Utterson .
29 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 .
30 Well , I seem to recall a London gallery exhibiting a pile of rubbish , which was considered valid art by the proprietors and drew a large attendance .
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