Example sentences of "large [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penny Spearpoint from Healthcare London East recently signed a large contract at the Palace Theatre in London . |
| 2 | She had found an opportunity to creep into the large saloon at the front downstairs , where in the gloom created by the velvet curtains drawn across the windows she had seen that the large and ugly old-fashioned Queen Anne furniture was shrouded in sheets . |
| 3 | The one which was being shown now in the large stockroom at the end of the corridor was flickering and rather grainy . |
| 4 | The firm has four of them alongside a host of other fascinating phone products on their large stand at the front of the hall . |
| 5 | The large presence at the start was proof enough that the overall standard of squash in this country is at its highest-ever level . |
| 6 | It was in the Fifties , however , that Gerard P. Kuiper said turbulence in various parts of the cloud was likely to make the cloud sufficiently dense to flatten it out into a disc-shaped mass , with a large mass at the centre orbited by smaller ones . |
| 7 | The first lecture was on Comus ( subsequent talks on Milton had to move to the large lecture-room at the Taylorian Institute , the Divinity Schools being too small ) . |
| 8 | But , because of the statistical properties of the normal curve of distribution , they do have a large effect at the extremes . |
| 9 | The bright bar leads out onto a large terrace at the front of the hotel . |
| 10 | The sequence in the region of the IE-3 Vmw175 binding site is shown in large type at the bottom of both panels . |
| 11 | These are also strongly accented as the arms straighten into 2nd position before being bent , with hands sometimes clasped behind the head , sometimes placed akimbo on the waist or sometimes with one on the waist and the other behind the large bow at the back of the head-dress . |
| 12 | The large boy at the lectern read about Rachel weeping for her children , because they were not . |
| 13 | She knew she was missing something , even if she did not know quite what , but she and her parents had returned to their large room at the base of the Grimsdale 's house . |
| 14 | ( According to the local newspaper , the looms remained in the large room at the North Wing until near the end of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 15 | They 're divided into hybrid teas , which normally have one large bloom at the end of each stem and are often quite highly scented , and floribundas , which have a group of smaller blooms and usually less scent . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's a large drawing-room at the back of the house that should be suitable . ’ |
| 17 | A large annexe at the back detracted from the symmetry of the old bothy . |
| 18 | Concern is also being expressed about the proposed construction of a large dam at the north of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River . |
| 19 | Gigant Street was most interesting for it not only housed Gibbs Mew & Co 's Brewery but also Tylee 's Rag and Bone store or more correctly , as the large sign at the front of the building proclaimed , ‘ C.E. TYLEE , Wool , Horsehair , Rag , Metal and Skin Merchant and Marine Store Dealer . ’ |
| 20 | Despite a large sign at the top reading ‘ Experienced Swimmers Only ’ , fathers were to be found hurling their whimpering infants into the tumult with loud cries of ‘ You 'll enjoy this , Darren . ’ |
| 21 | The part of the skeg nearest the board suffers most from turbulence and spin out , so this part is correspondingly cut away , relying on the large area at the bottom to provide the grip . |
| 22 | Do you remember the Mall — that large expanse at the top of the Ridge , where Kipling must have walked and written his Just So stories ? |
| 23 | The wheel was fed from a large lake at the rear of the mill , the water exiting under the adjacent road through a substantial stone tunnel . |
| 24 | He wore powerful glasses and had a large wart at the side of his large nose . |
| 25 | Among those projected are galleries housing ethnographic material currently in the Museum of Mankind , including material from the Americas to be displayed in four rooms carved out of a large space at the end of the existing North Library . |
| 26 | ( ii ) The trees , at Withington , also show more branches ( each of which has a large calyx at the tip ) , " and the animals run around the inner roundel in an almost frenzied motion . |
| 27 | A sound of light organ music came from a large wireless at the end of the counter . |
| 28 | The large ballroom at the back of the Cadogan building had been opened for the occasion . |
| 29 | The familiar painted backdrop of the theatre appears also in the cinema : the notoriously unconvincing backdrop of a large ship at the end of a terraced Baltimore back street in Marnie ( 1964 ) is a case in point , but a tricky one . |
| 30 | BOSTON 'S Holy Cross defeated a Belfast Select side 104–83 last night in front of a large crowd at the Queen 's PE Centre . |