Example sentences of "the [noun sg] a large [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the wedding a large number of our friends came to a party at our house . |
| 2 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 3 | They knocked , gained entrance and offered the lady a large amount of money if s-he would abide by certain conditions and would never breathe a word of anything that happened on that fateful night . |
| 4 | A minute after I got into the water a large woman in an orange bathing cap swam up and asked if I was a newspaper correspondent . |
| 5 | Certain critics like Hourcade and Allard , who did not realize the importance of what Picasso and Braque were doing , continued to take a broad view of Cubism as simply a return to a more sober , classical form of art , and thus to include within the movement a large number of artists who were not strictly speaking Cubist but had been slightly influenced by the style . |
| 6 | In order to meet all the requirements of the payroll a large amount of support was necessary , particularly from the Computer Services Division , even after the system had gone " live " . |
| 7 | The principle of subsidiarity means that we should build into the reform of the CAP a large dimension of national freedom . |