Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] a large [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 POLICE are investigating the cause of a fire which badly damaged a large mill last night .
2 Linked to the disposal of the Sun was a takeover of the Mirror Group by the papermaking conglomerate Reed International , which already had a large shareholding in the Mirror .
3 Its practical effect was not very great ; but it began an attack on what radicals later came to call the ‘ old corruption ’ , the network of sinecures and jobbery which still played a large role in British political life .
4 Until last year Alison prepared the interim and annual accounts of Stratagem Group plc , which originally had a large investment portfolio .
5 The rule used calculated sail area as one factor in determining a rating , which typically indicated a larger sail area on a masthead boat of similar rating , while the fractional rig actually had more sail area .
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