Example sentences of "large and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the CEGB is faced with defending its desire to construct a PWR at what may be the largest and most acrimonious public inquiry yet held in Britain . |
| 2 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 3 | For the largest and most prominent buildings , located in that city 's Whitworth Street area , colourful cladding of their steel skeletons with elaborately moulded glazed terracotta blocks was de rigueur . |
| 4 | Moody and Eclipse — built by Marine Projects and distributed by Marine Secol , Britain 's largest and most caring dealer . |
| 5 | Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . , |
| 6 | This was experienced by the largest and most outstanding US corporations , all manner of industries grouped together as ‘ smokestack America ’ , and by the powerful banks and finance houses . |
| 7 | It was completed in 1819 at what was then the staggering cost of £163,457 and was the largest and most imposing building in the town . |
| 8 | According to De Quincey , Coleridge had ‘ the largest and most spacious intellect , the subtlest and most comprehensive that has existed among men ’ . |
| 9 | ( Our babyfood range is one of the largest and most varied you can buy . ) |
| 10 | The Metropolitan 's 33,000 textiles constitute one of the largest and most varied collections in the world . |
| 11 | America 's Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , to be built in Texas , will be the largest and most expensive machine in the world . |
| 12 | The federal government also plans and builds the largest and most expensive central facilities with the active participation of the state governments , who can also be persuaded to find fairly large experimental facilities at universities . |
| 13 | On June 14 , 1989 , the largest and most expensive US space booster , the Titan-4 , was launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , successfully deploying what was thought to be a secret military satellite capable of providing early warning of nuclear attack . |
| 14 | This is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind and does address the very real problems people have to cope with in the event of a major disaster . ’ |
| 15 | The poll , for the Press Association , is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the campaign . |
| 16 | London 's largest and most comprehensive bathroom and kitchen store . |
| 17 | London 's largest and most comprehensive bathroom and kitchen store . |
| 18 | As befits its largest city , Cardiff boasts the largest and most comprehensive institute of higher education in the Principality , with the exception of the Polytechnic of Wales at Treforest : the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education which was formed by the amalgamation of the Cardiff College of Food Technology and Commerce , Cardiff College of Education , Cardiff College of Art , and Llandaff College of Technology . |
| 19 | Harrogate 89 was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever , featuring more than 260 exhibitors from 14 countries . |
| 20 | We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK . |
| 21 | The Empire is the largest and most powerful of all the many and varied realms of the Old World . |
| 22 | The civilization of China is among the oldest in the world , and China has throughout Japan 's history been the largest and most powerful of her Asian neighbours . |
| 23 | La Paysanne , executed at La Rue-des-Bois ( where Picasso spent most of August ) , or shortly after Picasso 's return to Paris , is one of the largest and most powerful of the group . |
| 24 | From here , the grim Hazar Ustan or Thousand Pillared Palace , Tughluk ruled the largest and most powerful empire India had known since the time of Ashoka , one and a half millennia previously . |
| 25 | Boris Yeltsin , the leading radical populist and one of President Mikhail Gorbachev 's fiercest critics , was elected on May 29 as Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , making him de facto President of the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic . |
| 26 | The RSFSR , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic , on June 12 was declared a sovereign state by its Congress of People 's Deputies ( constituted in May — see pp. 37459-60 ) . |
| 27 | However , the post of mayor of Sao Paulo , the largest and most powerful municipal government in the country , went to Paulo Maluf , a right-wing populist politician of the Social Democratic Party ( PDS ) with presidential ambitions , who was not only a personal friend of Collor but a former associate of Farias . |
| 28 | But first , Boris Yeltsin the man sacked by President Gorbachov as Moscow Communist Party Chief , has been elected leader of the Russian Federation ; Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful Republic . |
| 29 | But for all of the work he has carried out , Barlow Clowes has proved to the largest and most complex in the office 's 22 year history . |
| 30 | Also described as Britain 's most successful industrial investment and one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects , the Thermal Oxide reprocessing Plant was completed to a deadline set six years ago . |