Example sentences of "a large [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 2 | In 1793 , the Fellows of Magdalen College , Oxford , erected a large building of simple classical design on the edge of their deer park . |
| 3 | At the end , in sunlight , was a large building with high windows and a big main door . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is a large building with five bays , having 15 roads . |
| 6 | This may also account for the small size of halls at West Stow , the uncompacted sand subsoil being incapable of taking the strain of a large building with earth-fast timbers . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , for softer tones and individual colours an electronic instrument can be most effective , particularly in a large building with good resonance . |
| 8 | In the north , at Corbridge , a large building with a veranda and an ornamental fountain has been claimed as a mansio , although it started life as a winged-corridor house probably during the third century . |
| 9 | Robyn 's student , Marion Russell , wearing a long , shapeless black overcoat and carrying a plastic holdall , hurriedly enters a large building in the commercial centre of Rummidge and asks the security man at the desk for directions . |
| 10 | I was then put in er , charge , if that 's the correct word , of disposing of the premises and er , we sold a part to Harry who was an old friend of mine er for his garage purposes and er , later on , purchased a large building in the middle of of erm , er , this area , which was still being used as a leather currying works and so on . |
| 11 | The Abbey Church of Solignac is a large building in a small village ; it was also on one of the pilgrimage routes . |
| 12 | A post morteum revealled she 'd died from a large fracture of the skull , soon after she 'd been born . |
| 13 | The World Bank has postponed payment of a loan to Thailand to complete a large dam across the Mool River , 570 kilometres northeast of Bangkok , until the government has analyzed independent environmental-impact studies and carried out new assessments of its own . |
| 14 | Concern is also being expressed about the proposed construction of a large dam at the north of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River . |
| 15 | It was a lengthy and not a little dangerous , chemical process requiring the gas to be cooled through a large tub of water from barrels containing iron filings onto which sulphuric acid had been poured . |
| 16 | It has a large accumulation of books , manuscripts , maps and pictures . |
| 17 | When , for example , the suspension of British motor cars collapsed under continental road conditions or when spare parts were not available for machine tools , initially only the reputation of British goods was damaged ; but the frequency of such occurrences amounted to a large accumulation of market ill-will by the early 1950s [ Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 18 | The females play a dominant role , marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds . |
| 19 | Got me a large strap for it . |
| 20 | Its wealth depended on the scientists who worked in a large lab behind the administrative block . |
| 21 | This bitch was also mated before she came into quarantine in this country , where she produced a large litter of ten . |
| 22 | She could not stand the thought of having a she-cat which would one day give birth to a large litter in her nice clean home and she did not wait to find out whether or not she-cats could be neutered . |
| 23 | Susan watched him take a large bite of a Luctian yeast cake . |
| 24 | A similar figure is quoted for a large landscape with a castle by Hubert Robert , while the portrait of Countess Maria-Theresa Kinsy , painted by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun in circa 1793 , is estimated to bring FFr1.2-1.5m ( £120–150,000 ; $210–265,000 ) . |
| 25 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
| 26 | He took a large swallow of pastis , and looked at his watch pointedly . |
| 27 | Colonel Windsor refilled it , and Tubby took a large swallow before gathering himself together to reply . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 30 | I looked around to my right , Chauvet , one of my friends of French Commando , was leaning against the side of the truck , a large smile on his face . |