Example sentences of "have [verb] on a [adj] scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spread of the HIV virus has continued on a massive scale throughout the decade , to the point where fears of a global depopulation of Black Death proportions have come to seem more plausible . |
| 2 | Looting also appears to have occurred on a spectacular scale . |
| 3 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 4 | Credit buyers were also asked to rate their satisfaction with the credit arrangement they had used on a five-point scale ( see Table 24 of Appendix I ) . |
| 5 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 6 | Wilson therefore regularized a practice he had begun in 1964 when outsiders such as Professors Nicholas Kaldor and Robert Neild had been recruited into the Treasury , a practice which Heath had followed on a smallish scale . |