Example sentences of "[adv prt] in large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both besiegers and besieged were struck down in large numbers , and the Mongols fled . |
| 2 | ‘ The main danger is ice , which coming down in large floes at the breaking up of a frost , is apt to accumulate at the pillars and exert enormous pressure thereon , ’ he says . |
| 3 | As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | uses now the reason we need , not just nuclear power of course , but all other sources of energy er is erm illustrated by these next couple of slides erm I 'm sure you 've seen data like this before growth in the world 's population over the last er few hundred years erm over the middle ages the er world 's population was fairly stable , although the birth rate was high er the death rate was equally high because of things like cholera and bubonic plague and smallpox and other things that used to kill people off in large numbers . |
| 5 | Mashing , boiling and fermentation are often speeded up in large breweries using such devices as continuous fermentation and high gravity brewing , both of which produce standardised bland beers of mediocre quality . |
| 6 | A German Zeppelin had flown over the Scottish coast at Leith , and dropped a bomb which by pure luck hit a bonded warehouse full of whisky , which went up in large flames , thus lighting up the darkened city . |
| 7 | Kleinwort and Hamilton led privileged lives : they grew up in large family houses with staff , attended public school and were assured by their family connections of places in the City . |
| 8 | 55 Forteana Paul Sieveking goes up in large clouds |
| 9 | Jane says : ‘ By helping homeowners give dignified care we prevented people ending up in large psychiatric hospitals and residential homes . ’ |
| 10 | Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit . |
| 11 | The development of such institutions resulted partly from the dissemination of beliefs in the importance of a child 's environment upon personality , and of realization that children brought up in large institutions found considerable difficulty later in adjusting to non-institutional life . |
| 12 | It was an overwhelmingly Conservative seat , made up in large part of Mayfair and Belgravia . |
| 13 | The £470 million announced yesterday will be taken up in large part by programmes that have already been announced , such as the employment action programme , by money for job clubs and by funds for departmental redundancy payment schemes . |
| 14 | At the election , the women of the borough turned up in large numbers shouting " No Sow and Pigs " . |
| 15 | There is of course , an opportunity to use money currently locked up in large institutions and statutory organisations more productively through local effort . |
| 16 | Yakovlev realized this , and recommended that party men be sent out in large numbers from Moscow and the guberniia towns . |
| 17 | Although much of the industrial production was carried out in large modern units , these were still comparatively small islands in an ocean of small-scale production and a very backward agriculture . |
| 18 | Most of the prison seemed to be laid out in large open ‘ wards ’ with bunk beds rather than individual cells . |
| 19 | Voters turn out in large numbers in safe seats where their individual support or opposition to the sitting candidate can make no difference whatsoever to the result . |
| 20 | The small smelter and mint was said to have been set up in the heart of the Rusland woods down towards the Leven Estuary , and coins were turned out in large numbers . |
| 21 | In their squalid and cowardly decisions announced last week , they spelled out in large letters the message that , in Conservative Britain , there is one law for powerful corporations that have a voice at the heart of the Tory party , and another for ordinary individuals in urban and rural communities of Wales and England . |
| 22 | It was spelled out in large print . |
| 23 | The voters of Cheltenham turn out in large numbers for a General Election -in 1987 the figure was almost 80 percent . |
| 24 | The last time Cuban exiles were allowed back in large numbers , during a goodwill period in the late 1970s , the country nearly collapsed in shock at the wealth they brought in their luggage . |
| 25 | Oxfam says the problem is that while wealthier nations can afford to bring their citizens back in large numbers , there are poorer ones who ca n't . |
| 26 | Cows , on the other hand , saunter around in large malodorous herds , bumping into the Land-Rover , farting and crapping all over themselves and each other , and turn previously walkable paths into evil , bubbling quagmires that leave the unsuspecting trekker caked in cow dung for the remainder of their day . |
| 27 | The habit of moving around in large groups is much commoner in fish than in other kinds of animals . |
| 28 | He has a great many euphorbias : E. characias with its giant yellow bottle-brush heads and brown bracts is allowed to lounge about in large clumps in corners ; E. palustris , a smaller yellow one , came originally from the Chelsea Physic Garden . |
| 29 | If he is asked to only trot round in large circles , he will have plenty of time to think about life being fun , whereas if he is ‘ worked ’ he will have to concentrate his mind on the job in hand . |