Example sentences of "[adv prt] by large " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of large publishers is much smaller — a figure of a few hundred , steadily diminishing as the smaller independent firms are taken over by large conglomerates . |
| 2 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 3 | The films were n't doing business , the unprofitable US studios were being gobbled up by large conglomerates and ‘ rationalized ’ , changes in US fiscal policy implemented in 1967 to help in funding the Vietnam war now discouraged investment by US companies abroad , and the American unions had initiated a campaign in 1968 to ‘ combat foreign production by American producers . ’ |
| 4 | The ULS Study showed that smaller farms were more labour intensive per unit of land area and the NCC 's concern is mainly that larger units ( especially if bought up by large investors ) are run as ranches with little if any regard to conservation interests or features . |
| 5 | A second factor weakening the Heath government 's attempt to dictate to the unions on the basis of its ‘ mandate from the nation ’ was the rather agnostic attitude taken up by large employers . |
| 6 | Nor does it necessarily follow that if polytechnics were somehow to promote part-time and sub-degree courses , that they would be taken up by large numbers of children of manual workers . |
| 7 | They are to protect other unsecured creditors who might otherwise see what 's left swallowed up by large fees . ’ |
| 8 | If women fully develop the lower pec muscles , the result is that the bust is pushed out by large underlying muscles , thus seeming larger . |
| 9 | Most successful companies are bought out by large customers who see them as a way of getting into new technologies . |
| 10 | When menial tasks are carried out by large numbers of workers , supervision can be divided by organising the labourers into gangs of equal size . |
| 11 | Other covers were planted with trees , and fenced around by large fox-hunting landlords like Aylesford or Sir Francis Burdett , the radical politician , who hunted in Leicestershire in the 1820s . |
| 12 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |