Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adv] large [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 2 | I have a very large frame and would love to look so petite and sophisticated . ’ |
| 3 | But the government is now talking to Cathay Pacific Airways , which has a far larger fleet , and is investigating the possibility of using redundant British cross channel ferries for larger groups . |
| 4 | In order to implement its duties , the JAC relied upon local committees , each of which had a much larger membership than the parent body : ten nominees from the LCC education department , two headteachers , four employers , four workers , and ten persons nominated by the central JAC for their interest in adolescent welfare . |
| 5 | Latin and Greek had three genders ( as does modern German ) ; there are also languages with two ( such as French ) and languages which have a much larger set ( African Bantu languages , for example ) . |
| 6 | St Richards was fun and strict , with not enough to eat and high academic standards ; I developed a crush on the assistant matron who had a phenomenally large chest ; I liked her because she used to sit on the ends of our beds and talk to us before we went to sleep . |
| 7 | If you have a very large aquarium , more Ictalurus melas would be ideal if your specimen is not too set in its ways to accept any newcomers . |
| 8 | Synodontis Multipunctatus is a peaceful species , which can be kept either on its own or as a group of three or more if you have a very large tank . |
| 9 | A screen which will display clearly at least 80 characters per line and lower- as well as upper-case letters , and a full keyboard with a number of special purpose keys will be advisable for word processing A large amount of internal memory , a fast processor and high capacity external storage will be required for database applications , assuming that you have a fairly large number of records to be accommodated . |
| 10 | The other reason was in the late eighties and early nineties we had a very large expenditure programme indeed in one year amounting to one hundred million pounds now of that are now becoming fully depreciated and falling out of the charge |
| 11 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 12 | More formally , if equations ( 3.6 ) — ( 3.8 ) are the ‘ truth ’ and we carry out an ordinary least-squares regression of C t on Y t , as shown in equation ( 3.9 ) , then , assuming that we have a very large sample so that we can use population variances in place of sample variances , our estimator of will tend to the conventional formula : where is the covariance between C and Y and is the variance of Y. |
| 13 | ‘ We have a very large textile initiative which has been up and running since our formation ’ , he said . |
| 14 | ‘ They try to encourage schools to take part , as we have a very large amount of information and facilities to offer , but not all the schools in the county are involved , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ We have a very large amount of information and facilities to offer but not all schools are involved , ’ said Coun Stenson . |
| 16 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |
| 17 | They had a very large breakfast together . |
| 18 | They had a very large number of Scots sergeants and they all seemed to be very close . |
| 19 | Because they are small , they have a very large surface area relative to their volume , and are able to take in nutrients and light energy from the surrounding water , and excrete wastes , at enormous speed . |
| 20 | Forster 's main concern is emotional freedom , and he has a much larger idea of it than Jane Austen . |
| 21 | A characteristic of such an organization is often that it has a very large board . |
| 22 | Your PC will allow you to save larger designs than this , as it has a much larger memory capacity . |
| 23 | It has also been claimed recently that Proconsul lacked a tail , as do extant hominoids , and that it had a relatively larger brain than comparably sized monkeys ( Box 2 ) , and there is now little doubt that Proconsul is phylogenetically linked with the Hominoidea . |
| 24 | But he had a very large estate , and in the administration of it he needed the support of the king and his courts . |
| 25 | I can only emphasise the point that Her Royal Highness has already made on the requirements for us to have a much larger membership to allow us to speak with strong voice in the many debates we find ourselves involved on behalf of our sport whether it be windsurfers , dinghies , offshore sailing craft , motor cruisers , powerboat racing , anything that virtually goes on the water we look after . |
| 26 | Tony 's cameras were in three largish bags and each of us had a very large rucsac . |