Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a large [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use pattern that is appropriate to the style and size of your home — a small sprig design looks far more at home in a Victorian cottage than a grand , formally patterned carpet that would be better suited to a large room . |
| 2 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 3 | Even in the initial stages of the movement , when the painters still relied to a large extent on visual models , their paintings are not so much records of the sensory appearance of their subjects , as expressions in pictorial terms of their idea or knowledge of them . |
| 4 | Labour 's greatest ever achievement , without fear of any contradiction , the greatest achievement of the Labour movement was the introduction of the N H S which still remains to a large extent , the envy of the world . |
| 5 | The Forum could also count to a large extent on the backing of their Socialist and People 's parties . |
| 6 | The Forum could also count to a large extent on the support of the Socialist and People 's Parties . |
| 7 | Expensive cuts of lamb also increased to a larger degree than cheaper cuts , apart from the cheapest cut , breast of lamb , which rose most of all . |
| 8 | What is common to all these conceptions is the idea that economic development , based upon the growth of science — and even some kind of ‘ technological imperative ’ — has a pervasive and fundamental influence upon the whole of social and cultural life , and hence determines to a large extent the nature of political struggles , bringing into prominence new social groups , changing the balance of power between nations , and promoting an ever-growing intervention of the state in the economy . |
| 9 | Such early communities were not only dependent on animals for food and raw materials , but their lifestyle was probably determined to a large extent by the seasonal movements of these animals between different grazing areas . |
| 10 | Foxes became much more wide-ranging in their search for food , since they also depended to a large extent upon rabbits . |
| 11 | A term often applied to a large group system is an organisation and these are usually created to accomplish a specific purpose , for example a hospital is organised for the treatment of people with disease ; and is perhaps within a yet larger organisation , a national health service , which in addition is responsible for maintenance of health , prevention of disease and rehabilitation . |
| 12 | All these matters were basically concerned with the maintenance of acceptable standards of safety and it is only fair to acknowledge the fact that the high standard of safety in public transport aircraft today results to a large extent from work done by ICAO . |
| 13 | With presidential elections coming up in 1994 , it is becoming increasingly clear that political power in Brazil today rests to a large degree with the owners of the mass media . |
| 14 | We do n't cater to a large number of students intending to do first school work , it 's , our main interest has been in the middle and secondary school areas . |
| 15 | They are then moved to a large pit , usually close to the spawning site , where they take a further 6–7 days to become free-swimming . |
| 16 | I saw them all in control of a class ( or at least presenting to a large group ) and I was well pleased with their competence . |
| 17 | As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories . |