Example sentences of "so large [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
| 2 | As John Kenneth Galbraith writes in the January 1990 issue of The New York Review of Books : ‘ Not before in our history have so many strong influences united to produce so large a disaster as in the the current case of the savings and loan disaster : bureaucratic inadequacy and incompetence , perverse ideology , money in large amounts for political protection . ’ |
| 3 | HOW did Grigori Yavlinsky , an economist who works as informal adviser to Boris Yeltsin , come to play so large a part in the aid-for-economic-reform debate ? |
| 4 | We pioneered the technique well before it became used on so large a scale by giants like American Express and Reader 's Digest . |
| 5 | My main objective , however , was to see the regalia of St Stephen which have played so large a part , albeit symbolic , in Hungarian history and which have gone on such varied walkabout . |
| 6 | That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ? |
| 7 | This was so in Bedfordshire , for example : in 1952 the District Council carried a motion deploring ‘ the withdrawal of the services of a full-time officer of the WEA from Bedfordshire when so large a proportion of branches in the area are so recently formed and still in need of assistance and encouragement that only a full-time organiser or tutor-organiser can give ’ . |
| 8 | As Federation secretary she was much involved in arranging Saturday lectures , concerts , jumble sales , theatre visits and suchlike for the branches : ‘ these would probably be arranged by the Federation officials without me , but perhaps not on so large a scale ’ . |
| 9 | In any case , is it feasible to deliver so large a quantity of hydrocarbons to the required point ? |
| 10 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 11 | Not having to pick their way carefully now they were able to cover some thirty hilly miles that day , good going for so large a party of horse , even mosstroopers . |
| 12 | Richard was the youngest man ever to be made Head of so large a school . |
| 13 | Having said all this , if your home is centrally-heated , one heater , perhaps not even rated for so large a tank , should suffice , and in practice it will rarely be on , when your home heating is . |
| 14 | The top of the ‘ face ’ then runs along the Kuril Islands to Japan , staying always on the ocean side of these chains — down through the Marianas — Saipan , Guam , Palau — to a point just east of the Spice Islands , which played so large a part in the saga of Magellan and his attempted circumnavigation . |
| 15 | It would be unusual in the West to find people living next door to each other with so large a difference between their incomes . |
| 16 | Rogelio Ramirez de la O , a Mexico City economist who was ridiculed by the government last year for predicting so large a deficit , now says that a big peso devaluation ( of perhaps 15% ) is four months off . |
| 17 | It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere . |
| 18 | Government incentives , both in the North Sea and in most other parts of the world , are designed to ensure continuous ploughing back into exploration , because after all , that is the basis for the future prosperity of the country , taking , as most countries do , so large a part of the ultimate revenue . |
| 19 | Its grounds were small for so large a house , no more than two shrubberies dividing it from its neighbours , and at the rear a stretch of lawn with trees ran down to a fence . |
| 20 | He found that 51.96 per cent of those in ‘ primary poverty ’ were so because the chief breadwinner was ‘ in regular work but at low wages ’ ; 22.16 per cent of primary poverty was due , in modern terminology , to ‘ child poverty ’ , i.e. the family had more than four children and insufficient income to support so large a family ; 15.63 per cent to ‘ death of chief wage-earner ’ ; 5.11 per cent to the illness and old age of chief wage-earner ; 2.83 per cent to ‘ irregularity of work ’ ; 2.31 per cent to unemployment . |
| 21 | Never before , as the Banks put it , had the arguments in favour of limiting the size of the family been presented to so large a public . |
| 22 | Proper authorization was essential and was provided by the seals which played so large a role in medieval government . |
| 23 | Perhaps he was contemplating his own life with Vivien here just as , when he connected McKnight Kauffer 's death with a sense of " the void " , he was once again returning to his own feeling of emptiness which had played so large a part in his religious conversion . |
| 24 | that nowhere else shall we find so large a mass of inhabitants crowded into courts , alleys , and lames as in Nottingham , and those , too , of the worst possible construction . |
| 25 | Only the Lithuanians accounted for so large a proportion of the population of their own republic , and the measure was widely seen as blocking rather than facilitating a transition to fully independent status . |
| 26 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 27 | A subdivision of so large a province may well have seemed desirable in purely pastoral terms . |
| 28 | But for so large a car , the 940 is amazingly easy to drive , controls are well spaced and light to use , and the height-adjustable seating position means you have a commanding view all round . |
| 29 | One advantage of so large a hall was the inability of all but the most vocal heckler to make himself heard . |
| 30 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |