Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] 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 | The secret is utter confidence — a micro-second of self-doubt and you face a very large cleaning bill . |
| 4 | We have n't paid for it and therefore er , we er , you see a rather large item for provisions and minorities , that includes the ninety nine million consideration that er , went out of the door in July , as well , of course , as the substantial provisions that Thames made , in their own accounts for their property leases and for er , potential losses on the disposal of Reeves their West Coast , U S production company . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | ‘ We have a very large textile initiative which has been up and running since our formation ’ , he said . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We have a very large amount of information and facilities to offer but not all schools are involved , ’ said Coun Stenson . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | However ScotRail have now identified funds which would enable them to contribute a much larger sum than they had previously promised , provided the money can go through their accounts in the current financial year . |
| 16 | In the case of Mars they make a very large contribution to the overall circulation of the atmosphere whereas in the case of the Earth the contribution is small . |
| 17 | One who knew her remembered a very large hole in her stocking . |
| 18 | They had a very large breakfast together . |
| 19 | They had a very large number of Scots sergeants and they all seemed to be very close . |
| 20 | Pumpkinseeds grow to around 7″ , so they require a fairly large tank — three feet minimum . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He planned a very large church but only the baptistry was ever completed ( in 1856 ) . |
| 23 | Of these he produced a remarkably large number , in almost all the counties of the region , becoming unrivalled as the leading master builder there and establishing a reputation which extended well beyond it . |
| 24 | It is the same kind of calculation as we did for haemoglobin , and it produces a similarly large result . |
| 25 | He owned a very large portion of Southern Bohemia , perhaps a hundred thousand hectares . |
| 26 | It needs a very large orchestra and I needed a lot of rehearsals so that I could have time to explain the piece fully to the orchestra . |
| 27 | In order for a monkey to write ‘ Methinks it is like a weasel ’ by chance , it needs a very large amount of luck , but it is still measurable . |
| 28 | Forster 's main concern is emotional freedom , and he has a much larger idea of it than Jane Austen . |
| 29 | A characteristic of such an organization is often that it has a very large board . |
| 30 | Your PC will allow you to save larger designs than this , as it has a much larger memory capacity . |