Example sentences of "be [adj] that [art] large [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I am sure that a large proportion will be placed with subcontractors .
2 The plays were about oppression , and producer Innes Lloyd and director Claude Whatham were anxious that a large audience should be made aware of the plight of Czech dissidents such as Havel .
3 It is interesting that a large proportion of these ‘ new ’ users experienced some unpleasantness on first use such as vomiting and dizziness .
4 It is likely that a large proportion of those undecided and non-declared votes in our survey will go the Tories particularly when some of the other aspects of our poll are considered .
5 The Salinas government is adamant that a large devaluation would be both damaging and unnecessary .
6 It is , of course , necessary to confirm ulcer diagnosis and healing at endoscopy , and since the expected changes in the healing rate are relatively small compared with changes due to ulcer treatment , it is essential that a large study population be examined to detect appropriate changes in the healing rate .
7 There is a full agenda and the clerk to the council is optimistic that a large number of villagers will attend to give their views on local issues .
8 It is rare that a large crowd — and there must , he calculated , have been at least two thousand there — is entirely united in any mood .
9 The requirements for military or test pilots place less emphasis on the number of flying hours required and this is compensated for by the more stringent type of flying they have been involved in ( though it is true that a large proportion of airline pilots learned to fly and served in military aviation before becoming civil pilots ) .
10 Mr McGiffert stated that he was concerned that the large volume of traffic caused by the new golf course would wreak havoc , with farm machinery and animals using the same road .
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