Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , we continue to be faced with a large empire whose structure is creaking and whose nationalities , after decades of Soviet subjugation and , in some cases , centuries of Russian imperialism , are seeking independence . |
| 2 | Although this is of considerable importance , particularly if the ballet is to be presented in a large theatre , too much concentration on certain of the dimensions ( height , depth or breadth ) may deprive some members of the audience of much of the pattern . |
| 3 | If a favourable free energy change is to be obtained for crystallite formation , the entropy term has to be offset by a large negative energy contribution . |
| 4 | Finally , your level of physical activity is going to be influenced to a large degree by how well and fit you feel . |
| 5 | Fred Dunston ( Fritz Deutsch ) , a Youth Allyah worker and former Scout leader from Vienna , was drafted in as an organiser of the transit camp , which was to be built on a large meadow across the road from the training centre at Great Engeham Farm : |
| 6 | These coins give no immediate clues as to their place of minting or indeed their date , for similar coinage in the name of Alexander continued to be made on a large scale for about a hundred years after his death . |
| 7 | In some cases it is possible for a district to be equated with a large town , but in other cases a desire for districts to be larger has produced curious and often locally resented combinations . |
| 8 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |
| 9 | The panels were built up from small components , enabling work to be subcontracted to a large number of small engineering firms without disrupting heavy engineering production . |
| 10 | The first plantation crop to be introduced on a large scale was coconut , and the pace of its expansion increased rapidly in the late 1880s and 1890s , mainly in Kurunagala district . |
| 11 | The sale was to be held in a large country house some eight miles away . |
| 12 | We know that at least one of the companies that is to be sold off a large company covering a substantial geographical area of Scotland — has two initiatives going ahead . |
| 13 | The next section will show the way in which this contradiction continued to be shared by a large number of clergy and laity even into the 1980s . |
| 14 | It was a lengthy and not a little dangerous , chemical process requiring the gas to be cooled through a large tub of water from barrels containing iron filings onto which sulphuric acid had been poured . |
| 15 | O2 Technology SA , the object-oriented database start-up in Versailles , says it has signed a partnership agreement with Paris-based Ingenia SA , a consultancy specialising in object-oriented technology , artificial intelligence and man-machine interfaces : under the non-exclusive agreement , Ingenia will sell O2 to its clients in the defence , agro-chemical and automotive industries ; O2 is an object-oriented database that has yet to make its mark as a commercial success ; an O2 spokeswoman said Ingenia has great expectations of the potential of O2 to be used for a large number of its applications . |
| 16 | Exactly two weeks earlier , Mrs Kathleen Topliff , 68 , returned to her house in Hayfield , in Derbyshire 's Peak District , to be confronted by a large , jet-black cat . |
| 17 | Currently working on a booklet of poems and drawings , Jan is also working on ‘ Common Senses ’ an installation to be shown at a large visual arts festival to be held during spring 1993 at Tullie House , Carlisle . |
| 18 | Finite element analysis requires the subject — in this case the club head — to be translated into a large number of computational cells or elements . |