Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1952 , a year after his one-man show at the Galerie Arnaud , he began to produce his large-scale monochromes , represented here by ‘ Color for a large wall ’ , loaned by the Museum of Modern Art , New York , and ‘ Kite II ’ , now at the Beaubourg . |
| 2 | Around mid-afternoon , I had a report from Ballymena that the large police station in the town had been ordered to clear its cells of ordinary prisoners in preparation for a large number of arrests . |
| 3 | The only opportunity for a large increase in revenue was thought to lie in the Gatwick Express non-stop service introduced in May , featuring air-conditioned stock on the half-hour journey from Victoria to Gatwick every fifteen minutes ( and powered on a push-pull basis by Class 73 electro-diesels ) . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a small cottage for a large family . ’ |
| 5 | The Prince of Wales gazed in horror as a large , succulent goose was borne in by Heinrich to the dining-room serving table for carving by Auguste . |
| 6 | The Project provides a focus and catalyst for a large and continuously growing network of working groups whose emphasis is always on the development of professionalism and improved practice . |
| 7 | There would be no excuse for a large order from Neil Kinnock : John Major took delivery of 10 boxes last December . |
| 8 | It has close to it a park that provides pasture for a large herd of deer and wild goats . |
| 9 | The threat co-incided with an announcement by British Gas that it had secured an exclusive deal with Bahrain , one of the GCC members , to develop plans for a large power station there . |
| 10 | I hope that the Community will concentrate on providing within its borders only those things that it does best — a common legal framework for a large liberal market economy with a social dimension . |
| 11 | It is the base for a large measure of individual and social mobilization to activate , extend or defend those rights , not simply in the political sphere but more generally in the areas of cultural , economic and social life . |
| 12 | These factors , taken together with the attractions of Edinburgh as a city and the University as a large , intellectually lively and well-supported institution , make the Faculty of Social Sciences an exciting and satisfying place in which to conduct research . |
| 13 | The increasing friction between Braun and the City Council came to a head last month when proposals for a large sculpture garden , which was to be financed completely by the Overholland Foundation , again did not find the support from the City Council that Braun was hoping for . |
| 14 | Whatever the answer to such a question , examples can be produced that cast doubt on the invariable necessity for a large number of observations . |
| 15 | This person 's manager , who had profit and loss responsibility for a large division within the company , was warmly and favorably described as ‘ non-political ’ : |
| 16 | She 's matched with a somewhat feckless husband and has the sole responsibility for a large family . |
| 17 | Mr Renaudat is believed to have been arranging a deal for a large supply of arms captured by Chad during the war with Libya to be sold to the Lebanese Christians , through intermediaries in Tunis and Iraq . |
| 18 | Use a lawnrake ( a powered version is a good investment for a large area ) , to help clear moss and prevent a ‘ thatch ’ of dead grass and debris building up — it inhibits growth and may encourage diseases . |
| 19 | It acts as British agent for a large number of New Yorkers offering bed and breakfast in their own homes , and can also find apartments — from studios to three-bedroom flats — many privately owned . |
| 20 | This is an interesting theorem which seems to prove the existence of singularities for a large class of colliding plane waves . |
| 21 | However , it is unwise to seal them off completely with tape as a large change in atmospheric pressure may cause damage to some instruments . |
| 22 | A dictionary contains lexical entries for a large number of words . |
| 23 | Entries for a large number of compounds ( about 30,000 in the CED , 11,000 in the OALDCE ) can be obtained as headwords and subentries ( e.g. ‘ in one 's right mind ’ , ‘ by rights ’ occur under the headword ‘ right ’ ; ‘ right about ’ , ‘ right angle ’ , ‘ right away ’ occur as headwords ) . |
| 24 | A wholesale buyer of women 's underwear for a large store could not hope to inspect every single item she intends buying ; what she usually does is to inspect a sample of goods and to base her decision on this . |
| 25 | The drug is a well tolerated and suitable therapy for a large number of systemic infections . |
| 26 | A partnership between a large public-spirited company like Pilkington 's or ICI and a school or college would not be replicated in an area in which there are no large companies at all . |
| 27 | The dependence on shellfish by the people of the Klasies River Mouth for a large part of their food continued for tens of thousands of years and is one of the most interesting of Singer and Wymer 's findings . |
| 28 | PC SASPAC is therefore not useful to someone who will want to study low-level data for a large number of counties , though it is suitable for someone who is only interested in one or two and not fond of computers ! |
| 29 | He believes that the report will be recognised internationally as a major step forward in assessing the risks of a large scale disaster arising from the transport of dangerous substances near centres of population . |
| 30 | Here we are reminded of studies carried out some years ago in Germany on the personality characteristics of a large group of professional painters and sculptors . |