Example sentences of "[adv] have a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 2 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 3 | Binnerton manor obviously had a large number of freeholders , including some members of the nobility and gentry who probably never set foot in the place let alone attended the manorial court . |
| 4 | Not only had a large section of the population been enfranchised , it was a notably different electorate from that which had existed previously . |
| 5 | Du Pont , which already has a large complex in Northern Ireland , decided to locate a new software centre to service all its European needs in the Antrim Technology Park . |
| 6 | THE Tottenham Hotspur board confirmed yesterday that Terry Venables does not have a large budget for new players because of the high cost of bringing the ground up to the latest safety standards . |
| 7 | THE Tottenham Hotspur board confirmed yesterday that Terry Venables does not have a large budget for new players because of the high cost of bringing the ground up to the latest safety standards . |
| 8 | Most parents do not have a large lump sum to invest and have to rely on regular savings plans sometimes boosted by a modest capital investment . |
| 9 | A kind of ‘ halfway house ’ between the area system and the reference departments/area system has been reached by some of the authorities which do not have a large city collection within their boundaries , but feel that the needs of the ‘ serious ’ reader should nevertheless be given special attention . |
| 10 | The authoritative review of the theoretical and empirical literature from a number of countries conducted by Godfrey for the OECD concluded that all the various methods used to measure the incentive/disincentive effects ‘ indicate that taxation does not have a large and significant effect in the total supply of work effort and that , in particular , the net effect on the labour supply of male family heads is likely to be very small ’ . |
| 11 | As Nether Wyresdale is a relatively small parish and does not have a large budget it was decided to make a one-off donation to the appeal . |
| 12 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 13 | While the group did not have a large commitment to it , there had to be a big question-mark over whether to continue it . |
| 14 | Marriage was forbidden in their contracts too , but so many of the so-called babes broke the rule during the season that Amy found it impossible to replace them ; not having a large pool of dancers back in Britain she decided to bring the unmarried ones back after the first year 's contract was completed . |
| 15 | All major WordPerfect products will be developed for IBM OS/2 2.0 Although technically superior to Microsoft Windows and even offering Windows 3.0 software compatibility , OS/2 suffers from not having a large enough software base and not yet having reached a critical mass of users . |
| 16 | They are actually all for and b =8/3 but various values of P. In each case the integration was started at a time sufficiently earlier than the start of the trace that the choice of initial conditions is not having a large direct effect . |
| 17 | Linked to the disposal of the Sun was a takeover of the Mirror Group by the papermaking conglomerate Reed International , which already had a large shareholding in the Mirror . |
| 18 | Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire , and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated ; he calls this the ‘ Buzby effect ’ . |
| 19 | If choreographers have had training in classical dance , they already have a large vocabulary of movement on which to call . |
| 20 | First , that any attempt to implement a Marxist economic programme even on a relatively modest scale in a country which still has a large degree of freedom is doomed to catastrophe . |
| 21 | Because Hemsworth has always had a large Labour majority , it sounds like a great monolith , but it is very far from that . |
| 22 | He was so absorbed in the rivalry between Egypt and Syria that he attributed comparatively little importance to the fact that the Seleucid monarchy still had a large interest in the Iranian plateau ( see , however , 8.5 ) . |
| 23 | Then we rapidly had a large number of other women . |
| 24 | Wellington always had a large appetite ; he 'd piled fruit simultaneously on to his plate with the meat and rice , instead of having it separately as a dessert . |
| 25 | Now I still have a large family composed of the family I was born into ( some of it ) and also of a family of friends , sisters , brothers , mothers and children that I have chosen . |
| 26 | It also has a large boot and a split folding rear seat , to add practicality to its virtues . |
| 27 | The hotel also has a large garden with deckchairs , table tennis , a children 's playground and sun terraces . |
| 28 | Indonesia also has a large electrification programme underway involving hydro-electric and thermal power station projects but these and a number of large oil and petrochemical projects are threatened by balance of payments problems . |
| 29 | It also has a large number of careful and useful line drawings . |
| 30 | A REVIVAL in local radio has put the icing on the cake for GWR , the M4 corridor operator which also has a large slice of Classic FM for which TV star Henry Kelly is a regular presenter . |