Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 2 | This enabled the president to attend a large number of these gatherings , thereby delivering on his promises to work closely with his cabinet in the formulation of policy . |
| 3 | It would give him great pleasure to write a large cheque for something special for Rose 's birthday — a particularly splendid piece of jewellery , perhaps — but he could n't . |
| 4 | Faced with the loss of their previous high-performance computer in 1987 , the university got backing from the Science and Engineering Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry to purchase a large Computing Surface to serve both as a research vehicle and a flagship site for Meiko . |
| 5 | This furthered his long-term ambition to rule a large ‘ south Slav ’ kingdom when the Ottoman Empire finally collapsed . |
| 6 | In general , then , a bank 's highest yielding assets tend to be illiquid — for example , a large proportion of advances to customers , though profitable , are illiquid ; similarly , equities are illiquid in that any attempt to sell a large amount of stock would depress stock prices and cause capital losses . |
| 7 | It helps a great deal to have a large number of clear , separate concepts , ideas that can quickly and easily be applied to the sometimes confusing variety of animal actions we observe when we sit down to watch other species . |
| 8 | It was an oddly cold-blooded act to coax a large sum of money from someone she had no intention of marrying to buy a house she did n't intend to live in . |
| 9 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |
| 10 | Most practices were too small and had too little managerial capacity to manage a large budget . |
| 11 | This is a factor in selection , and all Cabinets have some first-class administrators , but there are other , political reasons for appointments and it is possible that in any Cabinet of twenty , a half would not have been chosen if the only grounds had been the capacity to run a large department . |
| 12 | Shorter papers were published on the proposals for a National Health Service ; Hydro Electric Development ; the demobilisation problems confronting Lewis servicemen ; the Water ( Scotland ) Bill ; the National Insurance Scheme and a proposal to reclaim a large area of tidal land for agriculture . |
| 13 | Anarchist risings in January 1932 , January 1933 and December 1933 , while highly regionalized and easily suppressed , provided evidence of the Republic 's failure to embrace a large part of the Spanish lower class and at the same time helped convince many middle-class Spaniards that Republican democracy was the breeding ground of disorder and revolution . |
| 14 | Hyperodapedon and other rhynchosaurs had a barrel-shaped body to accommodate a large gut for the slow digestion of plant material ; they could not grind up plant food with their teeth , but may have been able to ‘ ruminate ’ , like a modern cow . |
| 15 | A workshop introduced by members of the Outwrite Collective put forward a resolution ( endorsed by the final conference plenary ) that ’ noted the failure of the conference to attract a large representation of Black women and women with disabilities ’ and committed Women for Socialism to ’ developing links and discussions with Black women 's organisations , to increasing Black women 's involvement at all levels , to developing links with other women 's and feminist organisations internationally , and to discussing a future women 's federation ’ . |
| 16 | An ugly gash was carved out of the Downs after the war to provide a large car park , and a boat park was made by the lifeboat house . |
| 17 | Compared to previous studies that used PFGE fractionated DNA to construct bacteriophage lambda libraries ( 5 , 6 ) , this method yields human-specific products and obviates the need to screen a large number ( 10 4 ) of recombinant clones . |
| 18 | A 16 gauge 56 cm reversed bevel curved transjugular liver biopsy needle ( William Cook , Europe ) was introduced through the sheath into the hepatic vein , directed anteriorly , and advanced through the liver parenchyma to puncture a large portal vein branch . |
| 19 | Courtaulds has called up £11million from its pension fund surplus to fill a large part of the interim profit hole from the South African pulp sale . |
| 20 | Courtaulds has called up £11million from its pension fund surplus to fill a large part of the interim profit hole from the South African pulp sale . |
| 21 | But the record shop remains a great place to do a large part of your Christmas shopping , and with a little imagination you can find great gifts without resorting to the obvious Greatest Hits albums or the record token cop-out . |
| 22 | The apparent failure of the police to act promptly and effectively , including their failure to apprehend a large group of armed men under conditions of curfew in the township creates the suspicion that police were colluding with the attackers . |
| 23 | The perception of high infant mortality itself was a symptom of poverty and this fuelled a continued desire to have a large family as an insurance against the death of existing children . |
| 24 | Crocodile , fish and dinosaur bones millions of years old might come to light when you use a crowbar to overturn a large rock left undisturbed by a lazy geologist . |
| 25 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 26 | The prime disadvantages , he believed , were two : " Absence of a territorial military organization " and the " need to maintain a large peacetime army at great expense due to the lack of a … reserve " . |
| 27 | Information storage : there was a need to store a large volume of accurate and up-to-date information , which had to be readily accessible . |
| 28 | For this purpose a hedge and dyke were built and kept in repair to make a large enclosure into which deer were driven by men with hounds and horns . |
| 29 | However , there are doubts about the Treasury 's willingness to fund a large increase in Ministry of Agriculture spending . |
| 30 | Grain and orchards do flourish in , for example , the Marathon plain , the market garden of modern Athens , but the inability of Attica as a whole to feed a large population gave the olive an additional role as an export , to be sent to south Russia to pay for Ukrainian corn . |