Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] a large " in BNC.

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1 The new X-terminal offers a large user memory of 30Mb , and fits in with Forefront , Hitachi 's heterogeneous systems integration schema announced in February .
2 Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well .
3 The male builds a large bubble nest around a floating leaf or other object on the water surface .
4 For their part , consumes should take reasonable care when making purchases ; where there is small print it should be read carefully or , if it seems complex and the purchase involves a large sum of money , professional advice may be required .
5 The building has a large narthex extending the whole width of the church with three saucer domes over it .
6 MB 's building products division has a large overlap with Caradon 's operations .
7 For example , in the rattlesnake the upper end of the tooth near the jaw has a large inlet for venom ( the basal orifice ) , and a smaller outlet close to the tooth 's tip ( the distal orifice ) .
8 This resort has a large range of facilities , including two luxury hotels , shops , restaurants , camp-grounds , an information centre and an airstrip .
9 These cover a large range of things , like the patient 's age , the patient 's sex , where the pain is , where it started , how quickly it came on , and so on and so forth , and essentially within the computer has a large table , and this table contains , how shall I put it , the frequency with which this particular symptom was associated with a particular disease over the last few hundred patients that have been seen at that hospital .
10 The brand covers a large number of DOC vineyards .
11 They must scoop up or snap up huge numbers of insects each day to fill their stomachs , and each insect contains a large percentage of rather non-nutritious outer-covering .
12 A fully adult male needs a large home range and young males often establish their own on the fringe of the reserve .
13 My borough has a large number of refugees , and I am concerned that the Bill may enable some authorities to avoid any responsibility for refugees .
14 The department has a large well-equipped phonetics laboratory with facilities for recording ( both sound and vision ) and for the analysis of speech , speech synthesisers , and its own computers .
15 This umbrella term covers a large number of different therapies , which concentrate strongly on the ‘ wholeness ’ of a person and their potential for good .
16 On the kitchen-table stands a large piss-pot , next to half a loaf of bread and the remains of a meal .
17 The second stage of the research includes a large scale questionnaire survey of a sample of local drivers .
18 The North West Thames health authority 's greeting depicts a large apple core .
19 The action removes a large part of economic sanctions imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre .
20 Our emphasis on human nature outlined at the beginning of this study provides a large part of the answer .
21 This is a state where the arms industry provides a large number of jobs .
22 One variety uses a freely suspended massive bar cooled to 4 K and another variety uses a large Michelson interferometer monitored with laser beams .
23 If the council receives a large number of letters about a development , this will give it an idea of the strength of feeling involved and it is much better than a petition .
24 Work plays a large part as the centrepiece of the daily regime and both its opportunities and its shortcomings were made clear to me .
25 There is no doubt that Angelica Kauffman 's work offers a large and varied body of materials for feminist cultural and historical study .
26 Our regency Cocktail Bar offers a large selection of beers , champagnes and spirits .
27 The Gospel contains a large amount of material concerned with the theme of suffering and persecution .
28 Upon binding InsP 3 , the receptor undergoes a large conformational change which is perhaps related to the coupling process leading to channel opening .
29 Snakehead needs a large friend
30 Well the Institute has a large teaching study and training programme , which is essentially centered around what we call a study seminar .
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