Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite valiant attempts to mount a large multi-media show to mark Robert Adam 's bicentenary in London and Edinburgh this year , it eventually fell to the latter city to honour the great designer with a group of exhibitions during its recent Festival . |
| 2 | The issues discussed in this chapter relate mainly to the second and third options and in particular to proposals to replace a large ‘ proportion of them with some type of negative income tax system broadly defined . |
| 3 | A massive recruitment drive enabled the employers to persuade a large number of people to migrate from ex-colonies ( South Asia and the West Indies ) and from Italy to work cheaply but efficiently . |
| 4 | Moves towards toleration began during 1686 , when James used his prerogative powers to grant a large number of pardons and remissions of fines ( especially to Quakers ) , and even allowed individuals to obtain dispensations from the penal laws . |
| 5 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 6 | Don is involved in plans to build a large plastic slope , and golf course , at the site I visited , and has also applied to build a slope at High Wycombe . |
| 7 | It follows the collapse of attempts by British Airways to buy a large shareholding last September , and the ill-fated effort to link Sabena with KLM to create a carrier called Sabena World Airlines . |
| 8 | They had spacious vestibules at both ends to give a large standing capacity , which regulations never permitted to be used to the full . |
| 9 | In fact the present system of capitation payments and deprivation allowances is an incentive for London general practitioners to maintain a large list and do relatively little with it . |
| 10 | The WEU spent much of the period from mid-1990 to mid-1991 in redefining its role and its aspirations in the light of the generally decreasing level of superpower tensions , and particularly in the light of the United States ' plans to withdraw a large proportion of its troops from NATO bases in Europe . |
| 11 | These guitars are often used to double conventional guitar parts to give a large , well-defined 12-string effect . |