Example sentences of "[noun pl] for a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is an interesting theorem which seems to prove the existence of singularities for a large class of colliding plane waves . |
| 4 | A dictionary contains lexical entries for a large number of words . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | There were no bids for a large postcard piece by Gilbert and George ( lot 360 , est. £9,000–12,000 ) , nor for Tony Cragg 's ‘ Yard ’ ( lot 378 , est. £18,000–25,000 ) , an important granite sculpture dating from 1988 and formerly owned by the late Sebastian Walker . |
| 7 | The ‘ Options for Change ’ Defence Review has implications for a large number of Scottish companies . |
| 8 | It was not always easy for a private householder to find buyers for a large number of packets of soap ! |
| 9 | And de Gaulle had , on each occasion , made strong personal appeals for a large " yes " vote , implicitly and sometimes explicitly indicating that he would resign if the vote went against him . |
| 10 | Finally , the principles that generate implicatures have a very general explanatory power : a few basic principles provide explanations for a large array of apparently unrelated facts . |
| 11 | All African broadcasting stations rely on governments for a large proportion of their income , insufficient funds being raised either from advertising or the licence fee . |
| 12 | Or call them Before I leave them , perhaps I should add that they also do moulds for a large range of chess sets , Nativity sets , with Christmas in mind — and candle moulds of all kinds . |
| 13 | ‘ Horology is the study or measuring of time or making of clocks ’ — that 's what our dictionary says and the latter is what we do ; we make clocks for a large company called the London Clock Company , but we had very humble beginnings … . |
| 14 | In brief , the arguments for a large optional element in the fourth and fifth years are : |
| 15 | Concurrent with these military developments the British aircraft industry was waging a losing battle with the Americans for a large share of the civilian passenger and freight markets . |
| 16 | The early consequences have been devastating — a rapid fall in GDP , large-scale unemployment , sharply declining living standards for a large part of the population , the loss of important social rights , and the emergence of extreme inequality — and the mood that prevailed in 1989 , of entering joyfully into a £ brave new world , has given way to disillusionment and hostility . |
| 17 | This resulted in attempts to determine European standards for a large range of products . |
| 18 | The hobbling of trade unions , the abolition of wages councils , and the refusal to legislate for minimum pay levels demonstrate that John Major is quite willing to oversee the worsening of living standards for a large part of the population . |
| 19 | Gonzalez ( 1988 , Table 4.2 ) , usefully compares four different indexes for a large sample of countries . |
| 20 | As reflected in the original rich picture , there were concerns about the routine handover of information about the day-to-day condition of residents , and it was obvious that the process of keeping records for a large number of residents was an arduous manual task , indicating that some gains in efficiency might be possible by the introduction of computer support . |
| 21 | Because of the chronic nature of peptic ulcer diseases , it is likely that a person on medical treatment around 1979 and again around 1989 has used ulcer drugs for a large part of the intermediate period . |
| 22 | Large-scale sporting events , such as the Winter Olympics , can also bring about environmental change which is not just a consequence of the sporting events themselves but is also due to the infrastructure necessary to provide facilities for a large number of competitors and spectators . |
| 23 | The problems of providing adequate water supplies for a large population on an island with no running water were considerable so bathrooms were less common , though latrines were built . |
| 24 | Third , social services provide jobs for a large section of the labour force of all socio-economic groupings . |