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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | If choreographers have had training in classical dance , they already have a large vocabulary of movement on which to call . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because Hemsworth has always had a large Labour majority , it sounds like a great monolith , but it is very far from that . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Then we rapidly had a large number of other women . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It also has a large boot and a split folding rear seat , to add practicality to its virtues . |
| 16 | The hotel also has a large garden with deckchairs , table tennis , a children 's playground and sun terraces . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It also has a large number of careful and useful line drawings . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | John Coon , DG 's UK marketing manager , says Technology will be better able to cope with support , and also has a large stock of peripherals on hand . |
| 21 | The rate of energy production , , also has a large peak close to the wall . |
| 22 | These both had a large circulation far beyond CAB circles : 1,500 copies of the report , for example , went to the Army Education Department ; 21,000 copies of the leaflet were bought by a Scottish county council ; and many copies of both were taken by youth organisations and clubs and societies of many kinds as a basis for informal discussion . |
| 23 | The dinosaur hip socket also had a large hole in the bottom of the basin , unlike the sprawlers . |
| 24 | The Substitute also had a large English umbrella which lay in the back beside his briefcase and a brand new pair of green galoshes . |
| 25 | We also had a large plastic bag which we had to get in . |
| 26 | He won at Cookstown , Tandragee , Mid-Antrim and Carrowdore and he also had a large slice of wins in the South . |
| 27 | Associated reasons for her death were the severe injuries to her nose and mouth , which was broken and swollen , the multiple attempts that had taken place to strangle her and the fact that she also had a large quantity of alcohol in her body about six times the legal level for drivers . |
| 28 | Plaited flex certainly but it probably had a large knot or something to increase pressure in the region of the larynx . ’ |
| 29 | When asked how ICI rates alongside the big oil companies that also have a large ingtegrated stake in petrochemicals , Carey points to the company 's long-standing partnership with Phillips Petroleum in the PIP refinery on the North Tees site which is part and parcel of the complex . |
| 30 | ‘ Peterborough HAH now has a large bank of qualified nurses and trained patient aides . |