Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rations given to Parnaka were surely intended to support a large household , of a feudal type ; in fact a household of what Herakleides called ‘ fellow-diners ’ . |
| 2 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |
| 3 | It was intended to provide a large number of alternative words and expressions for subjects , so that advice workers could look for information under terms which were familiar to them and still find the right information . |
| 4 | The morphological analysis and dictionary system of the ANLT ( Ritchie et al , 1987a ) have been developed to provide a large coverage , morphological lexicon . |
| 5 | Such defences are clearly of urban-core type , designed to enclose a large part of the occupied area south of the river , including the official buildings . |
| 6 | As the insurance companies could expect a huge increased revenue , they in turn could be expected to bear a large proportion of the cost of implementing the scheme . |
| 7 | [ The neighbourhood studies ] are designed to obtain a large amount of linguistic and social data on the major social networks of the neighbourhoods . |
| 8 | It meant that senators fell into line with their colleagues in the House of Representatives who , in 1989 , had voted to accept a large pay rise ( effective from Jan. 1 , 1991 ) in return for the ending of honoraria . |
| 9 | We had certainly expected to receive a large response , but had not anticipated the near-unanimous chorus of offers to increase your contributions to the lifeboat service . |
| 10 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 11 | Such models can be designed to take a large number of factors into account at any one time . |
| 12 | The hearer is being trusted to take a large share of the responsibility in imagining what it may be for the speaker to be past his youth , and the result is a wide range of weak implicatures . |
| 13 | The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate . |
| 14 | Buxtehude , which is studied first , is most interesting for the way in which an attempt has been made to treat a large area of a small town , ranging from centre to suburb . |
| 15 | You can also see that zinc white has been applied to establish a large area of light |
| 16 | Coffield , Borrill , and Marshall ( 1986 ) , though giving all the young people in their study pseudonyms of their own choosing , nevertheless ‘ decided to omit a large amount of the richest ( traceable ) data , on the principle that those who are researched own the facts of their own lives and have the right to decide what should and should not be published . |
| 17 | He was sentenced to pay a large fine , and to surrender his office to trustees ( one of whom was his own brother-in-law ) , although the intricacies of the case were not settled until at least 1636 . |
| 18 | Since considerable resources of time are needed to input a large corpus successfully , textual processing by computer is impracticable for many researchers working on tight budgets . |
| 19 | It can be maintained , for instance , that erect posture is needed to support a large size rather than represent progress to an endothermic regime . |
| 20 | It is clear that a main attraction of the project for its participants was the opportunity offered to obtain a large amount of space in a Central London location for a modest outlay . |
| 21 | The visit was Saw Maung 's first foreign trip since the SLORC takeover in September 1988 ; reports in February 1991 had claimed that Myanma had agreed to purchase a large arms package from China [ see p. 38005 ] . |
| 22 | The rogue p53 gene was also thought to play a large part in lung , stomach and bowel cancer . |
| 23 | Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 25 | He may have been persuaded to pay a large sum of money ( perhaps hundreds or thousands of pounds ) for the privilege of joining . |
| 26 | Apart from the four first-floor bedrooms , all of which are housed in the roundels and which are 5.1m ( 17ft ) in diameter , the upper storey was used to house a large games room , an airing cupboard and a bathroom . |
| 27 | Last year ISI was commissioned to survey a large area of the Fife coast , which harbours many insects which are rare elsewhere in Britain , including the Northern Brown Argus Butterfly . |
| 28 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 29 | The freight yard was used to display a large cross section of modern diesel locos together with some early versions now preserved — such as a Class 35 ‘ Hymek ’ , a Class 45 ‘ Peak ’ and a class 55 ‘ Deltic ’ . |
| 30 | There is , for instance , the problem of what kind of heart would be needed to propel a large body , and the question would arise as to whether , in the case of very tall animals , a higher blood pressure would be required , with commensurately tougher blood vessels , in order to pump blood from the heart to the brain . |