Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [adj -er] scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually wind-blown , they fill pockets among coarser rubble , or on a larger scale cover many hectares of flat ground to depths of half a metre or more , firm and sometimes consolidated . |
| 2 | Limiting a bed or an area of a border to all the various shades of a single colour produces a sophisticated effect , although on a larger scale it may appear monotonous unless relieved by a subtle use of green or variegated foliage . |
| 3 | This theory holds that , although human society originated as Freud described it in Totem and Taboo , subsequent social evolution led to repetitions and expansion of that primal trauma which , although on a smaller scale than the original one , nevertheless share something of its traumatic nature and crucial consequences — particularly for the subsequent evolution of the superego . |
| 4 | The repression continues today , albeit on a smaller scale . |
| 5 | Tony returned to Britain with the idea that the M.I. concept could work equally well over here , albeit on a smaller scale . |
| 6 | Like Ghyll climbing in the Lake District , which provides memorable classics such as Piers Ghyll on Scafell , the Dark Peak can also furnish a few esoteric delights — albeit on a smaller scale — with fine outings such as Wildboar Clough on Bleaklow or the challenging Blackden Clough on Kinder Scout 's northern slopes . |
| 7 | As mentioned previously , in its unusual level of incomers west Thurso resembles a new town , albeit on a smaller scale . |
| 8 | His daring and persistence , albeit on a smaller scale than his friend Sturt 's , and invested with considerable self-interest , met , in contrast , with unparalleled success . |
| 9 | A less important category is those contracts which are material to the continuing conduct of the vendor 's business but without which the business can still be operated after completion , albeit on a smaller scale . |
| 10 | And on a wider scale , theorists maintained that life amounted to the survival of the fittest : did not the Beesley hypothesis prove that the ‘ fittest ’ were merely the most cunning ? |
| 11 | And on a grander scale , there 's the controversial battle-readiness and barricades rhetoric of acts like Public Enemy and Niggers With Attitude . |
| 12 | Written over twenty years ago , it is admittedly a tentative sketch put on in the hope that some English historians and archaeologists would set to work in a more expert way and on a bigger scale . |
| 13 | Other popular movements of protest and reform have often been met by violence — for example , the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the US , and on a larger scale the diverse movements in Eastern Europe , as well as in many parts of the Third World , which have been suppressed by military force . |
| 14 | Through GEAR ( and on a smaller scale similar agencies in some other Scottish cities ) the SDA pursued a policy of bargaining and negotiation designed to mobilize private sector finance , voluntary sector initiative ( particularly in housing ) and local authority co-operation ( for example on the provision of land ) ( see , for example , Donnison and Middleton ( 1987 ) for a more developed discussion of GEAR ) . |
| 15 | They are , temporarily and on a smaller scale , in the same position as banks or building societies or insurance companies , all of which are subject to special regulatory regimes to ensure that depositors and policyholders are adequately protected . |
| 16 | Other authorities followed slowly and on a smaller scale . |
| 17 | Once in a pond , the adults will attach themselves to any fish , causing the same problems as Argulus , but on a grander scale . |
| 18 | But on a wider scale , such events may be indicative of something much more fundamental . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , decentralisation of this sort usually results in regional structures which duplicate the former national structure : bureaucracy in the same form , but on a smaller scale . |
| 20 | For smaller pictures I use hardboard , but on a larger scale it can warp , which MDF will not . |
| 21 | Another example , but on a larger scale , is at Castor and Water Newton in the Nene Valley , where to the north of the walled town there are about two square miles full of buildings and sites associated with the extensive pottery industry with a centre of some kind in Castor village ( fig. 7.3 ) . |
| 22 | The language of the Sonata No. 3 is Schoenbergian but on a larger scale than anything Schoenberg wrote for solo piano : Krenek has a more obvious strain of Viennese lyricism , which serves him through all his style changes . |
| 23 | Migration from the eastern counties , while on a smaller scale , was forced by no less desperate circumstances . |
| 24 | One such paradigm is presented by Jonathan Sher in Education in Rural America while the mythical ‘ little red schoolhouse ’ does not transpose readily to the grey stone schoolhouse of rural Scotland , the problems of education in rural America are similar though on a grander scale . |
| 25 | Pro-life and pro-choice groups continued protests in Wichita , Kansas , though on a smaller scale than in July and August [ see p. 38383 ] . |