Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a large [noun] " 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 | The subject of English stress has received a large amount of attention , and the references given here are only a small selection from an enormous number . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An earth tremor measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale has shaken a large part of Britain including Oxfordshire , causing people to flee their homes as chimneys collapsed and windows cracked . |
| 8 | Turnbull admitted it has formed a large part of forwards ' practice where the pack try to shift as many as 16 others , which concentrates the mind wonderfully on body positions . |
| 9 | Over the years Skarsnik has amassed a large collection of Dwarf beard scalps which he displays on long wooden stakes driven into the mountain side . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Specialization in weaponry has attracted a large following in the West . |
| 12 | [ The neighbourhood studies ] are designed to obtain a large amount of linguistic and social data on the major social networks of the neighbourhoods . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The homoeopathic doctor needs to obtain a large amount of information from the patient which requires a longer consultation time . |
| 15 | Whiskas Kitten Food is highly digestible , important when a small stomach has to meet a large energy need . |
| 16 | He has shot a large moth and pinned its body to the ceiling . |
| 17 | The National Library has seen a large number of retirements and new appointments during the year , including new departmental structures and staffing levels , leading to the overall number of permanent and temporary posts being increased . |
| 18 | Clark ( 1990 ) has recently referred to the ‘ myth ’ of the Anglo-Norman scribe and has collected a large number of comments from early in the century up until very recently from the work of distinguished scholars , in which attested forms are typically said to be ‘ Anglo-Norman ’ and therefore rejected . |
| 19 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 20 | Fortunately , she has saved a large deposit to put down on a flat so she only has to borrow £45,000 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Moreover , polythene will not accept most paints , and , if you want to colour a large area , then you 'll have to experiment with whatever plastic paints the local art store can offer . |
| 23 | This system , which is discussed in detail by Montgomery and Wallace leads to a fairly high number of accesses required to retrieve records from a well-aged file , i.e. one that has had a large number of additions or deletions since it was last loaded . |
| 24 | But this particular branch has got a large area stretching out like , as far as . |
| 25 | Nikko Systems Center , subsidiary of Nikko Securities Ltd , has bought a large NCR 3600 parallel processor from NCR Japan , for trading system purposes : the value of the order is $2.15m and the new system is to run a system based on the Sybase database , supporting a network of Sun Microsystems Inc stations . |
| 26 | Daimler-Benz , for example , has bought a large site on Potsdamer Platz , in the heart of the new Berlin . |
| 27 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |
| 28 | In the first weeks , sometimes months , of language study , you will need to use a large part of your time to practise pronunciation . |
| 29 | Managers might not borrow as much as they should , on paper , if they want to retain a large reserve of borrowing power in case of problems . |
| 30 | The woman talking has raised a large family and needs state resources as her basic income . |