Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are only six surviving species , the other two originating from South America and Australia , of quite a large family and they form the link between the fish and the early reptiles . |
| 2 | In a van , estate car or large hatchback it 's okay , but it 's too big to get into even a large saloon without a lot of hassle . |
| 3 | ‘ Come into the kitchen , ’ she said , and led the way across a small hall and into quite a large kitchen , dominated , Millie noticed , by an oblong table under which were a number of stools . |
| 4 | And as we heard this morning Jesus told us a parable about a mustard seed , although it 's small it grows into quite a large shrub . |
| 5 | For instance , the monastic school was still in existence , with quite a large body of masters and children in the choir.6 Also , the members of the community preserved a considerable sense of grandeur , however misplaced , and an implacable devotion to their local saints . |
| 6 | As one would expect the best results are obtained when all of the correct words were present in the lattice , with quite a large decrease in performance being found when the lattice quality drops to 89% . |
| 7 | Right , well I work in quite a number of Community Centres across the City , and Northway Community Centre which has a bar with quite a large turnover , a lot of members , er has agreed to host this project for the week , which is promoting healthier drinking . |
| 8 | Most women are forced through economic necessity to work in part-time low-paid jobs with quite a large number in the black economy . |
| 9 | It is still worthwhile building up a stock of components though , and most electronics hobbyists end up with quite a large store of components after a few years . |
| 10 | Every evening the make-up would be wiped off with a towel resulting in quite a large laundry bill for each Girl . |
| 11 | When immigrant children first enter the borough they are sent , if the education department has any doubts about their English , to an assessment centre , and from there a large proportion of them are channelled into reception classes . |
| 12 | I come from quite a large family but most of my family live in the same area . |
| 13 | He was born in seventeen sixty , in the middle of France , really , erm , and he came from quite a large family . |
| 14 | This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations . |
| 15 | Huy understood why he had been dropped here , from where a large number of roads led off back to the various parts of the city , but guessed that they had underestimated his knowledge of the twisting muddle of streets that formed the harbour quarter . |
| 16 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 17 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 18 | If you can keep your ‘ surplus ’ projects simple and labour-saving — grass-letting or flying flocks of grazing animals for example — you May still find time to concentrate on feeding your family as your first objective on quite a large holding . |
| 19 | The Nottinghamshire show is the 6th and 7th and as most of you know now we 're going to build the equivalent of Coronation Street on quite a large area spanning a hundred years of er of burglary , that that 's the theme . |
| 20 | To quite a large extent the interests of parasite genes and host genes may coincide . |
| 21 | D'Arcy left Nadirpur perched on a bar stool with a glass of Victor 's best vintage champagne and made his way across the room to where a large figure in black suit and shirt was seated , almost invisible in the dark alcove . |
| 22 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 23 | Moreover when I once tried a word-association test with a class of college of education students , the word " library " for quite a large minority of them meant " fines " ( although there was no fines system in the college library ) . |
| 24 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 25 | For quite a large number of items , the relationship with the answer to this question was statistically significant . |
| 26 | Three or four bedroom houses and bungalows with space for either a large lounge or small office/utility room and second bathroom . |
| 27 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |