Example sentences of "[vb pp] to a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communism is committed to a large number of goals , but for our purpose three stand out : the abolition of private property , the abolition of the family and the abolition of religion . |
| 2 | The panels were built up from small components , enabling work to be subcontracted to a large number of small engineering firms without disrupting heavy engineering production . |
| 3 | Against a background of rising unemployment and deepening recession , blamed to a large extent on economic mismanagement by Tories in London , some feared John Major 's staunch defence of the Union could only drive more voters to Labour and the Liberal Democrats , both promising a Scottish Parliament . |
| 4 | Both problems were solved to a large extent by the introduction of copper sheathing about 1770 . |
| 5 | Where the terms are applied to a large scale transaction , or at the commencement of a trading relationship , they may be scrutinised by the business 's trading partner , and there may even be some degree of negotiation . |
| 6 | A term often applied to a large group system is an organisation and these are usually created to accomplish a specific purpose , for example a hospital is organised for the treatment of people with disease ; and is perhaps within a yet larger organisation , a national health service , which in addition is responsible for maintenance of health , prevention of disease and rehabilitation . |
| 7 | They are then moved to a large pit , usually close to the spawning site , where they take a further 6–7 days to become free-swimming . |
| 8 | It could have accepted the proposals which I put forward to rationalise and institutionalise the administrative jurisdiction in a boldly-conceived system of administrative courts separated to a large extent from the ordinary routine of departmental administration and free from indirect ministerial interference . |
| 9 | Three Senior Professional Officers ( SPOs ) were rapidly appointed to County Hall posts to act as a channel of communication for the CMHTs ( for the sake of simplicity , the key contribution of the SPOs is subsumed to a large extent within our discussion of the CMHTs ) . |
| 10 | They spent £100 on recording the two songs at the tiny Billiard Room studio , which is housed in a garage connected to a large house in a residential part of Leeds . |
| 11 | The difficulty is that , on a cursory inspection , what is inside the box is a grey mush , which , on examination under the microscope , turns out to consist of a confusingly large number of nerve cells ( some 10 11 in man ) , each connected to a large number of others . |
| 12 | In the line outs , so well did the Irish vary their throws that England 's much greater height advantage was nullified to a large degree through the efforts of Johns and Galwey , with the former having his best ever match in the Irish jersey . |
| 13 | One recommendation made to a large number of departments , however , was for changes in teaching methods , notably the introduction of more oral work . |
| 14 | In recent years this aspect has been corrected to a large extent through the response of Third World Christian thinkers and the radical discipleship movement which is emerging among younger Christians in the more affluent nations . |
| 15 | While visiting his house , Gould 's ever-watchful eye was drawn to a large collection of watercolours painted by Sturt of parrots that he had collected on his various excursions . |
| 16 | This was originally suggested by the work of Cassuto et al , who , in a series of reports , showed that secretion evoked by cholera toxin in anaesthetised rata and cats was mediated to a large extent via the ENS . |
| 17 | This formidable operation was well planned and ably conducted , but it was helped to a large extent by the widespread resentment which Theodore 's policy had engendered . |
| 18 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 19 | Therefore , the treatment approach is based to a large extent on the principles of crisis intervention ( Caplan 1964 ; Brandon 1979 ; Ewing 1978 ; Bancroft 1979 ) . |
| 20 | More specifically , the rise of the Labour Party in Preston was based to a large extent on the ways in which forms of skill structured certain capacities for political action , in which gender solidarity affected political forms , and in which the social structure determined class alliances ( pp 40–1 ) . |
| 21 | When we focus on differences between Japan and the West it has been common to paint pictures based to a large extent on our general impression of how relations at work offer such sharply contrasting attitudes to work . |
| 22 | In the end , William 's invasion manifesto , which was based to a large extent on a draft sent to him from England by Danby , emphasised grievances that had a special appeal for Anglicans and Tories . |
| 23 | In that case , the opportunity to earn remuneration arose when the appellant obtained the grant of a tenancy of a public house owned by and tied to a large brewery company . |
| 24 | Use pattern that is appropriate to the style and size of your home — a small sprig design looks far more at home in a Victorian cottage than a grand , formally patterned carpet that would be better suited to a large room . |
| 25 | From what has been said it will be clear that gilt yields and gilt prices are driven to a large extent by present and anticipated future interest rates . |
| 26 | Since the start of the project I have spoken to a large number of disabled people who often begin by describing their daytime occupation or the type of work they would like to do . |
| 27 | Leaflets have been distributed to a large number of Colleges Institutes and Dance Studios . |
| 28 | Greater credence was given to quantitative data , judged ‘ representative ’ , to be obtained by a questionnaire administered to a large number of gypsies . ’ |
| 29 | It is also worth bearing in mind that data on the benefits of conventional antihypertensive therapy have been derived to a large extent from subjects less than 65 years of age ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | The laser printer can be linked to a large number of terminals working independently , which maximises its usefulness . |