Example sentences of "[vb pp] into a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 2 | The contents are then sucked into a large tank on a trailer , which is taken to a local refuse treatment works , where it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned . |
| 3 | She was shown into a large office with a hard-backed chair facing the interview desk . |
| 4 | Gastric acid was diverted into a large bore collection tube via the opened gastric cannula . |
| 5 | In Leicestershire , a six acre disused quarry had been developed into a large fish pond providing an attraction for anglers and the farmer with a lucrative alternate source of income . |
| 6 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 7 | Thus the probability of violence is high where : the industry is fragmented into a large number of firms ; workers of the strike-hit firm are well-paid , but easily replaced ( notably under conditions of high unemployment ) ; union leaders condone the use of violence ; the strike issues relate to matters of ‘ union security ’ rather than pay ; and institutions like the police and media implicitly condone violence . |
| 8 | In 1911 he had acquired , with Lloyd George and the attorney-general , Sir Rufus Isaacs ( later first Marquess of Reading , q.v. ) , a personal shareholding in the American Marconi Company , soon after the British Marconi Company had entered into a large contract with the British government . |
| 9 | By section 38 , an authorised institution other than one whose principal place of business is outside the United Kingdom is obliged to make a report to the Bank of England when it has entered into a large transaction as defined by the section with consequent large exposure to risk . |
| 10 | Finite element analysis requires the subject — in this case the club head — to be translated into a large number of computational cells or elements . |
| 11 | Then it was simply laid on the floor of the tomb , or forced into a large storage jar which was laid on its side in the tomb ; a third alternative , which became more popular with time , was to place the trussed corpse in a clay box or larnax . |
| 12 | Before sunset ( and particularly if a shower is expected ) each row can be raked into a large number of small cocks , or rowed up into narrow swathes . |
| 13 | They consisted of an elaborate sequence of libations poured into a large vessel on an altar between two double-axes mounted on painted pyramidal bases ; grave-goods were dedicated to the sheepskin-draped statue of a god in front of another altar ; offerings of food and drink were dedicated at a third altar set up in front of a sacred tree shrine ; music was played and an ox and two goats were sacrificed . |
| 14 | She was ushered into a large room filled with fine ornaments and luxurious furnishings . |
| 15 | Suppose the economy is not one large , unified entity but is instead divided into a large number of islands . |