Example sentences of "[vb -s] a large [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with differential rotation , this causes a large amount of mechanical energy and magnetic flux to pass through the surface . |
| 2 | The multielement regional geochemical dataset , which covers a large part of the country , pointed to several areas of potential mineralisation , hitherto unknown , including three areas in Scotland in which particulate gold is associated with pathfinder elements , and gold is associated with arsenic in altered metasediments . |
| 3 | This covers a large portion of flat land and could take the largest planes available , even by today 's standards . |
| 4 | The Cartiera excavation site covers a large expanse of land behind an oil refinery , and dates to 171 BC . |
| 5 | Rachel 's Dairy has grown slowly from selling pots of cream in local shops to a distribution network that covers a large chunk of Britain . |
| 6 | However it is easily identified by the large black blotch that covers a large proportion of its upper body and dorsal fin . |
| 7 | The brand covers a large number of DOC vineyards . |
| 8 | This umbrella term covers a large number of different therapies , which concentrate strongly on the ‘ wholeness ’ of a person and their potential for good . |
| 9 | A traditionally-shaped single-ply black scratchplate covers a large area of the body ( Bakelite then , plastic now ) , secured by correctly-positioned mounting screws , and a finger-rest ( so the player can thumb-pluck the strings ) situated at a slight angle below the G-string , by the end of the neck . |
| 10 | Father Richard Yeo , a Benedictine monk whose parish covers a large area of north Suffolk and south Norfolk is leaving Bungay after seven years . |
| 11 | The Rouge Absolue collection incorporates a large assortment of glorious colours from fluorescent pink Rose Figuratif and true pillar-box red Rouge Symbole , to a deeper , plummy Rouge Baroque and earthy Brun Sepia with sparkling gold hints . |
| 12 | The combination of these features emphasises a large problem for speech recognition — the same word may be spoken in many different ways and never match exactly what the system was trained with . |
| 13 | It specifies a large number of actions to be taken , including the appointment of teachers in each school with , among other duties , a responsibility for interagency liaison . |
| 14 | To evaluate those opposing recommendations , scientists at Ball State University in the United States studies a large number of marathon runners . |
| 15 | The chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific is known appropriately enough as the ‘ Ring of Fire ’ , and although it 's a much more complex , disjointed affair than it may seem from this brief summary , it is unquestionably one of the Earth 's greatest physical features , and contains a large proportion of all the world 's volcanoes . |
| 16 | The Riverside Theatre wardrobe contains a large selection of costumes which are available for hire . |
| 17 | Where staffing allows , many schools/colleges try to ensure that this year contains a large element of new material , rather than a stale repetition of past experience . |
| 18 | They must scoop up or snap up huge numbers of insects each day to fill their stomachs , and each insect contains a large percentage of rather non-nutritious outer-covering . |
| 19 | Bore-hole water rarely contains a large quantity of suspended solids , but , if it contains iron or manganese in solution , the removal of these entails the production of a precipitate that has to be removed by methods similar to those given above . |
| 20 | The BBC survey contains a large number of ‘ before and after ’ reactions by the public . |
| 21 | If the cytochrome oxidase stain is used on the rat somatosensory cortex , the cortex contains a large number of patches shaped like barrels ( Land and Simons 1985 ) . |
| 22 | A public language is one which contains a large number of idiomatic , traditional phrases from which the individual chooses . |
| 23 | Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations . |
| 24 | Difficulties arise with such techniques when it is necessary to choose both the objectives and constraint forms for a design condition that contains a large number of conflicting requirements . |
| 25 | Report 11 ( Alexander and Willcocks 1992 ) contains a large number of annotated examples from our considerable body of transcript material : they repay close analysis . |
| 26 | The book contains a large number of photographs . |
| 27 | It was mentioned earlier that a remotely-sensed image is made up of a number of scan lines and that each scan line contains a large number of pixel values . |
| 28 | The analysis of the English vowel system presented in Chapters 2 and 3 contains a large number of phonemes , and it is not surprising that some phonologists ( who believed in the importance of keeping the total number of phonemes small ) proposed different analyses which contain less than ten vowel phonemes and treat all long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two phonemes each . |
| 29 | As a basic rule , it is useless trying to press any plant , such as a succulent , that contains a large amount of water , but nearly every other type of material can be attempted . |
| 30 | The Gospel contains a large amount of material concerned with the theme of suffering and persecution . |