Example sentences of "a large scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to press ahead with new builds on a large scale was based on Provincial 's conviction that it could reduce its losses if given the freedom to operate cost-effective diesel-mechanical rolling stock , allowing shorter but more frequent trains , than having to take on InterCity 's weary cast-off locos and hauled stock . |
| 2 | Belief in the impassibility of God , it is worth noting , was developed in the early Christian centuries against the background of popular religious belief in the world of that day , where gods were no more than human beings on a large scale , subject to the same contingencies , passions , frustrations and feelings of pain or pleasure that determine human nature . |
| 3 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 4 | In education , local government , and health the government has intervened and regulated on a large scale . |
| 5 | Convinced by the foreigners — and the then high price of onions — the farmers took the plunge on a large scale . |
| 6 | is a Sussex Cheddar-type cheese made on a large scale but only from the milk of a single Friesian herd . |
| 7 | Extension is now going forward on a large scale , delays being due partly to the necessity of thorough surveys , partly to the shortage of skilled staff . |
| 8 | These coins give no immediate clues as to their place of minting or indeed their date , for similar coinage in the name of Alexander continued to be made on a large scale for about a hundred years after his death . |
| 9 | Clerics in Bohemia were also landlords on a large scale and , very often , foreigners . |
| 10 | The court rolls show that the Forest law had been generally disregarded , and that the king 's deer had been hunted and the forest timber felled on a large scale . |
| 11 | Winter , who employed 500 wood-cutters , felled timber trees on a large scale , and enclosed about 4,000 acres in coppices to promote growth : by 1641 the deer were ‘ almost destroyed ’ . |
| 12 | for taking a few branches , and between £2 and £10 for the unauthorized building of a cottage or house , to £100 for unwarranted taking of timber on a large scale . |
| 13 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 14 | There seems little probability of a resurrection of residential provision on a large scale although the number of specialist facilities may increase , mainly as a result of initiatives by voluntary associations . |
| 15 | It seemed clear that the Franks were a power in Europe that the Eastern Empire did not dare to challenge on a large scale . |
| 16 | He believes that the report will be recognised internationally as a major step forward in assessing the risks of a large scale disaster arising from the transport of dangerous substances near centres of population . |
| 17 | Metasedimentary rocks are common in south Harris where they occur on a large scale in well-defined belts extending for considerable distances ; up to 15 km in places . |
| 18 | These , if they proceed on a large scale , can have the damaging effect of taking custom away from the town centre on a substantial scale . |
| 19 | Chloramphenicol was the first antibiotic to be prepared synthetically on a large scale , and no difference has been recognized between the therapeutic properties of material made by microbes and by man . |
| 20 | Modern silage-making on a large scale involves the use of sophisticated , expensive machinery which is beyond the economy of a smallholding and not suited to working in small fields . |
| 21 | The logistics of a large scale rock show demand certain necessities and , frankly , there is now way around this . |
| 22 | This intensive project will be on a large scale and will be glamorous . |
| 23 | From the nature conservation viewpoint there could be substantial gains if significant areas of the uplands reverted to a more natural condition without agricultural management , providing that forestry intervention on a large scale ( as agricultural land values fell ) was prevented . |
| 24 | In the Netherlands where Article 3(5) has been used on a large scale , the key element in the definition is that the handicap is external ( i.e. not arising from the farmer 's operating practices ) and permanent in the locality . |
| 25 | The second main type of lending occurs when libraries borrow from one major centre , which because of the size of its collections can provide an effective service on a large scale . |
| 26 | Shaft mining began in the fifteenth century , and by the Industrial Revolution mining was being done on a large scale . |
| 27 | Kaolin , or ‘ china clay ’ , is formed by the decomposition of granite , and Cornwall and Dartmoor were found to have huge deposits which were soon exploited on a large scale . |
| 28 | Two and a half miles north-west of the town centre by the River Meon is the site of the Funtley Iron Mill , an eighteenth-century forge where Henry Cort , whose house remains nearby , developed in 1784 the ‘ dry puddling ’ process for producing wrought iron on a large scale . |
| 29 | The North East CABx have seen the effects of unemployment in their area on a large scale over the last few years . |
| 30 | For three years the war was just a large scale Radio thriller . |