Example sentences of "on a scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately not only did growth return but on a scale far exceeding expectations . |
| 2 | Well , although spaying is a common operation ( not common enough for my liking ! ) , it 's a very intricate operation and , on a scale of 0–10 for complexity , rates a good five . |
| 3 | As a divider ( Fig.5 ) , the Z input becomes the numerator , the denominator being at X. Gain is , again , adjustable by the use of an attenuator between output and Y2 , a technique that is used to advantage in the percentage computer in Fig. 6 , which gives the percentage deviation of A against B on a scale of 1 V per 1% . |
| 4 | who would not have shown weight on a scale |
| 5 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 6 | The latest CBI surveys suggest that more stockbuilding has indeed occurred , although not on a scale sufficient to explain the trade figures . |
| 7 | After the 21 May rally , demonstrations became relatively commonplace and on a scale which would have been unthinkable a month earlier . |
| 8 | The burgeoning of the property-owning democracy and the flight of refugees from city life has turned boundary disputing in the country into a sport on a scale comparable with fox-hunting or skittling . |
| 9 | Its tableaux of suffering and benediction are on a scale that easily matches Faure 's score and its concluding lifts are exquisite — the women floating high above the men like angels breast-stroking through paradise . |
| 10 | Each country is rated ( by a panel of local experts ) on 15 economic , political and financial factors , on a scale of 0 to 4 . |
| 11 | National Home Energy Rating ( NHER ) assesses the efficiency of heating , lighting and domestic appliances on a scale of one to 10 . |
| 12 | Its erection came a month after the then 12-year-old state — in the face of a grave economic crisis — had been forced to reorganise its ministries and faced an outflow of its citizens to the West on a scale ( 200,000 in 1960 alone ) mirroring this year 's flood of refugees . |
| 13 | Financial support for East European economies will have to be allocated among Western countries : budgetary politics on a scale which will dwarf the arguments over existing Community expenditure . |
| 14 | ‘ If we do not act then thousands more will come floating in on the early spring tides , maybe tens of thousands , even hundreds , and they will bring chaos and suffering on a scale far larger than anything we have seen so far , ’ he warned . |
| 15 | This did not happen ; instead Soviet-American military rivalry generated the nuclear , conventional , and space arms races on a scale that dwarfed British efforts . |
| 16 | The forearms are Saddam 's , reproduced exactly from life on a scale of 40:1 , down to the very follicles . |
| 17 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 18 | This must be the product of a great conspiracy , on a scale so immense and of an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man . ’ |
| 19 | The political allies of the Popular Television Association were initially limited to a handful of young Conservative backbenchers like John Profumo and Selwyn Lloyd , but they ran a public-relations campaign on a scale , and of a sophistication , which had not been seen before in Britain . |
| 20 | It is a gesture of faith in the future on a scale that takes the breath away and confounds the gloom merchants . |
| 21 | Tourism is never going to pay on a scale that covers the major repairs which are going to clobber you . ’ |
| 22 | His Denplan subscriptions range from a monthly £5.90 for category A ( mostly young children ) rising on a scale of £7.50 , £9.90 , £14.80 to the top category . |
| 23 | The earlier sought opportunities for growth and development of liberal adult education became available on a scale hitherto impossible for voluntary organisations , and for the universities through their extra-mural functions . |
| 24 | In addition , and as a result of the work undertaken by its resident tutors in Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire , the Board had developed systematic provision of all types of classes and courses on a scale beyond that imaginable if the District had been the sole provider . |
| 25 | ‘ On a scale of one to ten , how would you rate our parents ? |
| 26 | A new geological map ( The Outer Hebrides ) on a scale of 1:100000 was published by the British Geological Survey ( BGS ) in 1981 , and a detailed report on the entire region is in an advanced state of preparation . |
| 27 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 28 | Then resources and manpower became available on a scale coercion could never match — and one of government 's major preoccupations became to control and guide popular attitudes and the process of socialization in order to ensure an adequate tax base and flow of manpower . |
| 29 | From 1985 there were demolitions of homes , arrests and expulsions on a scale unsurpassed during the more explicitly doctrinaire tenure of Likud , 1977–84 . |
| 30 | Their coming was hymned in art and literature on a scale of imagination and power which the steam train 's unromantic supplanter , the motor car , wholly failed to inspire . |