Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] on [art] [adj] scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | I propose to broadcast on a world-wide scale , a message to the good folk of this fair planet . ’ |
| 2 | But it is certainly the object of quantum mechanical discourse and , for all the peculiarity of its collapse , its subtle essence may be the form that reality has to take on the atomic scale and below . |
| 3 | The process is known as convection , and it is widely , but not universally , believed to work on a huge scale in the mantle . |
| 4 | It seemed clear that the Franks were a power in Europe that the Eastern Empire did not dare to challenge on a large scale . |
| 5 | Europeans are not used to change on a major scale . |
| 6 | ‘ Buying paper in rolls in economical and , because I like to work on a large scale , provides greater potential for expression . |
| 7 | Hence , there is little that is surprising , in my view , in the fact that when movements for popular sovereignty and democracy began to develop on a large scale among colonial and dependent peoples , in the course of the twentieth century , they should have taken as their political model the established nation states , and have become strongly infused with nationalism . |
| 8 | It was when power reached the cotton , woollen , and iron industries that the face of the country really began to change on a large scale , and that was not until the 1770s . |
| 9 | Despite the damage , the Tomsk-7 plant is continuing to operate on a reduced scale . |
| 10 | While non-verbal communication of the kinds described above have a powerful role in underlining , reinforcing or betraying our feelings and aspirations , the moment we try to communicate on a wider scale than inter-personal , we must look at other sign systems to convey meaning . |
| 11 | Now her parents had come home for good , and had taken a beautiful house in Buckinghamshire , where Mrs Grant meant to entertain on a large scale . |
| 12 | It was probably intended to rebuild on a grander scale with an additional floor , but the work was curtailed , and the extra floor not added . |
| 13 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 14 | In the older nation states , after the war , fascist parties disappeared ( although they have begun to re-emerge on a small scale in recent years ) , regional and nationalist parties have been formed within existing states , there has been a succession of new political parties ( and destruction of them by military intervention ) in Latin America , while in some European countries there has been a revival of liberal and ‘ centre ’ parties and the emergence of ‘ green ’ parties . |