Example sentences of "[art] large proportion [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French refused to take part in the project because Dassault was not to receive the largest proportion of the contracts and , in June 1992 , Germany decided that , since the threat from the Warsaw pact was gone and she was unlikely to participate in out-of-area conflicts , she had no more use for the aircraft . |
| 2 | The large proportion of the impressions made to what they see , how they visualize you , so if you look a mess you 're backing on the wrong foot , you give , you 're getting off to a bad start straight away and be aware of hidden signals that you 'll give your emanating . |
| 3 | Lose weight more quickly than ever before , because a larger proportion of the calories you consume will remain undigested ; |
| 4 | On most lithologies landforms related directly to weathering tend to be minor features , but on rock types such as limestones , in which a large proportion of the products of chemical weathering processes are removed in solution , major landforms can be produced . |
| 5 | A large proportion of the posts already announced for relocation are destined for locations targeted by our regional development or urban programme policies and we expect that about 60 per cent . |
| 6 | A large proportion of the miniatures are attributable to known artists such as Jean Bourdichon : four sheets by this artist were originally in a Book of Hours belonging to Henry VII of England and are among the great finds of the collection . |
| 7 | This is a matter about which many sociolinguists feel sensitive , particularly since a large proportion of the communities which they study are repressed indigenous groups like the Aborigines , or underprivileged ethnic minorities like the American blacks or British Asians . |
| 8 | While it is usually difficult to hide the evidence that an accident has occurred , with an incident it can be only too easy in a large proportion of the cases to pretend that nothing very extraordinary has happened . |
| 9 | In a large proportion of the cases , when they can be applied at all , both uses — associative and ascriptive — make equally good sense because the facts observed or imagined can be described equally well either way ; the mental , linguistic , difference is there but both mental representations can be mapped onto the same single external situation . |
| 10 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 11 | Wealthy people paid a large proportion of the taxes , however , and there was a levelling upwards of income . |
| 12 | Welcome though North sea oil taxation revenues are , does my hon. Friend agree that they are not a large proportion of the taxes paid in the United Kingdom ? |
| 13 | This Committee has rejected quite a large proportion of the officers proposed statements . |
| 14 | A large proportion of the women in the column were pregnant , and many were carrying young babies in their arms . |
| 15 | A large proportion of the ancestors of the Sinhalese were more recent immigrants from southern India who adopted Sinhalese language and culture . |
| 16 | If you consider the markets for most convenience goods , they are established markets , in which a large proportion of the buyers have tried most of the major brands available . |
| 17 | This would be quite sufficient to lend distinctness to the double-bass part , and would leave a large proportion of the cellos free to play the 1st cello part . |
| 18 | They need to be able to recognise on sight a large proportion of the words they encounter and to be able to predict meaning on the basis of phonic , idiomatic and grammatical regularities and of what makes sense in context ; children should be encouraged to make informed guesses . |
| 19 | A large proportion of the children who are television addicts are already maladjusted . |
| 20 | They found that a large proportion of the children had already spent the greater part of their lives in care . |
| 21 | A large proportion of the children have been referred to the school from mainstream schools where they have frequently been seen as having severe behaviour problems . |
| 22 | A large proportion of the clowns today were young men , like Alan , returning to the village for the day and wanting to preserve the tradition for their own children . |
| 23 | A large proportion of the books were most probably unread . |
| 24 | That such a large proportion of the types in the news wire sample were not found in the W7 dictionary is a worrying statistic . |
| 25 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that a large proportion of the candidates selected were " young and doveish " . |
| 26 | ( The surplus could be greater than the number of transferable votes — if , for example , a large proportion of the votes were non-transferable . |
| 27 | Such a system will be highly resistant to the effects of damage to individual modules and will only begin to show marked alterations in function when a large proportion of the modules has been damaged . |
| 28 | These arbitrageurs are also market makers in a large proportion of the shares in the FT-SE 100 index , and so they can buy and sell shares ‘ in-house ’ to and from the firm 's own market makers . |
| 29 | This sort of difference of opinion resurfaced in October 1987 , when the sale of the Government 's remaining holding in BP was adjudged a disaster because the issue was greatly undersubscribed leaving a large proportion of the shares with the underwriters who had undertaken to ‘ insure ’ the issue . |
| 30 | Japan shredded a large proportion of the dolphins it hunted and turned them into fertiliser . |