Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [adj] scale [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process is known as convection , and it is widely , but not universally , believed to work on a huge scale in the mantle . |
| 2 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |