Example sentences of "a large [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question arises as to why a longer ( 60 second ) delay should allow a larger and thus excessive transfusion . |
| 2 | Now , with all Europe freed to unite ( or to fall apart ) , the time has come to devise a shorter , clearer replacement of all that has gone before — a constitution designed for a larger and more disparate union . |
| 3 | And Wagner spelled out the means : " I should like to advise you not to touch on such incredible views in short essays written … for popular effect , but … to concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject . " |
| 4 | The material of the two lectures , though not originally envisaged in this connection , provided the starting point — but only in the light of Wagner 's flattering advice to " concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject " . |
| 5 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 6 | To help build a larger and more integrated research group of economists at Oxford who are active in the area of industrial economics . |
| 7 | This vital question , said the astrozoologists with mounting authority , would not be answered until a larger and more powerful gantry was constructed for a deep-space vessel . |
| 8 | The reason for accepting this approach rather than asking for a ‘ block allocation ’ is simply the conviction that the summation of functional budgets produces a larger and more defensible total . |
| 9 | The emergency consists of a takeover bid by a larger and more aggressive company . |
| 10 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 11 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 12 | Consequently due diligence forms a larger and more important part of share sales than of asset sales and in terms of legal costs can be an expensive process . |
| 13 | In May 1958 , just a year after the Navy 's ‘ Fairlead ’ presentation at Greenwich , they mounted a larger and more elaborate seminar of their own , called Exercise ‘ Prospect ’ , at the Royal Commonwealth Society in Northumberland Avenue , London , to put the RAF case to the opinion-makers . |
| 14 | This is a larger and more active membership than most other all-party groups can claim . |
| 15 | And as the disposal industry becomes more capital-intensive , in response to the rise in standards , disposal plants need a larger and more reliable stream of material . |
| 16 | Monnet 's mission was twofold : to improve Giraud 's reactionary image in the Allied press by eliminating the most blatant traces of Vichy rule in North Africa ; and to find a formula for unifying Giraudists and Gaullists in such a way as to absorb de Gaulle 's movement into a larger and less political organization . |
| 17 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 18 | Although they are a larger and less tightly-knit group , this might well also apply to agency secretarial workers . |
| 19 | Any mortgage increase undertaken for personal reasons ( for example , to obtain capital , maximise tax allowances ) or purely as a result of purchasing a larger or more desirable property will not qualify for assistance . |
| 20 | The work for this group had been arranged on a large but highly specialised farm , which concentrated on growing bulbs , flowers and potatoes . |
| 21 | He is right : by both Mughal and French standards it is a large but hardly dramatic garden . |
| 22 | It would hardly be surprising if so many organisations , each with a finger in a large but nonetheless limited pie , sometimes disagreed on how the money should be spent . |
| 23 | He was a large and outwardly jovial man in his early fifties , with a gift for generating publicity for himself and his products . |
| 24 | The local gentry were Sir John and Lady Wardley , who lived at Seaton Cramer Hall , a large and dramatically sombre stately pile set in wooded grounds about two miles inland from Cramer . |
| 25 | We were unable to show a statistically significant effect , however , of this time on the labelling index in a large and similarly prepared series of colorectal mucosa . |
| 26 | Ostermark is a large and mostly rural province , lying at the north eastern edge of the Empire . |
| 27 | Swimming and Fitness : There is a large and well organised fitness complex at Soll . |
| 28 | Whisk the egg whites in a large and completely grease-free bowl , preferably with a balloon whisk or rotary beater . |
| 29 | The Project provides a focus and catalyst for a large and continuously growing network of working groups whose emphasis is always on the development of professionalism and improved practice . |
| 30 | It was , I think , unlikely that the white Rhodesians — who had already shown some signs of division in their opinion — would have remained undivided indefinitely and a breakaway group might well have sought the allegiance of the black population , enabling them to play a large and even decisive role in government . |