Example sentences of "a large [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 2 | It was a lengthy and not a little dangerous , chemical process requiring the gas to be cooled through a large tub of water from barrels containing iron filings onto which sulphuric acid had been poured . |
| 3 | When , for example , the suspension of British motor cars collapsed under continental road conditions or when spare parts were not available for machine tools , initially only the reputation of British goods was damaged ; but the frequency of such occurrences amounted to a large accumulation of market ill-will by the early 1950s [ Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 4 | It has a large accumulation of books , manuscripts , maps and pictures . |
| 5 | He took a large swallow of pastis , and looked at his watch pointedly . |
| 6 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 7 | A virulent ideological onslaught was waged against the miners by an unsympathetic media and a large cross-section of politicians . |
| 8 | We are asking a large cross-section of people and organizations around the country to help by allowing us to record their conversations , |
| 9 | The interior was never sufficiently plastic close to the surface for long enough to cause widespread geological activity such as Plate Tectonics , largely because the Moon has a large ratio of surface area to mass and thus loses heat relatively rapidly ( section 2.1.16 ) . |
| 10 | Jim Turner , now at Nottingham University , and his group condensed Cr(CO) 6 into a matrix with a large excess of argon and irradiated the whole with UV light . |
| 11 | You are buying a house precisely because it comes with a large plot of land . |
| 12 | Such a high ratio of prevalence to incidence suggests either a long lead time , which is not typical of the invasive cancers that are the intended target of the screening programme , or a large element of overdiagnosis of slowly progressive disease , or both . |
| 13 | They must be ascribed the status due to calculations which contain a large element of estimation . |
| 14 | Even to pose such questions reminds us that there was a large element of chance in the emergence of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 15 | Every change in local government finance , whether by revaluation or the introduction of the community charge , has been accompanied by a large element of extravagance by many local authorities . |
| 16 | They found their pupils thriving on a kind of learning which requires a minimum of factual knowledge , a large element of challenge and a great deal of experience in dealing with situations using particular kinds of thinking and practical skills . |
| 17 | In these circumstances almost every eighteenth-century army was likely to contain a large element of ne'er-do-wells , social misfits and even criminals . |
| 18 | There was certainly a large element of irony in his demeanour and conversation , although it was a quality not immediately apparent when he was in the company of more sober or " respectable " people ; in those circumstances he could , as it were , give as good as he got . |
| 19 | He also acquired the chemists ' chains , Timothy Whites and Taylors , gained a large stake in cinemas , and purchased the exhibition centre at Olympia . |
| 20 | Johnnies ' newspaper interests include two major South African newspaper groups , Argus Holdings Limited ( 22.3 per cent ) and Times Media Limited ( 32.1 per cent ) which in turn have a large stake in South Africas only subscription TV station . |
| 21 | That has made him , over the years , distinctly uncomfortable company — at least to those with a large stake in applecarts . |
| 22 | I settle to a large Lagavulin in relief , and watch Martin Stephenson illustrate just why he is a full-time professional and I am a dilettante moonlighting journalist with the eternal excuse that there might be a column in it . |
| 23 | This time a secretary answered , saying that as her employer ‘ has a large backlog of books to read , he found the addition of another one rather an embarrassment … he has passed it to a friend in a London hospital . ’ |
| 24 | Reports suggested that Lekhanya might have successfully forestalled a coup attempt — Radio Lesotho reported that a large cache of arms had been found at the home of Lt.-Col. Sekhobe Letsie . |
| 25 | It was a large cache of arms . |
| 26 | Like the well regarded YJ Lowell , Crest is interested in urban regeneration , and a large development in Swindon should start contributing to profits next year . |
| 27 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 28 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 29 | To deal with these issues in democratic decision-making , we shall need a large dose of economics and a fair helping of political science . |
| 30 | In the meantime , I would suggest you clean your system and your tongue with a large dose of Syrup of Figs . ’ |