Example sentences of "very large [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress . |
| 2 | Very large birds of prey , with long broad wings , broad tail , legs feathered , and plumage usually some shade of dark brown , the adults darker than the young . |
| 3 | Of course there was a very large element of luck involved , but unless or until something better came along it was the only option she had . |
| 4 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 5 | Image capturing and processing techniques have enabled some North Sea platform designers to use electronic communication techniques for virtually instantaneous updating of multiple copies of design ‘ drawings ’ at scattered sites , thus saving very large amounts of money . |
| 6 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 7 | A videodisc can hold very large amounts of pictorial , textual and sound material , for instance 54,000 still images on one side of a disc . |
| 8 | PCR can produce very large amounts of DNA from organisms . |
| 9 | The difficulty arose in that some of the children had several stools per day , but apparently evacuated incompletely , as shown by periodic passage of very large amounts of stool or the presence of a faecal impaction . |
| 10 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 11 | University libraries ( particularly those in the United States , but also in the UK ) tend to accumulate very large amounts of material indeed , as will be clear from reading the chapter on standards in this book . |
| 12 | But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel . |
| 13 | Network File System can provide only ‘ weak clustering ’ , while the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment is ‘ a very large chunk of code not fully shaken out ’ , according to Fitzgerald , and has a lot of baggage that does n't apply to clustering , ‘ when you have SQL access right there ’ . |
| 14 | Even during World War II , a very large proportion of child care ( and the entire work of housework and shopping ) remained the province of the women worker , subject to whatever private arrangements she could make with friends and relatives . |
| 15 | We do have a very large proportion of holiday accommodation and second homes , which are concentrated in certain parts of the county . |
| 16 | Scats may be accumulated outside den entrances ( Poole , 1970 ) , and a very large assemblage of polecat scats has been collected from an area less than two metres square outside a den in Rhosgogh Bog in mid-Wales . |
| 17 | The construction of that channel will require the excavation of a very large quantity of sand and gravel . |
| 18 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 19 | Export requires resources for capital investment , which excludes the small farmer , but the growing of fruit and vegetables does not necessitate very large tracts of land and , therefore , the medium-sized farmer can accommodate this . |
| 20 | The Despatch on 9 September , as the dispute was reaching its climax , reported : It is claimed by the men that they are receiving a very large measure of support from the women . |
| 21 | yeah , follow that , er in so far as it 's , it 's a counterclaim of course , erm , but then er er unlike a , a set off , with the set off was established as a matter of English law , that , as far as the counterclaim is concerned , the course as I understand the rules is a very large measure of discretion , as to whether or not it er , it stays the claim on , or , erm , erm simply say no they 'd be a judgment claim , immediate enforcement , and of , the counterclaim go off to trial |
| 22 | In fact , the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word . |
| 23 | There was unanimity among the teachers about awarding marks for ( a ) and a very large measure of agreement that some aspects of ( b ) should also count towards the assessment . |
| 24 | A subsequent search and investigation of her papers , such as they were , revealed a very large cargo of brandy in the hold , damning correspondence with the ships ' agent in Belgium , and some unconvincing reasons for her change of destination from Sweden to Spain . |
| 25 | Taken together with the very large percentage of investment in heavy industry held by foreign interests , this presented a formidable obstacle to the emergence of a politically powerful business lobby . |
| 26 | The goal of this is to stop needless generation of very large quantities of approval work for each approval attempt . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind that there are probably more than 5,000 warehouses of this kind throughout the world holding very large quantities of stock between them this suggests that the risk of them catching fire is very small ; although the individual loss if one were to catch fire is considerable . |
| 28 | When David came back to Hawkers a week or so later , he found on his desk a very large can of tomato juice . |
| 29 | Its widely available policy leaflet now acknowledges that , ‘ it is clear that a very large part of school biology need not involve dissection ’ whilst warning that students intending careers in the subject ( and in associated areas like dentistry , or human or veterinary science ) will be required to dissect at college or university level . |
| 30 | Such counter-examples have led some philosophers attracted to the logico-linguistic conception to take the audacious course which involves , in part , simply ignoring the very large part of consciousness which does not fall under the conception . |