Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a large scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the Second World War this species was hunted , as part of a traditional subsistence economy , by Bedouin tribes but with the development of the oil industry and the introduction of modern vehicles and weapons , hunting parties organised on a large scale rapidly reduced oryx populations to such an extent that they were virtually eliminated . |
| 2 | The court rolls show that the Forest law had been generally disregarded , and that the king 's deer had been hunted and the forest timber felled on a large scale . |
| 3 | Where the terms are applied to a large scale transaction , or at the commencement of a trading relationship , they may be scrutinised by the business 's trading partner , and there may even be some degree of negotiation . |
| 4 | Leachate must , however , be carefully controlled to avoid contamination of surface and below-ground drainage , though further economies can be made by recycling the leaching solution ; if such a process was applied on a large scale the widespread contamination of land and water by natural mine-leaching processes could be considerably reduced . |
| 5 | Kaolin , or ‘ china clay ’ , is formed by the decomposition of granite , and Cornwall and Dartmoor were found to have huge deposits which were soon exploited on a large scale . |
| 6 | Forest survival is thus threatened on a large scale . |
| 7 | This was the origin of the ‘ Crewe ’ locomotive type , which was built on a large scale after the transfer of the GJR works to Crewe , in the planning of which Buddicom was deeply involved . |
| 8 | In education , local government , and health the government has intervened and regulated on a large scale . |
| 9 | is a Sussex Cheddar-type cheese made on a large scale but only from the milk of a single Friesian herd . |
| 10 | These coins give no immediate clues as to their place of minting or indeed their date , for similar coinage in the name of Alexander continued to be made on a large scale for about a hundred years after his death . |
| 11 | Both these products are made on a large scale and can still be regarded as commodities . |
| 12 | Shaft mining began in the fifteenth century , and by the Industrial Revolution mining was being done on a large scale . |
| 13 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) that it is doubly absurd to destroy jobs in the British tobacco industry — as has been done on a large scale — if that leads not to a reduction in tobacco consumption but to the substitution of imported brands of cigarette . |
| 14 | Economic reasons : textbooks produced on a large scale are cheaper . |
| 15 | So an experiment was performed on a large scale using approximately 500µg of expressed protein . |
| 16 | In the Netherlands where Article 3(5) has been used on a large scale , the key element in the definition is that the handicap is external ( i.e. not arising from the farmer 's operating practices ) and permanent in the locality . |
| 17 | Microprogramming was first used on a large scale in the IBM System/360 range of computers , where a common architecture and instruction set had to be implemented on a number of different models the range with widely-varying basic hardware . |
| 18 | Artificial fertilisers ( potash , nitrates ) were not yet used on a large scale : Chilean nitrate imports to Britain had not reached 60,000 tons by 1870 . |
| 19 | The aluminium is being used on a large scale for the first time in Britain in the electrification of the Hooton to Chester line . |
| 20 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 21 | Fur trading had a more insidious ecological impact , for what the indigenous people had taken on a small scale for subsistence was now demanded on a large scale for sale in the south . |
| 22 | However , when traffic calming is introduced on a large scale to Britain , it is vital that the lessons that have been learned in the German experiments are explicitly recognised . |
| 23 | The first plantation crop to be introduced on a large scale was coconut , and the pace of its expansion increased rapidly in the late 1880s and 1890s , mainly in Kurunagala district . |
| 24 | On the other hand , psychotropic drugs such as minor tranquillizers and antidepressants are now being prescribed on a large scale by general practitioners ( Skegg et al. 1977 ) , and this probably contributed to some extent to the increase in overdoses of these substances . |
| 25 | However , it is evident that pressure groups are , in fact , often formed on a large scale and some explanation needs to be offered . |
| 26 | Direct supply by publishers can ease margins , but can also be very costly if undertaken on a large scale . |
| 27 | If , eventually , it becomes possible to increase productivity in this way , and such crop plants are developed on a large scale and for use in a wide variety of environments , it may help to reduce the impact of the enhanced greenhouse effect as well as increasing global food supplies . |
| 28 | R. B. Miller takes as a starting point modern pulsed power technology which , although originating in the UK , has been developed on a large scale in the US . |
| 29 | In Maya territory , complexes of canals and raised fields , some first indicated on a large scale by aerial radar surveys ( New Scientist , 12 June , 1980 , p 232 and Science . |
| 30 | To put it broadly — ignoring all the smaller points of detail — one landscape has grown up piecemeal over centuries , the other is almost entirely planned on a large scale . |