Example sentences of "be a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been a large dose . |
| 2 | The existence of the SDP has depended on the co-operation of the Liberals and there has always been a large question-mark over its ability to survive as a separate entity . |
| 3 | Being a late developer , I had been small and slim in comparison to most of my peers , and my appearance had been a large part of my character . |
| 4 | The secrecy that surrounded Emor had been a large part of its charm . |
| 5 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 6 | Since 1959 , when the Social Democrats embraced capitalism , German politics has been a large clustering around the centre , with only a few dissenters on the margins . |
| 7 | Recently there has been a large resurgence of interest in NLP systems based upon corpora . |
| 8 | The Conservatives ' worst performances , in contrast , came where they had a majority on the council and there had been a large increase in bills . |
| 9 | First , there has been a large increase in owner-occupation so that about three-quarters of farmland is now farmed by its owners ( see figure 7.4 ) . |
| 10 | The result today has been a large increase in the percentage proportion of rent in relation to a declining turnover figure . |
| 11 | There has been a large increase in the range of beers available and interest is high . |
| 12 | Fourth , there has been a large decline in the number of people who have an active faith of any sort , which includes an understanding of an ‘ afterlife ’ . |
| 13 | As can be seen in Table 1 , throughout this century there has been a large decline in private renting , and a corresponding increase in owner-occupation and council housing , which began to get under way after the First World War . |
| 14 | Recently there has been a large amount of attention ( both media and scientific ) directed towards bathing in seawater with a number of studies conducted around the UK coastline . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend will know that there has been a large influx of people into Dorset , including many people from Scotland and from Wales . |
| 16 | It had not been a large legacy . |
| 17 | In particular the debate focusses on the American variety of independent film , of which there have been a large number at this year 's festival , ranging from Jim Jarmusch 's annoyingly fashionable Mystery Train to Julia Cameron 's God 's Will , which cost only 31,000 dollars to make . |
| 18 | A notable feature of the campaign has been a large number of ‘ do n't knows ’ , with many people waiting until the last minute before deciding how to vote . |
| 19 | There have been a large number of studies which have sought to establish the validity and accuracy of replies to this sort of question . |
| 20 | For example , there have been a large number of initiatives by local authorities in recent years intended to improve the local economy , many of which have been undertaken under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 , to incur expenditure which in the authority 's opinion is in the interests of their area . |
| 21 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 22 | There have been a large number of syntactic theories proposed and an even larger number of parsing systems developed . |
| 23 | In a report issued on May 30 the New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch claimed that there had been a large number of dissident trials in China during the previous six months . |
| 24 | The United States based organization Asia Watch reported in May 1991 that there had been a large number of secret trials of dissidents during the previous six months . |
| 25 | Fortunately there have been a large number of more recent studies which have used more meaningful manipulations of arousal . |
| 26 | 2.8 There have been a large number of judicial observations over the years about the general nature of the remedy established by fatal accidents legislation . |
| 27 | Elsewhere in the town the number of burglaries remains high but there have also been a large number of arrests made in the last seven days . |
| 28 | The estate agency sector has been one of the most dynamic industrial sectors in 1980s Britain , and there has been a large growth both in the number of firms of estate agents and in the numbers employed within these firms . |
| 29 | There has been a large growth in the number of buy-out/buy-in deals carried out , at the expense of start-up business . |
| 30 | For example , in West Germany , which has invested heavily in traffic-calming measures in the past 10 years , there has been a large drop in pedestrian fatalities , from 6.2 to 2.3 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 63 per cent . |