Example sentences of "a large [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In other cases , such as the Dead Sea Rift , there is a significant transform component in the extensional movement and this feature can in fact be regarded as a large pull-apart basin ( see Section 3.5 ) .
2 The other is connected essentially or actually in parallel with the load through a large enough resistance R to swamp the inductive reactance , also as indicated in figure 7.2(b) .
3 The problem of assessing which of the team members has made a large enough contribution to the result to warrant their name appearing in the author list for the published paper is rather difficult .
4 The problem of assessing which of the team members has made a large enough contribution to the result to warrant their name appearing in the author list for the published paper is rather difficult .
5 There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies .
6 There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies .
7 Questionnaires , interviews , etc. should be planned with extreme care ( a pilot survey is indispensable in almost every circumstance ) , and must be completed by , administered to , etc. a large enough proportion of the total of users to render the results statistically valid .
8 A. If you find a house or flat you could buy but ca n't get a large enough building society or bank mortgage , the local authority may be able to help in the following ways :
9 The computer should have a large enough memory ( RAM ) for the programs you want to run on it , and operate fast enough for your needs and temperament .
10 Opposite top left : If you have a large enough bathroom , you may be able to keep the sink separate from the bath , so that two or more members of the family can use the bathroom at once .
11 Although he has a large enough income to support them both , he puts most of it into a building society and also invests money in shares .
12 If the rational expectations hypothesis is correct we should find , provided that we have a large enough sample , that the coefficient estimated on each variable in equation ( 3.3 ) is approximately the same as the coefficient estimated on the same variable in equation ( 3.4 ) ; that is , β 1 should equal γ 1 , β 2 should equal γ 2 , and so on .
13 If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that .
14 However , so few of the possible quadgrams occur in the LOB ( and of those found , 70% only occur once ) that it would appear that the LOB corpus is not a large enough sample of text to provide a reliable quadgram model .
15 A large enough space on the floor must be found , or the track must wind between the legs of tables and chairs .
16 All major WordPerfect products will be developed for IBM OS/2 2.0 Although technically superior to Microsoft Windows and even offering Windows 3.0 software compatibility , OS/2 suffers from not having a large enough software base and not yet having reached a critical mass of users .
17 In addition to the question of impact , the qualitative research so far described has the disadvantage — in many people 's eyes — of not being on a large enough scale .
18 They failed to invest and invest efficiently on a large enough scale ; they failed to develop sufficient numbers of new products and they failed to raise productivity rapidly enough .
19 Parents with an existing mortgage are eligible , so long as they still own a large enough chunk of the equity .
20 It will never be a large enough part of the family budget to create an adequate financial incentive for people to change their ways .
21 What the DECies say they have is a 150MHz chip with a large enough heat sink ( palm-sized ) that it does n't need a fan to dissipate Alpha 's heat .
22 We had no friends in Manchester with a large enough house .
23 ‘ As long as there was a large enough interval between trains running into London , no train would be close enough to the one in front to be affected by the faulty signal . ’
24 799 out of 1,880 comments is a large enough amount to seriously compromise any conclusions about the number of potential risks visible in any stimulus .
25 In the lowlands the basic facts of land use have already been outlined in Table 8.2 ( 8th line of data ) and although there have been a number of local studies of landscape change ( Blacksell and Gilg , 1981 ) , only nationally commissioned studies can provide a large enough resource base for an adequate survey of both landscape change and the behavioural aspects behind the change .
26 Given a large enough supply of machine catalogues and enough flexibility of mind to give yourself different problems , an inventive woodworker could spend the entire winter playing this game .
27 Unfortunately , we 're not yet able to get a large enough supply of completely CFC-free material , but do hope to be able to in the near future .
28 This implies that the Estate Agents ' dictionary does not cover a large enough subset of the language used in the Banking text to provide significantly representative collocations .
29 But , obviously , do not wash all the media in one go : stagger the chambers at weekly intervals , so there will always be a large enough population of nitrifying bacteria left .
30 A sequence of mild winters with low deer mortality and declining competition from sheep have contributed to this increase , but the main cause is the consistent failure of many estates to balance the number of stags shot with a large enough cull of hinds — a labour-intensive process with small returns from the sale of venison .
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