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

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1 Information is wanted from both sources since the Text710 has a larger vocabulary ( approximately 68,200 words ) than the corpus ( approximately 38,000 purely lexical strings ) .
2 It is twenty times faster , has a larger memory , is thousands of times more reliable , consumes the power of a light bulb rather than that of a locomotive , occupies 1/30,000 the volume and costs 1/10,000 as much .
3 Glaucous has a larger head and neck and heavier bill , recalling Great Black-back , whereas the Iceland 's are notably smaller and slenderer .
4 The width of the product line is also important , in that a wide product line may make it worthwhile for the manufacturer to market direct because the salesperson has a larger product portfolio with which to interest the customer , and this makes for more profit-earning potential .
5 The 750 also has a larger bench surface , 29in long and 13in wide ( with the narrower , 4–3/4in jaw closed up to the wider 8–1/4in one ) and it will grip wider objects , as the vice jaws can be spaced further apart .
6 It is worth carrying out this simple exercise to disprove the common fallacy that the shape derived from chopping off the top of the cone at an angle is egg shaped ( the assumption is that the end closest to the base of the cone has a larger radius because the cone is larger there ) , in fact both ends have the same radius , it 's an ellipse — try it .
7 They are best told apart by the differences in head shape — labiatum has thicker lips and citrinellum has a larger hump resulting in a steeper forehead profile .
8 Down the hill and past the Rotunda do Infante ( roundabout with fountains ) and the statue of Dom Henrique ( Prince Henry the Navigator ) , we pass the Centro Comercial do Infante , which has a large variety of shops and restaurants .
9 The automatic recognition of handwritten words and digits is an important but difficult task that now has a large literature ( see Harmon , 1972 ; Tappert et al , 1990 ) .
10 The kitchen garden has a large conservatory with an old vine and cucumber frames straight out of Beatrix Potter .
11 There 's an unelected civil servant in who has a large element in deciding where they are , and that is wrong .
12 Besides exhibiting worldwide , the one-time teacher at the Royal College of Art has a large painting on show in the National Museum of Wales and his work can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London .
13 The initiative has a large core project located at London Business School , a group of smaller research teams forming a supplementary core , and then a group of projects arranged around four themes : Finance , Skills , Product Markets and Collaboration .
14 The building has a large narthex extending the whole width of the church with three saucer domes over it .
15 The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt .
16 Make sure that the board you buy has a large daggerboard ( longer than 50cm ) which fully retracts into the hull leaving nothing sticking out under the board .
17 It has a large collar and deep pockets — the tassels are an optional feature added once the garment has been made up .
18 The rate of energy production , , also has a large peak close to the wall .
19 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 . ’
20 The film has a large surface area and the dye absorbs much of the visible light shining on it .
21 A tree without leaves has a smaller surface area as compared with a tree with leaves which has a large surface area .
22 Sometimes a comparatively-small apparent amount of media has a large surface area ( foam , sintered glass ) ; in other cases an apparently large amount of media has a small effective surface area ( under-maintained clogged gravel is the best example ) .
23 The National Savings Bank has a large branch network in that its services are provided through post offices and sub-post offices , although of course the nature of these outlets differs considerably from those of the building societies or retail banks .
24 In view of this recent move by the W.H.O. , the work of Martin Martin has a large contribution to make .
25 Any organisation which has a large capital base and a relatively secure home market , whether it be in the industrial , service or utility sector , can make a positive contribution by generating overseas earnings .
26 Like York , the old walled city centre attracts many tourists , and it has a large cattle market and a cathedral .
27 The configuration of the shore has a large bearing on tide heights and range , tending to increase in bays and funnel-shape inlets like the Bristol Channel and St Malo , near the Channel Islands , in France .
28 The territory has a large measure of self-government , with the Governor presiding over an Executive Council composed of the Chief Minister , the Attorney General and three other ministers drawn from the Legislative Council , which comprises nine elected members , the Speaker and the Attorney General .
29 For example , in the rattlesnake the upper end of the tooth near the jaw has a large inlet for venom ( the basal orifice ) , and a smaller outlet close to the tooth 's tip ( the distal orifice ) .
30 It has a large accumulation of books , manuscripts , maps and pictures .
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