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

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1 The former freight line which the walkway now follows was opened by the Caledonian Railway in August 1903 , linking Newhaven and Seafield in a large loop , via Restalrig Goods and Mineral Station which was on the west side of Restalrig Road .
2 They were in a large wardrobe .
3 Very often the most appropriate person to receive the samples is not a full-time member of staff and even if they are , packages of this nature are very easily lost in a large newspaper building .
4 Thus the folded , Keller-type crystallization results in a large reduction in the stiffness of thermoplastics of the polyethylene type .
5 Nevertheless , for softer tones and individual colours an electronic instrument can be most effective , particularly in a large building with good resonance .
6 I 'm serving as a curate in a large south London parish , St Sylvester 's Betterhouse . ’
7 VXL is also currently supplying terminals for use in a large CMC Ltd project to computerise the Indian Railways .
8 Bremer 's box of coins is ( ineffectually ) hidden in a large hole in the planking which supports the pallet , and this contains 84 GCs , 115 SSs , and 132 BPs .
9 His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong !
10 She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework .
11 Serve the spirits in a large goblet , topped with soda .
12 Despite the relatively large range of experimental exothermicities , enthalpy and entropy work in a compensating manner to give free energies for single strand helix formation that are generally close to zero at 300 K. Free energy costs per rotor in double stranded DNA and RNA are consistent with these limiting values ; large stacking exothermicities result in a large cost in free energy for restricting a rotation that , in the upper limit ( 5.4 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for G-C on C-G stacking ) , bears comparison with the values reported by Page & Jencks [ 20 ] for isomerisation reactions in small molecules involving severe restrictions , and at the lower limits ( 1.9 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for A-U on A-U stacking ) with entropy changes in the melting of organic crystals [ 6 ] that are held together by weak intermolecular interactions .
13 ‘ We have always been a very tired family , ’ Finch said loftily to Henry , both aged twenty-eight , Finch lying back in a large bed with his cello on his ex-girl friend 's pillow and Henry standing up by the gas fire .
14 On the contrary , she had slept remarkably well , in a large bed over the sheets of which the grudging Mrs Pigdon had passed a warming-pan before Theda slipped between them .
15 Menzel ( 1973 ) has shown that non-speaking chimpanzees can convey the location of food to one another in a large field enclosure ; Wrangham notes that individual awareness of food resources in the natural environment is acute ; but how much information transfer occurs in the wild remains unknown .
16 Willie found himself standing in a large field .
17 In a large field he did not have the clearest of runs as he challenged as a result of which he finished fast but too late having to settle for fourth place to the Ebor winner Quick Ransom .
18 Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine .
19 But closer to , in a large field enclosed by hedges , 2,750 white-fronted geese grazed .
20 There in a large field was the ghost of Alexander , with his huge army .
21 He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff .
22 The walls were lined with another fine matting woven in a large diamond design of red and green .
23 The U.S. delegate was ‘ gratified ’ that his country 's proposals ‘ have been accepted in a large measure by the Soviet Union . ’
24 At the year end in 1927 , a surplus of £281 was welcomed ‘ with gratification ’ , and attributed in a large measure to the Secretary , Lance Henly , who had introduced some innovations including a Bankers Order for subscriptions .
25 The credibility of alternatives depends in a large measure on three factors : a new perspective on disruption and disaffection ; support for teachers ; a re-alignment of current resources .
26 The lichen is gathered from rocks late in the summer , dried in the sun , then it is placed with the wool in alternating layers in a large pot .
27 Control mint by planting it in a large pot with drainage holes .
28 The men ate in a large tent outside the perimeter of the fence .
29 The show takes place in a large tent that seats 100 to 150 people .
30 She also suggested the unit should house in a large slide-out waste bin .
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