Example sentences of "which have a large " in BNC.

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1 Cable which has a large reserve of strength is mostly used so that a weak-link device of some kind safeguards the structure on a fast launch in gusty conditions .
2 South Korea , which has a large and tough army , also has bad memories of its experience in contributing soldiers to America 's effort in Vietnam .
3 A tree without leaves has a smaller surface area as compared with a tree with leaves which has a large surface area .
4 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 .
5 In Birmingham , Stuart Tullah of Collins Son & Harvey , which has a large rental book says : ‘ People faced with taking another 12-month tenancy now are afraid prices may go up in that time . ’
6 It is composed of three distinct volcanic edifices , the youngest of which has a large caldera which constrains the surface geothermal activity .
7 Worse still , she was phoning from her home in Kilburn , which has a large Irish community .
8 All future courses will take place on the popular ex-Great Western design Collett 0–6–0 No. 3205 , built in 1948 , which has a large well laid out cab and easy-to-use controls .
9 Executive search is one of those products which has a large degree of elasticity .
10 Lin will première the work in San Diego , California , which has a large Chinese population , and if it is successful there he hopes to find a way to perform it in Taiwan .
11 At the same time , the UK is also the ‘ host country ’ to an unusually large stock of assets owned by foreign multinationals , ranking third behind Canada , which has a large presence of US companies , and the US itself ( Ietto-Gillies , 1987 , Table 3.1 ) .
12 This last would look altogether like a castle keep but for the fantasy of its roof , which has a large slate cone perched , candle-snuffer fashion , on top of an already pointed lower roof .
13 a popular serif typeface used in magazines and books for text setting which has a large x-height and an open appearance .
14 The Food Safety Act 1990 is one which has a large number of such defences built into it , as does the recent Environmental Protection Act 1990 .
15 ( ii ) The trees , at Withington , also show more branches ( each of which has a large calyx at the tip ) , " and the animals run around the inner roundel in an almost frenzied motion .
16 The Burton-on-Trent based company , which has a large estate in Wales and the border counties , pushed volumes ahead by 3pc in the face of a national decline of 2pc .
17 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 .
18 There are very few French employers in Scotland apart from tyre giant Michelin , which has a large factory in Dundee , Pernod Ricard which owns several distilleries and drilling rig builder , UIE Scotland , which is a subsidiary of Bouygues Offshore .
19 It was important to have transport , mobility , He reserved two rooms at the luxurious hotel which had a large reception hall and modern curving staircases leading to the first floor .
20 The provision of this form of care has its origins in the pre-war public hospitals , which had a large number of patients with chronic health care problems .
21 The bicycle was obviously shaking the old order to the roots , and with its customary irreverence the socialist Clarion ( 30 July 1898 ) — which had a large stake in the matter , because of the enormously popular Clarion Cycling Clubs — wondered ‘ how it is no one has written a cycling melodrama , with a hero and a heroine and a villain on wheels ’ .
22 Wycliffe was received in the lounge , which had a large picture-window looking out to sea .
23 Bristol , which had a large increase in students last year , like Oxford and Cambridge , did not seek this year to exceed its own previously announced planned expansion .
24 Clashes took place over three nights in the Paris suburb of Sartrouville , which had a large immigrant population , after an 18-year-old North African , Djemel Chitou , was shot dead on March 26 by a supermarket security guard , himself a North African .
25 The area most affected was Sabon Gari , which had a large Christian population , mainly Ibos from southern Nigeria .
26 Among the first countries to recognize Ukraine as an independent state were the former Soviet republics of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , other eastern European countries , Croatia , and Canada ( which had a large Ukrainian minority ) .
27 The four acute hospitals studied also varied in the extent to which they were dependent on business from their own district , from 20 per cent in a teaching hospital which had a large range of supraregional specialities and dealt with over 120 districts , to over 90 per cent in a rural district general hospital .
28 One exception to this parallelism is those tasks which have a large short-term memory component ( see Group 4 tests , above ) .
29 Dr Kristof Lis , Poland 's minister in charge of the Plenipotentiary for Changes in Ownership , is currently having to wrestle with the fact of real worker power — from the concept of actual ownership to the committees which have a large say in the running of industry .
30 So he favours ‘ stocks which have a large exposure to recovery in the UK , namely Bass and S & N ’ .
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