Example sentences of "to have a large [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the organisation as a whole continued to have a large measure of credibility . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the United Kingdom is fortunate to have a large proportion of world-beating , world-class companies ? |
| 3 | Having said that , I 've always known that if I want to express myself I have to have a large vocabulary on the guitar . |
| 4 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 5 | I would expect that the day he was diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia he was not advised to have a large meal followed by a cigar and a large amount of alcohol . |
| 6 | An alternative is to have dentist and patient and make a joke of it , with the dental instruments being a hammer and a pair of pliers and the patient made up to have a large abscess . |
| 7 | The perception of high infant mortality itself was a symptom of poverty and this fuelled a continued desire to have a large family as an insurance against the death of existing children . |
| 8 | We intend again this year to have a large Family Christmas Card to enable you to send greetings to other members of the fellowship . |
| 9 | My parents had hoped to have a large family , but when I was born Mamma needed a Caesarean section . |
| 10 | If graduated tests are to have a large measurement component then it seems that , as things stand at present , a significant number of girls will be disadvantaged . |
| 11 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |
| 12 | It helps a great deal to have a large number of clear , separate concepts , ideas that can quickly and easily be applied to the sometimes confusing variety of animal actions we observe when we sit down to watch other species . |
| 13 | Hard topics are supposed to have a large number of facts and a small amount of theory while soft topics have a large amount of theory and few facts . |
| 14 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 15 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 16 | In order to study the behaviour of a word it is necessary to have a large number of occurrences available which necessitates that modern corpora contain many millions of words ( Sinclair , 1991 ) . |
| 17 | The first requirement is to have a large number of potential projects from which to select and then to select those which will produce the best returns on the resources available . |
| 18 | The first requirement is to have a large number of potential projects from which to select and then to select those which will produce the best returns on the resources available . |
| 19 | If you are going to have a large stock of components you must store them sensibly . |
| 20 | Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do . |
| 21 | ‘ We are therefore going to have a large recovery problem which is going to be an expensive business , ’ Mr Thomas said . |
| 22 | The writer professed to be church-going , happily married , to have a large house and be infatuated with young children . |
| 23 | On the one hand , it is an advantage to have a large volume of business with a minimum risk of non-payment . |
| 24 | But Woodhouse will continue to have a large demand for businesswear , which is why Kenzo is always high on Guy Tolson 's list for buying priorities . |
| 25 | May I place it on record that I know that my hon. Friend is doing his best to ensure that south Dorset continues to have a large amount of Ministry of Defence employment ? |
| 26 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 27 | The company claims to have a larger presence abroad than any other British retailer , trading in thirteen different languages . |
| 28 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 29 | In general , balance between front and back-benches will always be contentious — each element wants to have a larger role — but by and large the broadcasters seem to have struck it reasonably well . |