Example sentences of "[verb] largely on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final result of the debate , in which Cripps was attacked largely on personal grounds , was the confirmation of his expulsion by 2,100,000 votes to 402,000 . |
| 2 | The 2% drop in audit and business advisory services is blamed largely on a combination of the recession , fierce competition and ‘ severe downward pressure ’ on fees , while the knock-on effect of clients ' postponing discretionary spending was a 5% drop in management consultancy fee income . |
| 3 | The defeat of the Labour Party for the second time in 1983 had been blamed largely on the media campaign which had glorified the Falklands , hammered Foot , and unleashed a campaign of unprecedented vitriol against Livingstone 's GLC and the ‘ Loony Left ’ . |
| 4 | The first trial under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 was held in Chelmsford in 1566 , when Agnes Waterhouse was hanged largely on the evidence of a small child . |
| 5 | Mutigny 's considerably smaller hectarage is located largely on the upper slopes of Avenay , while a few of its vineyards grow on slopes high above Mareuil . |
| 6 | The inconsistency of demanding frankness and openness from the African while practising a form of government depending largely on influence wielded behind closed doors seems not to have troubled the British ; they assumed that it was precisely their own qualities of straightforwardness and transparent honesty which would effect the required transformation in the African character . |
| 7 | The effectiveness usually lasts for some weeks , but is variable , depending largely on the amount of new growth being produced , and therefore the rate at which the toxic content is being diluted , and the speed of living — called the metabolic rate — which affects the rate at which the plant is able to break down and divest itself of what after all is a ‘ foreign body ’ . |
| 8 | In this and the next section we consider general ideas and illustrate them with various flows ( depending largely on the best illustrations available ) . |
| 9 | Drawing largely on the Marshall Berman/Perry Anderson debate , and thereby making of Modernism the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity , itself conceived as a response to capitalist modernisation , Callinicos seems to want to claim in essence that both the former are partial in respect of the fact of this last . |
| 10 | The purpose of the present chapter is to investigate in more detail the nature of Muscovite colonial policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , drawing largely on the researches of a range of Soviet scholars , but particularly those of N.I . |
| 11 | It is sufficient to sketch in the broad outlines of the New Right critique of the interventionist state , and more specifically , the welfare state ( drawing largely on Harris 1987 ; Clarke et al. |
| 12 | In varying degrees these had rich Jacobean and baroque interiors in contrast to the simple interiors in contrast to the simple interiors of the 1820s and 1830s which had depended largely on rich marble Louis chimney-pieces and high quality papers . |
| 13 | At the time when he became a professor , his reputation probably depended largely on his studies of the capillary circulation and of the blood cells concerned with defence against bacterial invasion . |
| 14 | Other exposures such as the Swindon affair and the irregular payment to Graham Roberts have depended largely on the Press or dissident club officials . |
| 15 | The following three years saw a complex set of political manoeuvres , centred largely on the control of various cities of Aquitaine . |
| 16 | It might even mean that the personnel records and salaries systems could be cost justified largely on the basis of savings in the recruitment area . |
| 17 | He gave the impression that the agents were to a large extent out of DK 's strict control and that the agents were policed largely on the basis of responding to complaints and taking remedial action where appropriate or possible . |
| 18 | In Moabit there had already been some traffic management in the past , but this had relied largely on the use of one-way streets . |
| 19 | Merrell Down Pharmaceuticals , have relied largely on the testimony of expert witnesses , some of whom have reached conclusions by analogy rather than direct experiment . |
| 20 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 21 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |
| 22 | When MPs last night debated the related issue of compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong , they divided largely on party lines . |
| 23 | When MPs last night debated the related issue of compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong , they divided largely on party lines . |
| 24 | Living largely on the ground , it no longer needed a tail . |
| 25 | In his influential book The Quality of Education in Developing Countries , C. E. Beeby advances a ‘ hypothesis of the stages ’ in which he argues that teachers ' competence , flexibility and ability to innovate , depend largely on their level of education and training . |
| 26 | The Teams can assist groups developing and implementing new ideas which will benefit the area , but depend largely on the initiative and drive of local people . |
| 27 | Nocturnal spiders , on the other hand , depend largely on an extremely delicate sense of touch to find their prey . |
| 28 | Attitudes towards the foreskin depend largely on civilisation and culture . |
| 29 | Schools depend largely on local authority documents for the existence and content of their own policies . |
| 30 | School budgets are set by formula and depend largely on the number of pupils . |