Example sentences of "[adj] larger [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that this larger responsibility , having more local responsibility combined in one small church is an important role . |
| 2 | Although he describes religion as the " incarnation " of a culture he does not fully elucidate the point — at this level of abstraction , elucidation is perhaps impossible — but goes on to discuss the relation of politics and education to this larger whole . |
| 3 | To bring the Crown out of the poverty and debt which had marked most of the reign of Henry VI , both Edward IV and Richard III used professional receivers , auditors , and surveyors to increase the revenue from Crown lands ; and much of this larger income was paid , neither to the Exchequer nor to the Crown 's creditors , but to the Chamber of the royal Household , where it was at the disposal of the King . |
| 4 | This larger scheme was not planned and implemented till well over 50 years later . |
| 5 | It is this larger system , considered as a whole , which is functionally integrated and which was able to reproduce itself within a framework of legitimacy despite the absence on military service of many of the potential genitors of the children . |
| 6 | We shall now see how this larger system failed to prune successfully . |
| 7 | This larger capacity machine is aimed at professional workshops ; though if you frequently use wide boards the extra capacity will be handy . |
| 8 | The roadshow 's organiser must always keep this larger audience in mind . |
| 9 | It is this larger amount that is taken into account for tax purposes . |
| 10 | It is not at all clear what extra resources and provision are currently being planned or provided for this larger group , nor whether the size of that group is broadly agreed , nor whether local authorities and schools are identifying in any way the children involved . |
| 11 | This larger group would ‘ have the ability to turn the whole of Asia into a zone of durable peace and universal security ’ . |
| 12 | This larger group would then choose an observer group of given countries to perform a peace-keeping role in Afghanistan , which would involve defusing the insurgency and supervising general elections . |
| 13 | Commonly we consider a disease to be the symptoms that we experience when ill but if we are to take the susceptibility into account then we need a word to include it in this larger view of disease . |
| 14 | So it 's part of this larger view of psychoanalysis that was emerging in the thirties . |
| 15 | On this larger canvas uncertainties abound , and there is scope for contributions from changes in the Australian way of life that were not primarily adopted for health reasons . |
| 16 | Ahmed seems to assume that this larger number has arisen by duplication from the n = 1 -1 8 complex . |
| 17 | This larger area is a circle and we are at the centre of it . |
| 18 | As a first step towards writing this larger program , we now turn our attention to genes . |
| 19 | Each of the famuli , the skilled elite of this larger manor , had a specific job , be it swineherd , shepherd or goose keeper . |
| 20 | The brilliant pebbles concept was intended to replace the original SDI proposal of 300 larger orbiting stations , housing about 10 interceptors each and using a complex system of lasers and mirrors . |
| 21 | The Scottish larger herd and flock size must be paramount . |
| 22 | Another larger issue could well have been the major redirection of Bernician military might and political power needed to secure an advance north of the Forth . |
| 23 | Dependent conditionals have often not been distinguished by philosophers from one or another larger category of " if " statements . |
| 24 | The latter , built of brick and glass in the functional and unelaborate manner of the early 1970s , were originally planned to occupy adjacent premises but the numbers of infant children were such that another larger building was needed which now stands a few hundred , wind-swept , yards away . |
| 25 | So Moore 's method can hardly allow us to attach any intrinsic value to education at all ; its value must be that of a means to other things or perhaps as an element in some larger whole of value . |
| 26 | But the assembling of separate tales to form some larger whole is a distinctive feature of medieval literature with a history of its own , apart from the history of what can properly be called compilationes . |
| 27 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 28 | Pairs of square brackets indicate that the enclosed formula is to be taken as an E , with round brackets for properties ; where it may be necessary to indicate that a sequence of E P is a clause within some larger construction rather than a simple entity-identifying expression , we shall use scroll brackets as our notational device . |
| 29 | Anna and her mother lived in a little detached house which looked as though it had been sliced off from some larger building . |
| 30 | the schizophrenic will clearly have a far more intense experience of any given present of the world than we do , since our own present is always part of some larger set of projects which force us selectively to focus our perceptions . |