Example sentences of "a [adv] large " in BNC.
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| 1 | The annual subscription is going up to £8 for the year 1991 , which may seem like a rather large increase to some of us . |
| 2 | Rodrigo met with a cold and scornful reception from the counts , who believed they had no need of a renegade knight with a rather large force of his own . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the housewife , engaged in her working day , hears a knock on the door and finds a complete stranger there with a clip-board to which is attached a rather large sheet ( or sheets ) of paper covered with duplicated sentences and ominous boxes . |
| 4 | We can not really discuss problem solving without an example , so I am going to discuss a rather large problem , namely Rubik 's cube . |
| 5 | That was called Lancro Chemicals , a rather large firm in Eccles , near Manchester . |
| 6 | So if you intend to keep this fish you should be thinking about where you are going to put a rather large tank in the long term . |
| 7 | What Hesketh was ( besides being the heir to a grocery fortune , with a mother of enormous talent and charm and a rather large estate near Towcester ) was simply ebullient and fun . |
| 8 | Found a rather large mouse in his stew . |
| 9 | An apoplectic CLINT BOON immediately got on his case and the ill-informed impresario was sent away with a rather large flea in his ear . |
| 10 | We hear that guitarist GRAHAM made a rather large faux-pas only the week before . |
| 11 | Diana struck her as ‘ a rather large girl who wore terrifying Laura Ashley maternity dresses ’ . |
| 12 | The existence in Scots of many phonolexical sets of the same general type gives rise on a rather large scale to similar methodological problems in sociolinguistic work in Scotland . |
| 13 | This has been a rather large digression from the main concerns of this chapter , but it is important to bear in mind this important change , which appears likely to occur very soon . |
| 14 | Johnson and Boswell sauntered through the castle , as they could today , where many of the artefacts are preserved in a museum ; they looked at Rorie More 's drinking-horn — Boswell 's description is clearer than Johnson 's — ‘ a rather large cow 's horn , with the mouth of it ornamented with silver curiously carved ’ . |
| 15 | Although John felt that we were pulling a rather large practical joke his sense of humour did prove to be a lot better than most we had encountered recently . |
| 16 | Seymour took delivery of the first Vancouver 28 , christened Islander , on 16 May , 1986 , a date he finds difficult to forget because it was his birthday and on that day he wrote a rather large cheque . |
| 17 | Some of it 's quite funny , Keifer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips are good but the film as a whole seems to wander round making a rather large amount of noise and not doing anything all that interesting . |
| 18 | The only dabbling duck of the region with sexes alike and no obvious speculum ; like a rather large longer-necked greyish duck Teal ( p. 55 ) , with a dark mark through the eye and contrasting pale lower face ; head shaggy rather than crested ; tail white Drake has a weak nasal squeak , duck a double whistle . |
| 19 | A rather large plain brown lark , with an often inconspicuous crest , and white outer feathers in fairly long tail . |
| 20 | It did not escape my notice , however , that you were accompanied last night by a rather large , rather muddy man who , I gathered from hints dropped from various quarters , had been your escort that evening . |
| 21 | But Miss Close 's father was a man of substance , and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum . |
| 22 | I was once handed a business-card by a rather large , florid trumpet-player which read ‘ Nam Myo Renga Kyo ’ or something similarly memorable . |
| 23 | Two black leather chesterfields faced each other across a low glass-topped table bearing a cylindrical flower vase of highly polished stainless steel surrounded by three slimmer and smaller cylinders of the same material , which , empty , could have been a rather large cruet set , but the true function of which was illustrated by the pure white candles , long and pointed , which emerged from their upper openings . |
| 24 | However , recent research by the same investigator suggests a rather large adverse effect on the demand for unskilled labour in developed countries . |
| 25 | Interviewed by reporters after the talks Bessmertnykh says that the peace process had " reached a rather large plateau " , but adds that the possibilities for a conference " are growing " . |
| 26 | Some of it 's quite funny , Keifer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips are good but the film as a whole seems to wander round making a rather large amount of noise and not doing anything all that interesting . |
| 27 | We have n't paid for it and therefore er , we er , you see a rather large item for provisions and minorities , that includes the ninety nine million consideration that er , went out of the door in July , as well , of course , as the substantial provisions that Thames made , in their own accounts for their property leases and for er , potential losses on the disposal of Reeves their West Coast , U S production company . |
| 28 | While you may gain from a long overdue cheque , you 'll lose out again when a rather large bill presents itself for payment . |
| 29 | Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation . |
| 30 | We do n't actually look at that — a radio telescope is a rather superb radio set with a rather large ariel . |