Example sentences of "[noun] with a large [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report in the Middle East Economic Digest of April 19 , citing a recent edition of a London Arabic language daily Asharq Alawsat , claimed that the Soviet Union would not fulfil promises made in early 1991 to provide Syria with a large consignment of weapons . |
| 2 | The study was confined to the North-East , but this had the advantage of providing the authors with a large number of Far Eastern companies , reputedly the highest concentration of Japanese firms in the country . |
| 3 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 4 | If a family held a small amount of land and was in a village with a large number of households , its strips could be so small and scattered that too much time was spent in travelling between strips . |
| 5 | Parents often arrive at a session with a large number of complaints and generalizations about their child 's behaviour . |
| 6 | Wolman ( 1987 ) establishes that a strong relationship existed in the 1970s between poorly-performing urban areas and areas with a large percentage of their workforce engaged in manufacturing . |
| 7 | It appears that the enemy has suffered a major defeat in Normandy with a large amount of casualties and loss of heavy equipment . |
| 8 | ‘ meticulous experiments have convinced me that this ratio ( 1:100 ) between the quantity of diluent and that of the medicine being dynamized is far too low to develop the medicinal substance properly and to a high degree with a large number of succussions unless force is used … |
| 9 | However , in a sediment with a large proportion of lithic clasts this may involve changing many times to a different magnification ( generally larger , to identify the whole clast ) . |
| 10 | The city has been in optimistic mood with a large volume of shares changing hands ; Wall Street also opened strongly , which in turn , encouraged the U K market . |
| 11 | For motors with a large number of phases the torque reduction at low speeds is less pronounced . |
| 12 | Note that motors with a large number of phases have an advantage here , since a step length is a small proportion of the rotor tooth pitch [ Eqn . |
| 13 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 14 | This may have caused the general tendency for films with a large amount of fixed information to be judged as distractors and hence the overall correlation with values of B. |
| 15 | Doing business with a large number of national markets therefore implies that within most of these markets , operations will be relatively small in scale , because the markets will be small . |
| 16 | Making comparisons of crude death rates across time or between populations is problematic as the rate is obviously influenced by the age composition of populations : a population with a large component of older people will illustrate a higher crude death rate than a population of the same size including a lot of younger people . |
| 17 | The tumult and excitement great , I dined , or rather supped , at the Carlton with a large party of the flower of our side , off oysters , Guinness and broiled bones , and got to bed at half past twelve . |
| 18 | Afterwards , when Billie had helped clear up and Adam had finished the list of instructions for Lily , they settled down in the living room with a large jug of coffee . |
| 19 | He rushed home with his hot food , mixed a lemon and honey with a large dash of whisky and proceeded to open his parcel . |
| 20 | Second , customers decide their preferences with a large pinch of subjectivity . |
| 21 | It is struck with a rigid stick with a large head of felt . |
| 22 | You 've got to balance nutrition with a large amount of food which will keep them not hungry . |
| 23 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 24 | Local doctors were said to be sceptical because the water suppliers dosed the water with a large quantity of lime to prevent soluble forms of aluminium being formed as had happened at Camelford . |
| 25 | Second , when red-hot magma comes into contact with a large volume of sea water , the water is converted instantly into steam , and an explosion results . |
| 26 | Personnel staff are able to conduct ‘ instant ’ interviews and applicants are able to make immediate contact with a large number of employers . |
| 27 | It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for . |
| 28 | It is difficult to manufacture a small permanent.magnet rotor with a large number of poles and consequently stepping motors of this type are restricted to step lengths in the range 30–90 degrees . |
| 29 | You will recall that the background to the decision was previous arrangements whereby closures of certain departments had taken place on days during the festive season to avoid the opening and heating of buildings for one or two days in a week with a large number of staff members taking annual leave on these days . |
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