Example sentences of "[adv] large [noun pl] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uniformed or plain-clothes policemen would bring in large envelopes of documents for Mr. Middlemass , the Document Examiner ; specially prepared kits issued by the Laboratory for the collection of saliva , blood and semen stains ; unwieldy bags of stained and dirty bed linen and blankets ; the ubiquitous blunt instruments ; blood-stained knives carefully taped into their boxes . |
| 2 | The multidivisional enterprise : The tendency of the argument here is the following : if the exploitation of economies of scale on the part of capitalist enterprises primarily involved the development of ever larger units of production , in the technical sense , concentrating progressively larger numbers of workers into massive factories , then there could indeed be a conflict between the wish to retain the benefits of economies of scale on the one hand and the requirements of ‘ manageable ’ enterprise democracy on the other . |
| 3 | There was no ‘ minimum wage ’ and clubs tended to take on large numbers of hopefuls at low rates . |
| 4 | The disproportionately large numbers of recruits from Cheshire , and the martial reputation that the men from that county acquired , may have something to do with the successful recruiting drives organized by the Black Prince , who was Earl of Chester as well as Prince of Wales ; but it also , perhaps , reflected the problems of underemployment in a predominantly pastoral society . |
| 5 | Other test batteries result in still larger numbers of dimensions of intellectual variation . |
| 6 | There were also large colonies of traders of Greek , Jewish , Turkish and , especially , Ragusan origin . |
| 7 | Because of the rabbits and rodents , some of which do of course appear during the day , there are also large numbers of birds of prey . |
| 8 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |
| 9 | Although development of scheduled air services from Eindhoven has reduced the need for Philair to transport relatively large numbers of employees on short sectors , it is still able to achieve its objectives by saving time , giving a quality service , providing a flexibility of movement , and offering its customers a personal service not easily achieved on public transport . |
| 10 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 11 | I would hope over the next few years we actually do move towards increasing towards that but I think we will have some severe difficulties , particularly with the planning department where large numbers of members of the public do visit the area . |
| 12 | I mean I think I 'd like to comment on the way some of the discussion was going earlier , because although it 's true that it 's largely men who are seen as creating the problem , there are certainly large numbers of men in positions of authority in the university who are very concerned about it , and who have been led to re-examine their own behaviour , and who now comment on how uncomfortable and constrained they themselves feel . |
| 13 | There would certainly be a collapse of asset values and large regional unemployment and , as a result of those two factors , there would undoubtedly be a demand for very large transfers of resources from northern states to southern states . |
| 14 | However , it would have to be a de minimis figure and not one inclined to exclude very large numbers of producers to the small number . |
| 15 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |
| 16 | Observers of eating behaviour have noted that people can take in very large numbers of calories in the form of liquids without noticeably diminishing their appetite for food at all . |
| 17 | Very large numbers of synonyms for even a few home addresses can make it impractical , however . |