Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] larger " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of this loss and the prospect of a significantly larger one in 1993 , we could see no possibility , on commercial grounds alone , of the company continuing . |
| 2 | In such cases there may be a need to take account of a somewhat larger number of markedly different national contexts in order to make possible a more precise isolation of explanatory variables ( Sorge , 1976 ) . |
| 3 | The definition of papal infallibility ( even in its rather restrained terms ) and of papal supremacy over the Church by the Council of 1870 merely formalized the pinnacle of a far larger system , theoretical and institutional , of monarchy . |
| 4 | Shortages of labour in the immediate post-war period meant that this pattern of female industrial employment was not reversed overall , although it was in traditional basic industries , and any discussion of production post-1945 has to take account of a far larger North Shields female employed proletariat than had existed pre-War . |
| 5 | Rapid changes in the European Community itself — progress towards the Single Market , creation of the Social Charter , greater economic integration , the prospect of a far larger membership — all offer enormous opportunities , if only we will seize them . |
| 6 | The submarine work is actually part of a much larger contract that we have with Israel to build three Corvettes for them , worth $300m ( £187m ) , at the Ingalls yards in Mississippi . |
| 7 | They therefore accepted views of early kinship which represented it as a system where women were superior to men , where sex was unrestricted , and where the private and isolation of the group formed by parents and children was replaced by the commonality of a much larger undivided group . |
| 8 | He is convinced we have to adopt entirely new value systems , change our philosophical orientation and spiritual thinking ; stop behaving as though the earth is here for mankind 's personal convenience and learn to regard ourselves as one small part of a much larger whole . |
| 9 | The Tudor chimney-stacks and beautiful brickwork are the vestiges of a much larger house — the ancient seat of the Willoughbys . |
| 10 | ‘ We feel we must be part of a much larger group , ’ said Mr Duckworth . |
| 11 | The specimen is 10 cm long , and is a fragment of a much larger colony . |
| 12 | The total length of the frond is 12 cm , but it was originally part of a much larger plant |
| 13 | But the battle over the sea dumping of nuclear waste , dramatic as it became , represented only a small fraction of a much larger problem . |
| 14 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 15 | Over the next few years , the coalition government worked on the framing of a federal law that laid the foundations of a much larger system of higher education — and opened the door to far more state control over the universities . |
| 16 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 17 | The squadron of cavalry was but a small contingent of a much larger military force despatched to Champagne by the Monis government : Épernay was to be protected at all costs and between twenty and forty thousand cavalry , dragoons and infantry poured into the town . |
| 18 | Yet , despite an increase of spending on health in the UK from 3¼ per cent of national income in 1948 to over 6 per cent ( of a much larger national income ) forty years later , it is alleged that the NHS is underfunded and periodically in a state of near collapse . |
| 19 | Possibly this is a more extensive version of the system applicable to the Sancton-Baston pottery , reflecting branches of a much larger family or clan , spread over eastern England . |
| 20 | This area of pumiceous tuffs is only a small part of a much larger blanket of Pliocene ignimbrites covering more than 20 000 square kilometres , which originated from a catastrophic eruptive phase in the central sections of what is now the Kenya rift . |
| 21 | In the well planned enclosure , a special section of a much larger building , the heaters are mounted at a safe height on rafters or purlins to provide complete safety for shepherds and sheep alike . |
| 22 | To resolve this issue , a further investigation was set up , involving the processing of a much larger corpus and the testing of a greater number of domains . |
| 23 | It must be remembered , however , that what are described as ‘ agencies ’ are sections ( albeit independent sections ) of a much larger authority . |
| 24 | Now , in the middle of the biggest case she had ever worked on , she had problems of a much larger scale and Kate was aware that her life would never be the same again . |
| 25 | Don Juan Pond , 122 m above sea level in Wright Valley and now only a few centimetres deep , is assumed to be the remnant of a much larger freshwater lake of at least 10 m depth . |
| 26 | We should consider also , that if they do exist then they may be but a part of a much larger pattern which stretches not only access the tiny and remote areas of south-western France but across western Europe and possibly other parts of the world . |
| 27 | This positive momentum has accelerated over the last two or three years , though the Campaign is the first to recognise that it is only a modest part of a much larger movement . |
| 28 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 29 | Surviving written texts thus reflect ( directly or indirectly ) the concerns of a much larger proportion of the population than we have evidence for in the period before the ninth century . |
| 30 | Blake could now see that they were in a large white room , part of a much larger edifice . |