Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] largely [prep] " in BNC.

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1 During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came largely from individuals .
2 We ate largely in silence .
3 At this time they operated largely within the mercantilist premises of their opponents .
4 When MPs last night debated the related issue of compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong , they divided largely on party lines .
5 When MPs last night debated the related issue of compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong , they divided largely on party lines .
6 In fact it would be even more true to say that they conversed largely by the sign method , overcoming any difficulties which might have arisen over differences m mother tongues .
7 In using such sources , they relied largely on what has come to be known as the ‘ comparative method ’ .
8 She was silent a moment , thinking of Oreste and her journey to England and the future of her family and how it rested largely at the moment on Mr Landor 's £30 a year .
9 Central to this analysis is Benjamin 's ( 1975b , pp. 219–54 ) notion of ‘ aura ’ , which he understood largely in terms of the singularity , the uniqueness of a work of art .
10 It dealt largely with matters of church discipline , and with the problem of dismantling the arian Church in Burgundy .
11 How they hid it depended largely on their education .
12 Mrs Pember Reeves was ambivalent on the issue , commenting that it depended largely on whether the accommodation was above or below ground and on the absolute minimum that was allowed for food .
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