Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] largely [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those universities moved very largely into the public domain without sacrificing too much of their independence , and by improving the standard of their entry . |
| 2 | It must be borne in mind that this distribution , while , likely to be typical of the 1910 sample as a whole , does reflect that sample sage structure : the information comes from marriages logged very largely between 1910 and 1920 and obviously tells us more about the families that sent their daughter to the trade in the 1900s than about the earlier decades . |
| 3 | These early Acts stemmed very largely from sanitary powers , and did not provide any financial assistance beyond powers of borrowing money . |
| 4 | In reality , these developments came about largely through the influence of Charles 's Catholic wife , Henrietta Maria . |
| 5 | But now that it is in power , and dependent on an assembly made up largely of landowners , the government seems to find that option less attractive . |
| 6 | But while this has injected a more diverse element into the Lords , it is still an establishment made up largely of rich people . |
| 7 | On the other hand , there is also clearly a good case for the type of external validation operated by the CNAA , whereby course proposals are essentially considered by ‘ peer groups ’ made up largely of staff from institutions within public sector higher education , together with some members of the universities . |
| 8 | Such courts continued to function under the supervision of a volunteer council made up largely of lawyers , which could review their decisions . |
| 9 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 10 | First , a presentation founded so largely on the view that equates the development of industrial democracy to the growth of the process of consultation by management of unions intent on retaining their traditional role which opposes them to management , does not provide a credible basis for the qualitative change , envisaged by the Report , in that role : a change to one of shared responsibility for management . |
| 11 | From 1859 onwards there was a decline in Anglo-French relations brought about largely by Napoleon III 's Italian policy , which , after much manoeuvring , resulted in a war between the Italian Kingdom of Piedmont and the Austrian Empire . |
| 12 | However and wherever retirement counselling is undertaken , these wider implications of retirement , brought about largely by dominant social attitudes , can not be ignored . |
| 13 | But the expansion which took place throughout the 1980s did so largely without direct government help . |
| 14 | James did prove determined to promote the interests of Catholics , and he did so largely through recourse to the prerogative powers of dispensing with or suspending the penal statutes . |
| 15 | The world population of all five species is now fewer than 10,500 animals , with the rapid decline in numbers in the past 30 years put down largely to poaching . |
| 16 | With high land values and the lowest UK unemployment , almost 50 per cent of the very small holdings were what the survey classed as ‘ amenity farming ’ , in which land and buildings are acquired with ‘ a desirable residence and the agricultural activities carried out largely for pleasure ’ . |
| 17 | The English manner of waging war , that of the chevauchée , the raid carried out largely by mounted soldiers ( who were thus fully mobile ) through the enemy 's countryside , with the intention of pillaging enemy property , destroying crops , and thereby creating an air of insecurity , could not be allowed to continue too long unchallenged , since such an exercise undermined ( as it was intended to do ) the authority of the king of France , who was responsible for the defence of his people . |
| 18 | By the late thirteenth century armies had very largely to be paid for , the feudal element being both small and hedged about with inconvenient restrictions on how long and where the cavalry might serve . |
| 19 | Without a lemon to squeeze on to fried or grilled fish , no lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried pulses — the red lentils , the split peas — which in those days loomed so largely in our daily diet , no lemon juice to help out the stringy ewe-mutton and the ancient boiling fowls of the time , no lemon juice for pancakes , no peel to grate into cake mixtures and puddings , we felt frustrated every time we opened a cookery book or picked up a mixing bowl . |
| 20 | The most important issue on which doubts were raised was the role of the United States in the proposed League of Nations , set up largely through Wilson 's persistent efforts in Paris . |