Example sentences of "[vb past] a large part [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in a street , the street so wide and the houses so distant across the other side that it might not have been a street at all ; and the houses lay low with gaps between them , so that the sky filled a large part of the picture . |
| 2 | Today very little military demi-caractère style exists in Western ballet except in such American works as Balanchine 's Stars and Stripes , but it played a large part during the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | The stock editor generally concentrated on stock revision and supervision of withdrawals , but in some authorities he or she also played a large part in the selection of new books . |
| 4 | Pocklington beck , which played a large part in the 13th and 14th centuries , though no longer used for the running of mills or for carrot washing , is a favourite place for youngsters who paddle in it or catch tiddlers . |
| 5 | This captured a large part of the plaintiff 's market in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Forty hours of gun-battles in the Kurdish town of Sirnak from late Aug. 18 until the morning of Aug. 20 prompted a large part of the town 's 25,000 population to flee to neighbouring villages . |
| 7 | During another epoch , the polar ice-cap expanded and covered a large part of the northern hemisphere , and it was only when that receded about 12,000 years ago that what was left of the Thulean Province reappeared from beneath the ice as the island we now call Iceland . |