Example sentences of "[vb pp] into a large [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contents are then sucked into a large tank on a trailer , which is taken to a local refuse treatment works , where it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned . |
| 2 | She was shown into a large office with a hard-backed chair facing the interview desk . |
| 3 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 4 | Thus the probability of violence is high where : the industry is fragmented into a large number of firms ; workers of the strike-hit firm are well-paid , but easily replaced ( notably under conditions of high unemployment ) ; union leaders condone the use of violence ; the strike issues relate to matters of ‘ union security ’ rather than pay ; and institutions like the police and media implicitly condone violence . |
| 5 | In 1911 he had acquired , with Lloyd George and the attorney-general , Sir Rufus Isaacs ( later first Marquess of Reading , q.v. ) , a personal shareholding in the American Marconi Company , soon after the British Marconi Company had entered into a large contract with the British government . |
| 6 | Finite element analysis requires the subject — in this case the club head — to be translated into a large number of computational cells or elements . |
| 7 | Before sunset ( and particularly if a shower is expected ) each row can be raked into a large number of small cocks , or rowed up into narrow swathes . |
| 8 | They consisted of an elaborate sequence of libations poured into a large vessel on an altar between two double-axes mounted on painted pyramidal bases ; grave-goods were dedicated to the sheepskin-draped statue of a god in front of another altar ; offerings of food and drink were dedicated at a third altar set up in front of a sacred tree shrine ; music was played and an ox and two goats were sacrificed . |
| 9 | Suppose the economy is not one large , unified entity but is instead divided into a large number of islands . |