Example sentences of "of large [noun pl] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is wrong to extend such concepts to explain the wholesale replacement of large groups of animals by others . |
| 2 | The great weight of evidence is that the employment of large numbers of professionals in an organisation poses ‘ problems ’ for the application of the bureaucratic or hierarchical management model . |
| 3 | Tissue culture techniques provide excellent opportunities for cloning — the production of large numbers of organisms of identical genetic constitution — and for the rapid reproduction and multiplication of new strains resulting from genetic engineering . |
| 4 | They are much used by those on their way to shops , schools or work , especially in the summer months , but they do not meet the needs of large numbers of pedestrians in a variety of ways , such as their uneven or discontinuous walking surfaces , lack of lighting , limited destinations served and so forth . |
| 5 | The preaching of the existence of a provident god who would supply all needs , was no doubt generally of good intent , but such preaching has been taken far too literally , especially by uneducated peoples , and the outcome has been a reduced sense of personal responsibility permitting , among other things , the production of large numbers of children for whom the progenitors had not the slightest hope of providing . |
| 6 | Both of these are derived from the performance of large numbers of children on the same test . |
| 7 | The widely-reported deaths of large numbers of cetaceans in the Mediterranean [ see ED 57 ] is probably due to poisoning by heavy metals , exacerbated by industrial pollution , according to a series of post-mortems by marine scientists at various sites on the Mediterranean coastline . |
| 8 | It is usually recognised by the presence of large numbers of larvae at the same stage of development in animals withheld from infection for a period longer than that required to reach that particular larval stage . |
| 9 | Death of amoebae within the lower respiratory tract would result in the release of large numbers of bacteria at a temperature that favours their rapid multiplication . |
| 10 | The chief applications of tissue culture are given in Table 8.6 and range from the relatively simple production of large numbers of plants by cloning to the more sophisticated production of new species and useful chemicals , as well as facilitating genetic engineering which will be discussed in section 8.4.3 . |
| 11 | The role of large aggregations of individuals for appreciable periods is probably of central importance here . |