Example sentences of "a large [noun sg] of [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trudging back one evening , having been out all day and having had no luck , Charles spotted a large heap of rocks on the hillside above them , and asked what it was . |
| 2 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 3 | Graduates in the Social Sciences are well equipped to enter a large variety of occupations on leaving the University . |
| 4 | Litherland Bed Factory has a large range of beds on offer . |
| 5 | John Coon , DG 's UK marketing manager , says Technology will be better able to cope with support , and also has a large stock of peripherals on hand . |
| 6 | That is because a large number of cases on public nuisance arise out of some misuse of the highway ( inherently unlawful ) and due to the growth of statutory offences touching such matters as health and environment . |
| 7 | Not only Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 and Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 , but a large number of cases on section 1(1) , have furnished the material for animated and often penetrating academic discussion . |
| 8 | Personally , I do not support that concept , but the fact is that it has given rise to a large number of settlements on the west bank and even in the Gaza strip . |
| 9 | The relationship between the two concepts of range and amount is perhaps more complex than one might expect , for some local cases get sustained coverage in local newspapers but not get a mention in he nationals , while , on the other hand , some events get a mention over a large number of newspapers on one particular day but never get featured again . |
| 10 | Both my classes , the one on semantics and the one on pragmatics , have had a large number of students on them , which is gratifying in suggesting their popularity , but I shall pay the penalty when I have to mark all their papers . |
| 11 | It may be used for printing or processing information on a large number of records on the file ( where there is a high hit rate ) , but is inappropriate where the required hit rate in a run is low ( say , less than 6% ) . |
| 12 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 13 | In his view , it is fallacious to say that Unix costs less per number of users than mainframes because no-one has ever put a large number of users on Unix boxes . |
| 14 | North-eastern England and the Midlands contain most of the exposed coalfields in England , and there is always a large number of enquiries on matters relating to coal . |
| 15 | As you will see from the table of flowers available from florists ( see pp. 32–3 ) , there is a large number of possibilities on sale at your local florist . |
| 16 | Gross provides a large number of examples on the subject of men , women and marriage . |
| 17 | However , asking people to express attitudes was a relatively straightforward way of producing a large number of indicators on almost any subject that was of interest . |
| 18 | The chapter by Henri Giller moves into the politically sensitive field of juvenile offending in which research is only one of a large number of influences on policy , many of them conflicting . |
| 19 | In the early 1980s an estimated 228,000 Jordanian nationals worked in the Gulf and it must be assumed that East Bank Palestinians , with a large number of dependants on the East Bank , are a majority of these . |
| 20 | In the middle of the room there was a table , with a large plate of tarts on it . |
| 21 | MI5 maintains a large registry of files on individuals and organisations it considers of ‘ interest ’ . |