Example sentences of "a large [noun sg] of [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thieves stole a large quantity of cigarettes from the garage in Dean Road , Ferryhill , last night . |
| 2 | Visitors attending the Festival of Underwater Sport held at Crystal Palace in London were met on their arrival by a large contingent of members from the Lewisham branch who had arranged a bucket collection and an indoor souvenir stall . |
| 3 | A large contingent of police from Yorkshire will mingle with the 1,200 Leeds supporters to try to ensure their trouble-free re-entry into Europe . |
| 4 | There was a large contingent of buyers from Eire who took 32 rams in total . |
| 5 | This observation was the starting point for a study of a large sample of gold-weights from three museums . |
| 6 | The methodology employed is to estimate the sensitivity of household decisions about working to changes in their economic circumstances , and to use these models to simulate the effects of tax and benefit changes on a large sample of households from the Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 7 | There is an effective way of removing a large proportion of phosphates from waste water . |
| 8 | My constituency includes a large community of Sikhs from the Punjab in India . |
| 9 | The Tropical House was designed to exhibit a pair of American Alligators and a large collection of plants from the warmer regions of the world . |
| 10 | Kirkman remains , however , a major force in the market , the owner of a large collection of pictures from all periods of Freud 's career , including masterpieces such as ‘ Large Interior W11 ( After Watteau ) ’ ( 1981–83 ) and ‘ The painter 's mother ’ ( 1982–84 ) , as well as a portfolio of his etchings . |
| 11 | Given the wide scope of the charge to CGT , a large number of exemptions from this tax bite are granted to make the system fair and workable , A company may be able to avoid CGT liability even though it has made gains of a capital nature , by means of various reliefs and allowances . |
| 12 | A large number of families from Grangetown have received legal aid to explore the possibility of suing British Steel and ICI . |
| 13 | The Mayor , while not quantifying his optimism added , ‘ that there was no doubt they would get a large number of members from Reading and Maidenhead ’ . |
| 14 | Wyld ( 1936 ) , for example , cites a large number of spellings from around 1200 onwards in which the letter h is ‘ wrongly ’ omitted or inserted , but concludes that there is no reliable evidence for ‘ the present day vulgarism ’ before the eighteenth century ( p. 296 ) . |
| 15 | It also has an ‘ enable tracer ’ which cuts down the time needed to run off a large number of copies from one disc . |
| 16 | Group I introns reside in a large number of genomes from various sources such as phages T4 and SPO1 ( 47 , 48 , 49 ) , cyanobacteria ( 50 , 51 ) , plastids ( 52 , 53 ) , mitochondria and nuclei ( Tetrahymena ( 54 ) ; Physarum ( 55 ) ) . |
| 17 | The company later withdrew this from the high street stores and from its production schedule , following a large number of complaints from Christian individuals and groups . |
| 18 | The catchment area was a growing , upper-middle-class suburb of Johannesburg which attracted a large number of refugees from Hitler 's Europe . |
| 19 | The list also includes a large number of campaigners from third world countries who have worked on local issues . |
| 20 | The only time I considered the title of a book was when I found a large number of books from the same library together . |
| 21 | It might be h d that the place for this would be in the Computer Studies Curriculum but to do this would preclude a large number of pupils from acquiring basic handling skills . |
| 22 | But since interviews can be carried out from a single base , it is a very economical and efficient way of contacting a large number of speakers from a wide geographical and social sample . |
| 23 | Further data on these geomagnetic reversals were collected and by the mid-1960s a chronology of reversals had been established through the radiometric dating of a large number of samples from all over the world . |
| 24 | Then a large number of results from research on arousal and memory are briefly reviewed . |
| 25 | Clark ( 1990 ) has recently referred to the ‘ myth ’ of the Anglo-Norman scribe and has collected a large number of comments from early in the century up until very recently from the work of distinguished scholars , in which attested forms are typically said to be ‘ Anglo-Norman ’ and therefore rejected . |
| 26 | She lifted a large saucepan of eggs from on top of the hot range and gave one to each person . |
| 27 | A large crowd of spectators from the corner pub helped drag him out of the mud . |