Example sentences of "a large number [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a large number of cases the egg would develop quite normally into a swimming tadpole and then an adult toad . |
| 2 | In a large number of cases the cover will be restricted to ‘ third party ’ only which is still within the requirements of section 145 above , at ( B ) 7 . |
| 3 | In a large number of cases the licence is issued to a firm , i.e. a limited company , then the company secretary is liable for the misuse of the trade plate on behalf of the company . |
| 4 | But it is evident that publishers , to stay in business , need to bring out a large number of titles every year . |
| 5 | A large number of firms the Joint Monitoring Unit visited last year are failing to meet one or more of its criteria for good audit procedures , according to the first annual review of audit regulation . |
| 6 | As we have seen , in a large number of colonies the authorities had been involved in publishing newspapers , Using both the colonial and local languages , they had tried to put over the official point of view , often in an attempt to forestall or counter alternative interpretations and opinions . |
| 7 | On a large number of matches the extra few fish that this may put in their net will not make any difference between winning or losing , but it may affect the deficit or margin by which they win or lose . |
| 8 | Since there is a large number of nerves the number of possible combinations and sequences of stimuli is enormous so it is possible for a system like that , in principle , to produce a very large number of possible reactions . |
| 9 | The move from ‘ arranged marriage ’ to ‘ marriage based on free choice ’ , as described in a Zhongguo Qingnian article ( 1988 , 5 : 27 ) was to be welcomed in many ways because a large number of graduates every year were wrongly placed . |
| 10 | For motors with a large number of phases the torque reduction at low speeds is less pronounced . |
| 11 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 12 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |