Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] large " in BNC.
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| 31 | I am personally seduced by the prospect of the Crown and the defence being able to agree a sentence prior to a plea , especially in the case of large complex fraud trials . |
| 32 | oriented computers , as is the case for large and medium.sized computers . |
| 33 | Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ? |
| 34 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 35 | Small homeotherms , like many.in the rodent family , do not have the advantage of large size nor of metabolic generation of heat . |
| 36 | Hence the advantage of large estates and plantations for economic development had lain not so much in their technical superiority , higher productivity , economies of scale , etc. , as in their unusual capacity to generate agricultural surpluses for the market . |
| 37 | The past 10 years has seen an explosion in our knowledge of the molecular biology of cancer , and nowhere has this been as exciting as in the field of large bowel cancer . |
| 38 | The thoroughness of its marketing approach placed it so far ahead of its short-leet rivals — Scottish Amicable and Britannia Life — that the judges had no doubts about awarding it the top accolade in the category for Large Service companies . |
| 39 | Robert Wiseman Dairies , the milk processor and distributor which is widely recognised by its distinctive black and white corporate identity , beat rival Yarrow Shipbuilders to take first prize in the category for large manufacturing companies . |
| 40 | It can be argued that controls by Central Government are desirable to ensure that a uniform minimum standard of efficiency is obtained where the taxpayer at large is contributing through the national Exchequer to local services . |
| 41 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 42 | As a method it appears not to be favoured for the removal of large concentrations of highly odorous compounds , which is necessary in the animal by-product industry for example . |
| 43 | Reports on Nov. 12 said that US officials had confirmed that the final percentage of Warsaw Pact weapons cuts would have been higher had it not been for the removal of large numbers of Soviet tanks and other heavy arms across the Ural Mountains to areas where they were not covered by the Treaty provisions . |
| 44 | The Countryside Commission were to sign a deal with the Duke of Devonshire in September to grant him Capital Transfer Tax exemption ( estimated to be worth £12,000,000 ) in turn for large parts of this 130km 2 in the Dales becoming a public heritage centre under the Heritage Estate arrangement introduced by Leeds MP Denis Healey in 1975 to prevent the breakup of large estates ( the MP himself having just become President of the National Trust 's Yorkshire Moors & Dales Appeal ) . |
| 45 | There is an increase in the number of dwellings through careful alteration of old buildings such as the Burlington stable , or the division of large houses . |
| 46 | The Coopers and Lybrand report is believed to detail a highly complex fraud involving a string of bogus subcontractors and front companies to maintain the fiction of large contracts in Pakistan , China and Africa . |
| 47 | Slimly-built Gilbey resigned from Holbein in February last year when the firm was reported to have been hit by the recession with large debts . |
| 48 | While it is well known that machair may extend as much as 2 km inland in South Uist , less well known is the altitude to which blown shell sand exerts an ecological influence : the dunes at Luskentyre Banks ( NG 0699 ) are up to 35 m high , while the presence of large amounts of wind-blown shell fragments is evident from the presence of charophytes in lochs on Tairaval ( NB 1135 ) ( Angus , unpublished NCC report ) and at Mangersta ( NB 0131 ) ( Biagi et al 1985 ) , both sites being more than 50 m above sea level . |
| 49 | Large urban areas afford greater opportunities for criminal activity with the presence of large department stores , warehouses , financial institutions , large car parks and so on . |
| 50 | For over a century the presence of large urban markets , which need much fresh milk , has encouraged the farmers to keep dairy cows . |
| 51 | However , the excitement is not simply that we have produced data consistent with the presence of large animals . |
| 52 | The presence of large numbers of bilingual and biliterate children in the community should be seen as an enormous resource which ought to become more , not less , important to the British economy in the next few years . |
| 53 | One of the phenomena of his campaign was the presence of large groups of women who would scream and faint whenever he came anywhere near them . |
| 54 | The best training in these disciplines took the form of war games called tournaments , particularly since these were splendid social occasions , enlivened by the presence of large numbers of ladies , musicians and merchants bringing wares from all over the world . |
| 55 | It was fortunate that he was able to swim , although he wondered for a moment about the presence of large predators in the water . |
| 56 | Firstly , the amount of DMS required to achieve a suitable extent of methylation is a function of the concentration of DNA and protein present and may have to be substantially increased when probing complexes formed in the presence of large excesses of competitor DNA or protein . |
| 57 | This binding was reflected in the DNaseI footprinting experiments only by a very faint footprint , even in the presence of large amounts of F9 nuclear proteins . |
| 58 | In the apparent absence of identifiable buildings , market-places can only be inferred from the presence of large open areas near the centres of towns , which could have served for periodic markets and fairs . |
| 59 | To Third World governments , the presence of large numbers of people begging on the steps of bank buildings or roasting nuts outside five star hotels was an insult to the progressiveness of their new skyscraper cities . |
| 60 | Is not one of the most serious threats to stability and peace in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union the presence of large minorities within the new states that do not necessarily recognise those states ? |