Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upright chairs were placed around the walls of the drawing room a large distance from one another . |
| 2 | She was unimpressed by both her grandfather 's reputation and his work : she had removed from her bedroom wall a large still-life of gladioli and a small representation of a baby 's head and stacked them carelessly on the landing in order to make room for a poster of Humphrey Bogart . |
| 3 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 4 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 5 | Such a change could also bring into the development plan eligibility net a large number of small farms in the French LFAs which hitherto could not qualify because their income levels were too low . |
| 6 | In art history a large part of electronic data processing takes the form of cataloguing works of art , and only a small proportion of research concerns pattern recognition or digitization of images ; in musicology it has only recently become possible to study scores directly input to the computer without the mediation of alphanumeric code . |
| 7 | Since the earliest days of stepping motor development a large number of designs have appeared , but it was soon realised that if the motor is to produce a significant torque from a reasonable volume then both the stationary and rotating components must have large numbers of iron teeth , which must be able to carry a substantial magnetic flux . |
| 8 | He took out of his waistcoat pocket a large watch which he had bought years before from a cheap-Jack at a fair . |
| 9 | If the stator and rotor teeth of one phase are fully aligned the flux path has a low reluctance ; for a given phase current a large flux links the windings , so the phase inductance is at its maximum value . |
| 10 | On the west lawn a large motor mower progressed slowly across the sward shaving off the last half-millimetre of grass before perfection . |
| 11 | In a parliamentary party democracy a large part of the electoral contest is the campaign : the candidates confront each other and attempt to persuade the individual members of the electorate to cast votes in their favour . |