Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [vb pp] large " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FDIC was already weak from helping to bail out a large number of savings and loan institutions ( the so-called " thrifts " ) , some of which had lost large sums through misguided speculation or outright corruption [ see p. 36843 ; 37412 ] . |
| 2 | Some issues which had bulked large in previous generations now faded into the background . |
| 3 | Juries were sworn to declare the bounds of the forests ; they based their returns in the main on the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , which had put large areas out of the forest , and had many times been confirmed . |
| 4 | They have , none the less , been failures which have affected large numbers of people , and this is the only standard of importance which , in the long run , the historian can discover within the confines of his own subject . |
| 5 | The voices of rural families have seldom been heard in effective protest , and least of all in socialist states such as Tanzania and Mozambique , each of which have compelled large chunks of their rural population to live in communal villages against their will . |
| 6 | It has been suggested , too , that pollution by nutrient is responsible for the outbreak of crown of thorns starfish , which have devastated large areas of Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( see overleaf ) . |
| 7 | The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth . |