Example sentences of "large [noun] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one could select those areas where there appears to be the largest proportion of sites which seem to have been affected , they are in Hampshire , Hertfordshire and north Kent , possibly indicating that they suffered the greatest disturbance . |
| 2 | Across a range of questions , the pattern was consistent : the first set contained the largest proportion of students who became less honest ; next came the second set ; honourably in the rear were the astronomers , with the smallest proportion of students who became less honest . |
| 3 | Jim Davidson sent six bottles of champagne with a card saying , ‘ What a way to get into the papers , ’ and one evening I received the largest basket of poinsettias I 've ever seen , totally stunning , with a card saying , ‘ Thinking of you — lots of love , Elton . ’ |
| 4 | This last category is by far the largest group of Americans who find suitable housing beyond their grasp . |
| 5 | There is , however , a large variety of killings which lie above that line but below the line demarcating murder : a killing in which D knew there was a risk of death , but was held not to have intended death or grievous bodily harm , would fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a high sentence ; whereas a killing in which D pushed a person during an argument in the street and the person fell backwards , cracking his head on the kerb and dying from a brain haemorrhage , might also fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a low sentence . |
| 6 | The bills were n't sequentially numbered or marked in any of the large variety of ways I could imagine . |
| 7 | " It was unknown in the past , and in the larger houses in town it was unheard of , but in the country it was not unknown . |
| 8 | Such counter-examples have led some philosophers attracted to the logico-linguistic conception to take the audacious course which involves , in part , simply ignoring the very large part of consciousness which does not fall under the conception . |
| 9 | We already know that a large majority of women who do paid work at home feel themselves tied by child-care responsibilities . |
| 10 | The large majority of employees whose tax is deducted at source under PAYE and are not sent an income tax return will be unaffected by the changes . |
| 11 | Miners , for example , maintained large families , 3.6 children in 1911 , despite the rapid general reduction in birthrate , and in the early twentieth century they were the only large category of workers whose families averaged over 3 . |
| 12 | Separate from these groups was the large mass of youth whose clothes were chain store versions of traditional styles . |
| 13 | Large groups of hotels which are linked by computer usually operate their own central reservation system . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thirdly , there were some large groups of Americans who were unable to join the consumer boom . |
| 16 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 17 | Yes , we 're very very pleased actually , I mean we were pleased with the fact that we were able to contribute to it because one of the nice things about working , for us , working for the Jordanian water authority , was that the Jordanians themselves have put so much commitment into this er situation , they 're , so much of their own resources and energy has gone into looking after , you know , very large groups of people who really are of no benefit to the country whatsoever . |
| 18 | When I was n't with the animals I spent hours playing with my favourite toy , a large piece of wood which I pretended was our horse , Dicks . |
| 19 | Yew ( Taxus baccata ) commonly occurs in the ash woods , and on the National Nature Reserve at Kingley Vale there are large stands of yew which support good populations of common species , particularly Great Tit , Coal Tit , Chaffinch and thrushes . |
| 20 | Frankly , I often struggle to control large gangs of hooligans who spill out of the pubs looking for blood . |
| 21 | Elinor read the cards from two identical large vases of lilies which took up all the space on the dressing table . |
| 22 | If you are going to have a large stock of components you must store them sensibly . |
| 23 | Bangor 's 80-year-old Carnegie Library , situated in Hamilton Road , is in constant need of repair , with a large stock of books which can not be put on public display because of the limited floor space . |
| 24 | It is an important test , for impotence will not only be a poor recommendation of Community cohesion ; it could make it all the more difficult to stem the tide of bloody anarchy that could so easily engulf large tracts of Europe which we recently rejoiced to see set free . |
| 25 | On the western side , the impressive remains of the much later temple of Zeus Thanatos stand on foundation courses of large blocks of stone which look like Minoan masonry : certainly many of them have the distinctive Minoan ‘ mason 's marks ’ , the branch , the star and the trident , which supports this view . |
| 26 | It consisted of two large blocks of buildings which have now been converted into flats . |
| 27 | D. The upland farmers concentrate on keeping livestock , mainly on large areas of land which the farmers have left as rough grazing . |
| 28 | Erm and what it says on the blurb on the cover is that the power stations of England and Wales are surrounded by larg large areas of land which are often remote , uncultivated and undisturbed by man . |
| 29 | And in Britain between nineteen eighty eight and nineteen ninety one there has been a doubling of racist attacks in large areas of London it is now commonplace for such attacks to take place . |
| 30 | Large areas of science we take for granted were unknown , and even unsuspected . |