Example sentences of "large part [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Work plays a large part as the centrepiece of the daily regime and both its opportunities and its shortcomings were made clear to me .
2 A large part of the fun I had testing this guitar through an amplifier came from not knowing what to expect .
3 Although the area is best known for its superb Ordovician basic pillow lavas , the rock sequence also spans a large part of the history of the Lower Palaeozoic Welsh Basin .
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 Seventy percent of the expenditure is on staff who you do not employ and can not dismiss , a large part of the income , or all the income is through the fees that are set na nationally by the government .
6 As we saw , a large part of the Stress Syndrome , once it is in full swing , arises from sustained physical tension .
7 Lini also suggested that the churches should take over the running of a large part of the school system in the interests both of efficiency and economy .
8 Ordering and receipt of materials for the school library is not normally a large part of the school librarian 's work but it can prove time-consuming and one advantage of having a microcomputerbased acquisitions package is that it will help to free the school librarian for other more curriculum-related work and will allow easy access to books and other items on order using a program which can be searched in various ways .
9 In pursuing economic reform , ecological considerations would be a basic criterion ; the government would create a competitive environment , liberalize prices and foreign trade , privatize a large part of the state sector and develop the private economy , while seeking to limit inflation , unemployment and foreign debt .
10 Oil palms have been planted on a large part of the land behind the river and growers have been granted a draft permit to develop plantations along the river banks , the monkeys ' habitat , by the local land authority .
11 Often taking up a large part of the composition , a sky establishes mood and atmosphere
12 As it is , a large part of the caring that is carried out for older people , both those living at home and those living with relatives , is carried out by women , mostly daughters and daughters-in-law .
13 The pursuit and creation of stars , for example , occupies a large part of the story that A Scott Berg has to tell : Goldwyn was constantly trying to sign up the human properties who would ensure the success of his pictures .
14 Yes , I think that that 's a very large part of the story .
15 In whatever fashion the contrast is formulated ( we might say , for example , that the two revolutions — political and industrial — which had inspired the new political science began to move in different directions , towards greater equality in one case , away from it in the other ) it embodies a large part of the substance of political enquiry and of political doctrines from the nineteenth century to the present time .
16 A large part of the contrast results from this .
17 Belgium is making preparations to celebrate the centenary of René Magritte , who was born in 1898 , amid considerable regret that a large part of the artist 's private collection was lost to the nation following the death of his widow .
18 Social services take up a large part of the council budget .
19 The multielement regional geochemical dataset , which covers a large part of the country , pointed to several areas of potential mineralisation , hitherto unknown , including three areas in Scotland in which particulate gold is associated with pathfinder elements , and gold is associated with arsenic in altered metasediments .
20 Records of assessed need will form a large part of the monitoring process but this wide-ranging report makes it clear that there are several other factors to watch .
21 During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin .
22 One fertility clinic serving a large part of the midwest of the Netherlands .
23 On this evidence it seems possible that a large part of the conflict that arose in the administration of the NIRC was the result of a belief of its president that , in industrial conflicts , one side can be discovered , after proper examination by judges , to be ‘ right ’ and the other side ‘ wrong ’ .
24 A large part of the building was in flames .
25 While colleagues came and went , he retained this position until his retirement in 1263/4 , thus overseeing the building of the eastern chapels , chancel , transepts , chapter house , and a large part of the choir , virtually the whole of King Henry 's achievement .
26 The large part of the responsibility falls back on the parents — or , in some cases , on grandparents .
27 Many industrialists concede that a large part of the responsibility for British companies ' lame performance must lie with management .
28 Tracing out the efficiency and equity consequences of different tax tools forms a large part of the purpose of this text .
29 Although Bukharin was primarily concerned with a war situation , in which there was not only a direct diversion of a large part of the GNP to the production of means of destruction , but also a direct destruction of the forces of production , his formulation can also be applied to ‘ peace time ’ capitalism .
30 The time taken by each set of words has to be very exactly calculated , and a large part of the skill of a voice-over expert lies in the ability to fit a set of words into a precise length of time while still getting the required clarity and intonation .
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