Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [prep] large " in BNC.

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1 But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large .
2 In the South Lowlands district , published works include a map and memoir of the Langholm area and new maps and descriptive papers concerning large parts of Ayrshire , the Douglas , Muirkirk and Sanquhar coalfields .
3 Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement .
4 Pigs are sandwiched between rhinos and hippos in the encyclopedia , and kick off the even-toed ungulates — ‘ The most spectacular and diverse array of large , land-dwelling mammals alive today . ’
5 Minimal and Conceptual art at large
6 Others feared the control of biotechnology and genetic engineering by large companies .
7 A similar point can be made with respect to voters who , despite what some economists might like to think , will have views beyond the fate of major economic indicators and will be concerned about the conduct of foreign and domestic policy at large .
8 TransPennine offers direct , fast and frequent services between large towns and cities on both sides of the Pennines , and is complemented by the InterCity network for journeys to other parts of Britain .
9 The company is a specialist in database publishing , highly illustrated technical documentation , military specification manuals and automatic pagination of large generically coded documents .
10 Both were the direct results of the application of steam to transport , since for the first time in history this made possible regular and safe journeys for large numbers of people and luggage over any kind of terrain and water .
11 The term , the ‘ Great Mother ’ , is often associated with primitive and prehistoric carvings of large , shapeless women .
12 For this showing two popular tunes of that year and narration by Michael Baguley bring back to life an era of wonderful charabancs , crammed with cheerful dark-eyed young ladies in cloche hats and young men in large caps .
13 All too often banqueting and other forms of large scale catering are associated with disappointing , dried out and lacklustre food .
14 CIP systems are fixed systems commonly used in food factories , dairies , breweries and other operations with large runs of pipework and/or tanks to clean .
15 Inglis made calculations about the effect of hatchways and other openings in large structures like ships .
16 Individualised portraits , however , had been produced on coins and other media in large numbers from about 300 BC to AD350. portraits had been very infrequent earlier in the classical world , since the ideals of the Greek city-state precluded the glorification of an individual .
17 Existing centre-periphery relations ‘ broke up as mature corporations began to decentralize units of standardized manual production to dispersed localities also within the advanced nations , while concentrating managerial and financial functions within large metropolitan areas , ( Albertsen 1988 : 347 ) .
18 Economic forecasts are widely used both by policy-makers and by the business and financial community at large .
19 As more and more people drifted away from the land and sought work in large urban areas , during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , so Alford found itself left behind — a hollow yet tranquilly pulsating image of its former glory .
20 In more remote areas such as the Carpathian Forest , however , the picture is brighter , with deer and wild boar in large numbers , together with an estimated 8,000 bears and 1,500 lynx .
21 This might take a year or so for planks an inch or two thick and seven years for large oak ship 's timbers .
22 It can plausibly be taken to indicate the original existence and subsequent disappearance of large , and perhaps very large , quantities of similar material .
23 He ( or she ) needs to realize that considerable analysis needs to be conducted in order to form sound judgements of cash flows and underlying uncertainties for large projects , and that too ready a move into discounted cash flow ( DCF ) calculations may give the impression of sophisticated analysis which disguises the inadequacy of the underlying assumptions .
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