Example sentences of "[verb] largely [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Kal yuga , through which we now are passing , the age when mind predominates , man has largely lost consciousness of his inner centre of focused attention , the eye centre , and remains scattered in the world displayed to his mind by the five senses . |
| 2 | How this system of allocation has been operated and controlled has long had a significant effect in moulding the social composition of the rural village , for it has largely influenced who lives where . |
| 3 | The term skin disinfectant is synonymous with antiseptic and has largely replaced it . |
| 4 | Since the second world war , public ownership has largely replaced the City 's family firms , and new technology has widened the scope of City trading . |
| 5 | In short , during the past four hundred years the lemon has become , in cooking , the condiment which has largely replaced the vinegar , the verjuice ( preserved juice of green grapes ) , the pomegranate juice , the bitter orange juice , the mustard and wine compounds which were the acidifiers poured so freely into the cooking pots of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe . |
| 6 | The visual image has largely replaced the written word as our principal means of communication ( R.W. Unwin ) |
| 7 | The dramatic collapse of work in steel and cars and shipbuilding , for example , has largely affected men because these industries were large employers of mainly men . |
| 8 | In addition , control by workers over those who run the state and economic machine has largely lapsed . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , if congress has largely surrendered the positive power to initiate legislation to the executive , it remains a formidable negative force . |
| 10 | In the past , regional policy has largely depended on attracting private-sector firms into areas of high unemployment through a range of subsidies . |
| 11 | Although some sex education programmes have been introduced into schools , the nature of these has largely depended on the attitudes of the local authority , the individual head teacher , and the teachers assigned to the subject . |
| 12 | It is a world that ought to have vanished , and has largely done so , yet it persists in certain tired imaginations . |
| 13 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 14 | Stimulus-response ( S-R ) psychology has largely gone out of fashion now , yet in its day it carried the field , and even now its influence is still felt . |
| 15 | Although the euphoria associated with automatic decision-making has largely gone , the more realistic concepts of decision-support systems and executive support systems have certainly not disappeared . |
| 16 | By 1986 , Hass-Klau was asking whether environmental traffic management exists in Britain and concluding that ‘ since the mid-1970s , Britain has largely stopped innovating in traffic restraint policies ’ . |
| 17 | The ground floor has largely survived beneath the rubble , including 95 per cent of the contents such as furniture , paintings , books and china , the trust says . |
| 18 | But although socialist or liberal-reformist doctrines have had an important influence in some cases — in the Cuban Revolution , in the Popular Unity Government in Chile , and in the Peronist movement in Argentina — it is a conservative nationalism , expressed through military regimes , which has largely prevailed . |
| 19 | The geographical patterning of the subsequent ‘ national ’ economic recovery has largely served to reinforce this dichotomy . |
| 20 | Since the success of ‘ A Fish Called Wanda ’ , he has largely kept out of the public eye . |
| 21 | Until fairly recently , tropical silviculture has largely relied on natural regeneration . |
| 22 | According to Sheila Sisulu of the South African Council of Churches , the DET 's strategy has largely involved shifting resources from place to place rather than substantially expanding the system . |
| 23 | Erm , in fact Ted Hughes I think has largely lived in the countryside so it is quite likely that his house in which he sets this poem is in the countryside . |
| 24 | Through the twin heritage of Christianity and the Renaissance , the ancient world has largely shaped the culture and civilisation of Europe , and its languages , literatures , history , art and archaeology provide a rich and complex field of study . |
| 25 | It has to be noted that gaol conditions are no longer newsworthy and the clamour for reform has largely faded . |
| 26 | Semi-finalist at her first attempt at the age of 14 in 1990 , Capriati has largely flattered to deceive since and has yet to reach a Grand Slam final although she did capture the Olympic gold last year . |
| 27 | This has largely led to a reduction in overall-activity , but the control of mosquitoes by means of insecticide retains its prominence . |
| 28 | It has irked the Northern selectors that the talent drain has largely led to London , the side that has dominated the Divisional Championship in recent years . |
| 29 | Since that time I think that there has been great progress towards reconciliation and this has largely flowed from common sense and from a better understanding of the facts . |
| 30 | Whatever the merits of these arguments , there can be little doubt that for much of its existence the LDDC has not sought out partnership arrangements with elected local bodies — it has pursued market-led strategies whose impact on local communities has proved far from advantageous ; it has largely ignored local planning procedures ; and there has been little public accountability of its Policies and spending . |