Example sentences of "[vb past] largely [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 2 | They cover mainly the period since 1950 in order to allow for the full return to peacetime economic conditions which occurred largely during the reconstruction period after 1945 . |
| 3 | The biggest increases in growth rate between the two periods , however , occurred largely in counties situated at a greater distance from London , namely ( in rank order ) Northamptonshire , Isle of Wight , Lincolnshire , Dyfed , Gloucestershire , Devon , Dorset and Hereford & Worcester . |
| 4 | Many of the great trees of the Carboniferous were lycopods , the trunks of which contributed largely to the formation of coal . |
| 5 | Young contributed largely to Annals of Agriculture . |
| 6 | The original Company depot was built in Copse Road , and used largely as a store for surplus cars . |
| 7 | They form a vital component of our defences against chemical attack from trace compounds found largely in our diet . |
| 8 | The changes stemmed largely from the generation gap . |
| 9 | The fortunes of the Trelawney family , which was to include the famed bishop , and the Bullers , to include Sir Redvers Buller of Boer War fame , stemmed largely from the downfall of the Winslade family , long holders of the manor of Tregarrick . |
| 10 | This move stemmed largely from the perceived success of the police in Britain and India . |
| 11 | This stemmed largely from a lack of political analysis and clarity in relation to nationalism and feminism on the part of Southern feminists . |
| 12 | It is interesting in this context to look at the large ( 2 MW ) windmill built largely by students at a college complex in Tvind , Denmark . |
| 13 | Many of these people lived largely without the agent of money , and survived by bartering what excess produce they had . |
| 14 | In later life she suffered much from ill health , and lived largely in retirement . |
| 15 | Mintzberg , who studied five chief executives in the USA and reviewed previous research , gives the best account of the importance of informal information and argues that : the manager 's advantage lies , not in the documented information that is widely available , and which takes time to process , but in the current non-documented information transmitted largely by word of mouth … managers seem to indicate strong preference for current information , much of which is necessarily unsubstantiated ( gossip ) , and for information on events rather than trends … |
| 16 | The following three years saw a complex set of political manoeuvres , centred largely on the control of various cities of Aquitaine . |
| 17 | Consequently , until 1935 the labour movement is of more interest when studied in its extra-parliamentary role , which centred largely around the issue of unemployment . |
| 18 | These deals , made largely in secret , ignore the fact that pulp prices are plummeting and US legislation requires newspapers to be printed on recycled paper . |
| 19 | The German states in the years before the formation of the Reich sold largely to one another , and this brought pressure to bear on ‘ unfair ’ Jewish trade . |
| 20 | At this time they operated largely within the mercantilist premises of their opponents . |
| 21 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 22 | The evening passed largely without incident , with no wars breaking out in the terraces . |
| 23 | The merger of Mills and Boon and the Harlequin imprint acts as a paradigm for the sequences of company mergers and takeovers that took place in the sixties and seventies in publishing in Britain and America , a period in which the ownership structures of publishing underwent a profound shift away from specialist producers and distributors of books , towards groups of publishing houses owned largely by corporate organizations whose primary interests were not in publishing . |
| 24 | When MPs last night debated the related issue of compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong , they divided largely on party lines . |
| 25 | When MPs last night debated the related issue of compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong , they divided largely on party lines . |
| 26 | These questions arose largely as a consequence of EC membership , which necessitated a phased withdrawal of ‘ protection ’ from the Spanish home market . |
| 27 | In the wake of the election in Haringey , an allegedly independent campaign , the Parents ' Rights Group , was set up and led largely by working-class women . |
| 28 | But such a decline was illusory — caused largely by the unusual circumstances of the 1931 General Election . |
| 29 | The initial drive for a single European market came largely from the Thatcher government following a major policy speech at Chatham House in March 1984 by Sir Geoffrey Howe , the then Foreign Secretary . |
| 30 | It was they who controlled the way in which performers , who came largely from working-class backgrounds , developed and packaged popular forms into acceptable acts . |