Example sentences of "[vb pp] largely [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crime was committed largely by Sinhalese adult men of respectable caste . |
| 2 | The US State Department had on Dec. 7 provided the UN commission investigating war crimes in Bosnia with documented information on atrocities committed largely by Serbs against Moslems in Bosnia . |
| 3 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 4 | THE EXCITING new astronomical knowledge we have gained over the past decade has come largely from satellites . |
| 5 | Although the original inspiration for this latest ‘ anti-fashion ’ movement has come largely from London street style ( and not its designers ) , the mood is being nurtured and developed in Paris and northern Europe . |
| 6 | The report adds that the question of " burden sharing " is crucial , as past accumulations of greenhouse gases have come largely from the industrialised world while future growth is likely to come increasingly from the developing nations . |
| 7 | The hearing occupied the justices on 27 and 28 January 1992 , the second day being occupied largely with a consideration of the mother 's application for a contact order . |
| 8 | In Leicestershire , the communities at Wigston and Ulston were largely free , whereas Foston , only 2 or 3 miles from Wigston , and Galby were occupied largely by servile tenants ( 83 , pp.53–4 ) . |
| 9 | The final result of the debate , in which Cripps was attacked largely on personal grounds , was the confirmation of his expulsion by 2,100,000 votes to 402,000 . |
| 10 | Targeted largely to VARs , systems integrators and OEMs for engineering environments and building image management systems for technical documents , ANA Tech 's new flagship , the large-format Eagle 3640 features 400DPI and interpolated 800 DPI resolution in a production-volume pinch roller scanner priced cost effectively at $25,000 . |
| 11 | All the while , the self-regulatory framework , dominated largely by the extra legal rules of the City Panel on Take-overs and Mergers and the Council of the Securities Industry ( CSI ) , was generally in not much better shape and made reform unlikely . |
| 12 | It is thus important to use language which reflects a real change of attitude to people who for so long have been unwilling recipients of services designed largely for society 's comfort and not theirs . |
| 13 | The National Party 's economic strategy , designed largely by Finance Minister Ruth Richardson , planned to continue Labour 's tight budgetary and monetary controls , while also undertaking further privatization and deregulation . |
| 14 | These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War . |
| 15 | So far , the debate about economic policy has been confined largely to technocrats and foreign advisers lodged in expensive hotels where one night costs around the average worker 's monthly wage . |
| 16 | The discussion will be confined largely to general principles of treatment which should be applicable in most hospital settings , because a comprehensive description of all aspects of treatment is beyond the scope of this book . |
| 17 | The highest award that could be given in peacetime at that time , the Albert Medal , was confined largely to members of the armed forces . |
| 18 | In the media foreign incursions were confined largely to cinema films and TV entertainment series . |
| 19 | A considerable research tradition was built up , and yet : " this tradition has been confined largely to studies of the comparative effectiveness of conventional procedures and selected types of so-called visual or audiovisual media in attaining the same objectives . " |
| 20 | In the perpetual ‘ Dunkirk of the spirit ’ of the immediate postwar period , ‘ dressiness was confined largely to homosexuals . |
| 21 | The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province . |
| 22 | Previous research related to memory for driving situations has been confined largely to exceptional situations ( e.g. actual accidents ) or memory for specific items ( e.g. road signs ) . |
| 23 | The major innovation — reaping , harvesting and mowing machines — were confined largely to the United States , where labour was short and fields were large . |
| 24 | The team also concluded that severe pollution was confined largely to 250 miles of the Saudi coastline south of Kuwait , that most of the oil in the spills had been digested by microbes , and that sea-bed levels of cancer-causing chemicals produced by burning oil were no higher than those found in estuaries in the United States or Britain . |
| 25 | But the adverse reaction was confined largely to the bigger companies , with the more widely-based FT-250 and FT-350 indexes showing smaller falls . |
| 26 | The interior , which presents the most striking Sicilian example in Romanesque church building , is decorated largely by mosaic pictures on walls , apse vault , capitals and columns . |
| 27 | The 2% drop in audit and business advisory services is blamed largely on a combination of the recession , fierce competition and ‘ severe downward pressure ’ on fees , while the knock-on effect of clients ' postponing discretionary spending was a 5% drop in management consultancy fee income . |
| 28 | The defeat of the Labour Party for the second time in 1983 had been blamed largely on the media campaign which had glorified the Falklands , hammered Foot , and unleashed a campaign of unprecedented vitriol against Livingstone 's GLC and the ‘ Loony Left ’ . |
| 29 | The house was seriously damaged by fire in 1879 but rebuilt largely to the original design . |
| 30 | The first trial under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 was held in Chelmsford in 1566 , when Agnes Waterhouse was hanged largely on the evidence of a small child . |