Example sentences of "a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later the same term was used to denote the geometrical figure that is formed when a smaller square is cut out of a larger square with two of its adjacent sides lying along two adjacent sides of the latter . |
| 2 | Every now and then the launch took a larger wave on her starboard bow and she would shy away like a frightened colt . |
| 3 | Glaucous has a larger head and neck and heavier bill , recalling Great Black-back , whereas the Iceland 's are notably smaller and slenderer . |
| 4 | Perhaps a pilot study for a larger development that was never built . |
| 5 | Sweden is a larger country than Norway with a compact Arctic region dominated by a mountain chain that runs along its western edge , near the border with Norway . |
| 6 | Some parishes with a larger problem maintained workhouses or poorhouses , ranging from relatively well-run institutions to vermin-ridden dumps for the poor and insane . |
| 7 | The effectiveness of economic advice is but part of a larger problem : the appropriateness of the government machine to the tasks which have been placed upon it . |
| 8 | If the hon. Gentleman sends the evidence , we will examine it to see what happened in that case , and whether it is evidence of a larger problem . |
| 9 | If we get it wrong in year two , it will be even more wrong in year three , because the distribution is n't going to alter dramatically in our favour , so if there is under-funding in ninety four , ninety five that we manage , it will present itself as a larger problem in ninety five , six , and an even larger problem in ninety s six , seven , so that needs to be borne in mind . |
| 10 | The larger number of claims and a larger problem out there is with the cumulative trauma . |
| 11 | The narrower the range of comparison , the surer we shall be that the stylistic features we are attributing to Jane Austen are peculiar to her style , rather than to the style of a larger category of writings " which includes hers . |
| 12 | Where objects are deliberately unique it may be that they are intended to signify some generic concept of uniqueness , such as in art ; the object is then both an individual form and an example of a larger category to which it must be related . |
| 13 | Fortunately the visibility was excellent , and so we could fly at 3,000 feet above the terrain to give us a larger cone of vision as well as options in the event of engine failure . |
| 14 | Meanwhile we 're impatient for a larger return on investment . |
| 15 | ‘ Certain scholars have reservations about the kind of exhibitions she did because they lack factual perspective ’ , says Harold Koda , ‘ but in terms of a larger concept of truth , she captured the truth of fashion ’ . |
| 16 | but from this precise description we are drawn into a larger concept : |
| 17 | Because of this the investigators subsequently carried out a larger trial ( in 86 babies ) , which did not confirm either the reduction in haemorrhage or the increase in mortality . |
| 18 | Before widespread changes in practice are made this finding needs confirmation in a larger trial with mortality and major respiratory and cerebral morbidity as the primary outcomes . |
| 19 | A larger trial in Crohn 's disease is being evaluated . |
| 20 | Physical sex is a larger factor in the life of the woman , married or unmarried , than in the life of the man … |
| 21 | Resource-based learning can last as little as ten minutes : a child 's scrutiny of a repeating film-loop which teaches him a concept or skill he will need for the next part of his programme ; a short programmed exercise that enables him to test his grasp of an idea or piece of knowledge before embarking on a larger exercise ; a work-card unit giving practise in loading a projector or using a subject catalogue . |
| 22 | We shall here use adjectival position to mean any construction which has the function of realizing some distinct pattern of intensional relations , and which meets the following criteria : ( a ) It contains an adjective as one of its elements ; ( b ) It is minimally extended for that adjective , i.e. there are no further elements dependent on the adjective ( since all such phrases will reduce in their structural effect to a single occurrence of adjective anyway ) ; ( c ) It is minimally complete for that adjective ; that is , the adjective achieves its structural effect within the construction , so that setting the whole pattern into a larger construction can not change the effective value of the adjective . |
| 23 | At a larger distance , none the less , a pattern of partial unity of purpose grows faintly visible , and the old romancers and young realists of post-war Britain by now look one in what they denied and defied , even if they remain opposed in style and in the positives of dogmatic faith . |
| 24 | The fleet will be shipped around the world to venues where the sailing will be just part of a larger event . |
| 25 | There was obviously a larger village of Buscot here , around the church and parsonage , for the present village lies some way off across the fields . |
| 26 | Clio is the roomiest car in its class , with a larger luggage space than any of its rivals . |
| 27 | Erm what would present problems in real life I think would be developments of a larger kind than that in which a new settlement er might be one strategic site if we had such a policy might be another . |
| 28 | It had been intended at Vatican I to complement the papal definitions with something much wider , but pressure from Franco-Prussian conflict combined , maybe , with a lack of Roman interest in a larger agenda , prevented anything further from being said . |
| 29 | First , the Bank of England has already returned to the gilt market as an issuer and the prospect over the next few years is one of a larger PSBR and gilt issuance . |
| 30 | Even quite small stands may support a pair of reed-buntings , while a larger reed-bed provides a home for the reed-warbler . |