Example sentences of "large [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They travel in large concentrated groups to search for food , particularly when herding shoaling pelagic ( open sea ) fish . |
| 2 | On April 4 two large state-owned companies — PETROBRAS , the oil monopoly , and Companhia Vale de Rio Doce , a transportation company — were authorized by the Brazilian central bank to resume repayments to foreign banks . |
| 3 | Faced with this inexorable decline , the Labour Party from 1984 onwards had embarked upon a massive programme of deregulation which included ( i ) scrapping import licensing ; ( ii ) reducing or abolishing tariffs or export subsidies ; ( iii ) floating the currency ; ( iv ) deregulating the banking sector ; ( v ) reforming the tax system ; ( vi ) establishing an independent central bank ; and ( vii ) privatizing large state-owned companies including Air New Zealand , NZ Telecom , NZ Steel , the government-owned energy group , Petrocorp , and two banks . |
| 4 | He went to the far kitchen wall and took down a large hanging scales . |
| 5 | During these years a number of small and some large Allied raids were made against Norway , and the French Channel and Biscay coasts . |
| 6 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 7 | In the 1920s the owners of large private cellars did not , with the possible exception of vintage port , lay down wine for future consumption as they do now . |
| 8 | Technology is indifferent to ideology ; the same trends are visible in large private corporations in the US and in state enterprises in the USSR . |
| 9 | One school of thought has it that managers of large private corporations are more or less their own masters ( Berle and Means , 1932 ) . |
| 10 | The Government concedes that subsidies for loss-making services must be maintained , but support for a radical change in the way the railways are run and financed has come from several large private companies , including Richard Branson 's Virgin Group , which is drawing up plans to run trains on key InterCity routes . |
| 11 | Our source for this analysis was Crawfords ' City Connections , which covers large private companies ( turnover greater than £15m and profits of more than £500,000 ) and certain public sector organisations . |
| 12 | The statements suggest that annual reports of plcs and large private companies should include a statement about directors ' responsibilities , acknowledging the role directors ' play in the preparation of the financial statements , and their responsibilities for the decision on whether a going concern basis is appropriate , and for ensuring that adequate financial controls are in place . |
| 13 | Some large private companies are also quietly adjusting their pay structure to remove race and gender discrimination . |
| 14 | Subsistence agriculture , based on a feudal system of land tenure , gave way to large private estates owned by Muslim lords and worked by Christian tied labourers . |
| 15 | In the many instances of old warehouses , barns , etc. being converted to catering premises , even though external work may not be undertaken , planning permission is required owing to the change of use , and similarly with large private residences being converted into small country hotels . |
| 16 | He puts forward three key areas of non-local policy determination : policy formulation within the welfare state as a whole ; the involvement of large private firms in urban development and service provision ; and professionalism at both the local and the national level . |
| 17 | ( By the time this artificial advantage had evaporated , moreover , the supply industry , as we shall see , had moved to larger , more technically advanced sets , and few large private firms had sufficiently big demands to justify the ordering of sets of a competitive size . ) |
| 18 | The view taken was that in order to get the best allocation of investible resources between public and private industries , the discount rate used in the public sector should be similar to the return which private firms would consider acceptable on new investment … it seemed sensible to set a rate for public enterprises which corresponds broadly with that sought by large private firms of good standing engaged in low-risk business . |
| 19 | In this chapter we have discussed aspects of competition policy , the process through which governments seek to prevent large private firms from abusing their potential monopoly power . |
| 20 | Also , while large private grounds in towns may seem an anachronism , they often provide important ‘ green lungs ‘ , and their lofty trees and lawns provide an amenity to any passer-by . |
| 21 | Sometimes these disputes may be between large private organizations when companies argue about the terms of a commercial contract . |
| 22 | The ‘ turn of the rudder ’ will be the gradual economic liquidation of the large private enterprises and the economic subordination of the small producer to large scale industry . |
| 23 | How then to conceptualise works such as Polly Binns ' minimalist and rather beautiful series ‘ Overstrand to Side Strand ’ ( 1992 ) , white linen squares , slit , painted and stitched ; Beverley Clark 's untitled construction with its large wood-stained pieces of canvas threaded onto nylon , like the beads of a child 's necklace ; or Sally Freshwater 's snaking folds of linen held taut with rods , expanding across one wall of the Crafts Council gallery . |
| 24 | It could also be argued that Minton 's large figurative compositions exactly satisfied the Academy 's need to exemplify the continuing relevance of past traditions in modern terms . |
| 25 | The difference in population density is also explained by the large rural areas of the Auvergne being more thinly populated than those of Wales . |
| 26 | In addition , it considered some specifically Welsh issues , mainly the prevalence of two languages in school and community , but also the existence of large rural areas with sparse population , and the high respect widely felt for education and for teachers . |
| 27 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 28 | These latter examples may be more appropriate for those countries or regions with large rural populations or that do not have a well-developed system of local educational institutions comparable to the community colleges , technical institutes or the like that are found in Australia , Britain , Canada , Denmark , and the US . |
| 29 | ‘ Especially in countries where there are large rural populations still living under Third World conditions , the transistor is usually among the most prized of possessions . ’ |
| 30 | Old Dissent gained a foothold where the Church of England was weakest , especially in isolated communities scattered throughout those large rural parishes that stretched over the moors , the marshlands and old wood-pasture areas and also in certain types of towns . |