Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be largely " in BNC.
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| 1 | This weakness has been largely du , they suggest , to the fact that readability research has been based on an impoverished psychology of reading . |
| 2 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |
| 3 | And although this is conjecture , I feel it should be mentioned , if only because the primal mother-child relationship so highly emphasised in post-Freudian psychoanalytic literature has been largely ignored by those who have written about anorexia nervosa . |
| 4 | This research aims , first , to explain why the general pattern of income has been largely resistant to attempts at change through legislation , government policy and interest-group pressure ; secondly , to review the many kinds of research on income distribution ; thirdly , to identify criteria for , and means of , improvement . |
| 5 | Peter , having been dismissed because his work as a traffic clerk has been largely supplanted by use of a computer program for traffic Mows , vehicle scheduling and so on is eligible for a redundancy payment . |
| 6 | A few works , such as Jesus the Magician and The Gnostic Gospels , have been widely reviewed , discussed and distributed , but their readership has been largely confined to people with a particular interest in their subject matter . |
| 7 | For women whose self-esteem has been largely derived from being the centre of the home , there are a set of problems and issues to be resolved when they are required to take their place at the side of the family stage . |
| 8 | Environmental and engineering geology In a project to investigate the engineering properties of poorly understood tropical red soils , fieldwork in Kenya and Indonesia has been largely completed , and additional samples have been obtained from Fiji and Dominica . |
| 9 | As with the German scheme , the reaction of industry has been largely hostile . |
| 10 | Medical therapy of diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis has been largely empirical and there have been no adequate controlled studies . |
| 11 | So far this chapter has been largely relevant to social work both within the community and in the residential area . |
| 12 | The distinction between agreements under hand and covenants under seal has been largely obliterated . |
| 13 | The United Nations has been largely ineffectual when faced with a clash of interests between major powers , or even in dealing with more localized conflicts such as that between Israel and the Arab states , where great power interests are also involved . |
| 14 | Historically general practice has been largely independent of the rest of the health service , but this independence is now restricting its influence over the remodelling of the health service into a purchaser and provider system . |
| 15 | The Orb live are largely two blokes behind rafts of state-of-the-art equipment and stage projections featuring moonshots , landscapes and disjointed historical footage . |
| 16 | Up to the 1930s the bulk of quantitative social research had been largely demographic in character . |
| 17 | Traditionally Convocation had met whenever Parliament assembled , but the institution had been largely dormant after 1664 , when the clergy relinquished their right to tax themselves in return for the vote in Parliamentary elections , and had met only once since then , namely in 1689 . |
| 18 | However , the study of the MMI by Chung ( 1991 ) found evidence that by 1986 the arbitrage opportunities had been largely eliminated . |
| 19 | Modernism had been largely solemn . |
| 20 | Previously , the post of president had been largely ceremonial , with power concentrated in the higher echelons of the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) and the Council of Ministers . |
| 21 | Although positive , these first steps have been largely donor-driven . |
| 22 | Until very recently the theoretical issues raised by literary study have been largely ignored in British academic teaching and research . |
| 23 | The pub has been largely unchanged for 100 years but owners Bass took advantage of development planned in the next door antiques market to announce a drastic redevelopment . |
| 24 | So far , the card capacity has been largely limited to a mere 64 kilobytes and supply to third parties is controlled by Sharp which price them at up to £50 each , limiting the potential margin for would-be card publishers . |
| 25 | Consequently , the make-up of the council has been largely unrepresentative of grass-roots nurses and comprised mainly of nurse managers and senior educationists . |
| 26 | The manhood of England has been largely alienated from the organised Churches because we have been so absorbed by the interests of the individual soul as to neglect the woes of society , and so preoccupied with the delights of heaven as to overlook some of the most urgent duties of earth . |
| 27 | The sites selected were largely vacant and under-used ; the lower Swansea Valley was formerly heavily polluted by mineral-processing industries , and elsewhere the closure of major manufacturing plants created large and unoccupied sites . |
| 28 | In the short run , say a single year , quantity demanded is largely determined by market price . |
| 29 | His original plan had been largely dependent on much more time to play with , and involved a much closer personal interplay between himself and the young pilot . |
| 30 | In Uganda ( a country whose modern sector had been largely built by Indian entrepreneurs ) Milton Obote inserted a clause in the new Republican Constitution in 1966 which restricted the ownership of ‘ land , property or business , in certain areas to ‘ citizens of African blood ’ . |