Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] a large [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was intended to provide a large number of alternative words and expressions for subjects , so that advice workers could look for information under terms which were familiar to them and still find the right information . |
| 2 | Such defences are clearly of urban-core type , designed to enclose a large part of the occupied area south of the river , including the official buildings . |
| 3 | As the insurance companies could expect a huge increased revenue , they in turn could be expected to bear a large proportion of the cost of implementing the scheme . |
| 4 | [ The neighbourhood studies ] are designed to obtain a large amount of linguistic and social data on the major social networks of the neighbourhoods . |
| 5 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 6 | Such models can be designed to take a large number of factors into account at any one time . |
| 7 | The hearer is being trusted to take a large share of the responsibility in imagining what it may be for the speaker to be past his youth , and the result is a wide range of weak implicatures . |
| 8 | The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate . |
| 9 | Buxtehude , which is studied first , is most interesting for the way in which an attempt has been made to treat a large area of a small town , ranging from centre to suburb . |
| 10 | You can also see that zinc white has been applied to establish a large area of light |
| 11 | Coffield , Borrill , and Marshall ( 1986 ) , though giving all the young people in their study pseudonyms of their own choosing , nevertheless ‘ decided to omit a large amount of the richest ( traceable ) data , on the principle that those who are researched own the facts of their own lives and have the right to decide what should and should not be published . |
| 12 | It is clear that a main attraction of the project for its participants was the opportunity offered to obtain a large amount of space in a Central London location for a modest outlay . |
| 13 | The rogue p53 gene was also thought to play a large part in lung , stomach and bowel cancer . |
| 14 | Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 16 | He may have been persuaded to pay a large sum of money ( perhaps hundreds or thousands of pounds ) for the privilege of joining . |
| 17 | Last year ISI was commissioned to survey a large area of the Fife coast , which harbours many insects which are rare elsewhere in Britain , including the Northern Brown Argus Butterfly . |
| 18 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 19 | Graduates in the Social Sciences are well equipped to enter a large variety of occupations on leaving the University . |
| 20 | Clearly infrared observations are set to make a large impact on astronomy and astrophysics during the next few years . |
| 21 | The corporation ( currently state-owned but soon to be privatised ) already has considerable experience with optical-fibre technology , and argues that it should be allowed to play a large role in cabling Britain . |
| 22 | I had finally been forced to apply a large pad of cotton wool held in place with an enormous length of three-inch bandage . |
| 23 | We showed how to achieve certain basic patterns by using the processes that we discovered and then we saw how they could be combined to achieve a large class of patterns . |
| 24 | Rough Trade helped KLF 's ‘ 3 AM Eternal ’ obtain a Number One placing the very week the company were forced to make a large number of employees redundant . |
| 25 | I hate to keep bringing them up , but somehow the scum have managed to keep a large squad of mainly international players together . |
| 26 | The truth was that the Conservative party under Baldwin had managed to recover a large area of that middle ground in politics which is the key to electoral success and which they lost in 1206 , after being in possession for nearly twenty years before that . |