Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] a large [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 2 | To find that you 've left a large space for a larege number of flowers none of which turn up . |
| 3 | Here we have examined a large group of subjects without symptoms covering a broad age range and in whom the H pylori state was known . |
| 4 | There 's nothing difficult about a whole stream of , of er comments were raised by the inspector Mr team are , have addressed a large number of them , have told us what they propose to do to deal with a number of er and , and I believe that there will be things left over when he 's finished that , that he wo n't be able to resolve er perhaps er without the people that help the Committee er or some of us are always suggesting is that er those things that he is unsuccessful in resolving erm be identified and so that er when , when the er the Inspector makes his er his next report we can see just , just why that some of these other items there have were n't able to be addressed . |
| 5 | However , such strategies have perhaps become less important for the very high income earners who , in recent years , have enjoyed a large reduction in the taxes they have had to pay following the reduction in the high rates of income tax since 1979 : for example , in real terms , those earning over £400 per week take home on average an extra £55 more in 1986 then they did in 1979 . |
| 6 | The best that we seem to be able to say is that biological and psychological categories have tended to contain only a very small minority of offenders ( as well as a significant proportion of non-offenders ) , while sociological categories have contained a large majority of non-offenders ( and by no means all offenders ) . |
| 7 | Japanese chemists have synthesised a large number of isoprenyl and isoprenoxyl derivatives and tested them against animal models . |
| 8 | Peter 's Bar may be the reason why Horta became such a popular stopping off spot for transatlantic yachts , and because so many yachts stop there the authorities have built a large marina with every facility . |
| 9 | Recent X-rays taken at the Courtauld Institute have revealed a large number of small pentimenti in the details of the composition . |
| 10 | So far , the Government have made a large number of verbal commitments to creating the terms and conditions of employment that would enable women to stay in the work force and not give up when they have families . |
| 11 | In one fell swoop the authorities have made a large step towards perpetuating the quality , image and prestige of the Home Internationals by allowing the players to be available . |
| 12 | Conditions in which there is depletion of its , which are essential for emulsifying fats in the gut , are also characterised by low levels of vitamin E. Examples are people with liver disease , or who have had a large part of the ileum ( ’ lower ’ end of the small intestine ) removed . |
| 13 | Well , at certain times we have had a large number of Bengali patients . |
| 14 | Both my classes , the one on semantics and the one on pragmatics , have had a large number of students on them , which is gratifying in suggesting their popularity , but I shall pay the penalty when I have to mark all their papers . |
| 15 | Well that 's one the other reason , of course we have got a large number of chur , very small churches in fact , looking at our mai , ministry figures nineteen ninety there were thirty churches that did n't pay anything to the maintenance and a lot of these , I think , maybe |
| 16 | Staff from the group have played a large part in the Logica data architecture and 1:10K digital mapping consultancies , and have worked with staff from other divisions to start developing a BGS wide approach to digital databases . |
| 17 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 18 | But , just as with the other two batches , centres have gone well beyond just the transfer of the remaining old courses into the new system and have proposed a large number of innovative courses and units for validation . |
| 19 | The first seven days of heavy fighting and shelling have caused a large number of casualties ; the Commando units in some instances are down to less than half strength . |
| 20 | Here soil conservation does not stand alone in this , and rural development in general suffers from the same problems which have generated a large literature in the improvement of planning and administrative systems . |
| 21 | Suppose , for example , that up until today I have observed a large number of ravens under a wide variety of circumstances and have observed all of them to have been black and that , on that basis , I conclude , ‘ All ravens are black ’ . |
| 22 | Such defaults have forced a large number of repossessions by bankers and other lenders . |
| 23 | ‘ You have left a large void in my Heart , ’ Coleridge wrote in November . |
| 24 | For you have blown a large breach in the walls of my existence . ’ |
| 25 | We we have acquired a large chunk of the the yes . |
| 26 | Ripening conditions are so uneven in England that producers have planted a large number of grape varieties , both vinifera and hybrids , to cope with the problem . |