Example sentences of "is largely [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 2 | When ice melts it is believed that this structure is largely maintained but that the spaces become partly filled , possibly by unbonded water molecules which are small enough to fit inside them , or are reduced in size by bending and reorganization of the hydrogen bonds . |
| 3 | In the third stage , identified with areas 20 and 21 in the temporal lobe by Kolb and Wishaw ( 1985 ) and with the parietal cortex by Luria ( 1973 ) , information about the retinal location of stimulus elements is largely lost and replaced with some form of representation of the object giving rise to the pattern of retinal stimulation . |
| 4 | It would be the way of our century to say that I was suffering from time-shock , no doubt ; since our personality is largely built and buttressed by our environment , and the assumptions environment and society force upon us , one has but to tip away that buttress and at once the personality is threatened with dissolution . |
| 5 | Crofting townships occupy this land which is largely fenced and comprises improved grasslands . |
| 6 | This is largely used as ‘ till money ’ to meet the day-to-day demands by customers for cash . |
| 7 | The exterior work is largely restored but the interior decoration in the apse is mainly original and consists of marble , porphyry and mother-of-pearl inlay on the lower part of the walls and mosaic above this and in the semi-dome . |