Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the response of large sections of the Arab community to the US presence in the Gulf , commentators emphasized that Assad 's strategy was a dangerous one and at the end of August Western press reports stated that large numbers of soldiers had been dispatched to Syria 's eastern frontier with Iraq to put down pro-Iraqi demonstrations and riots . |
| 2 | Since the publication in 1932 of Berle and Means ' study of American capitalism , The Modern Corporation and Private Property , it has been the orthodoxy that in the majority of large public companies managements have escaped effective shareholder control . |
| 3 | This chapter has suggested that in the majority of large public companies the separation of ownership and control is a reality , and that this opens up the possibility that in some of them , subject to the variable constraining influence of market forces , managements will pursue deviant goals and/or shirk . |
| 4 | This gas is held in regional storage facilities in both high pressure storage vessels , in high pressure pipelines and in the more familiar gas holders such as those seen in the majority of large towns throughout the South West . |
| 5 | The power-politics model conceptualizes rather poorly the fragmentation of large states and the ensuing proliferation of small states . |
| 6 | If you live in a flat , and this is impossible , throw away all those that you do not really need , and store the remainder in large biscuit tins or other airtight containers . |
| 7 | These data are in line with the general concept of a trend to more ‘ flexible production ’ ; they link the reduction in large plants , presented earlier , with the increase achieved in manufacturing output per person employed of 50 per cent , 1981–89 . |
| 8 | SuperViews masks the complexity of large database structures by providing a graphical overview of database tables , which can be provided , with instructive information to end users . |
| 9 | All kinds of infrastructure are being provided , both through the expenditure of public moneys under programmes organised by , for instance , the Department of the Environment and the Department of Transport , and through the provision of large amounts of private-sector capital in the case of such matters as telecommunications infrastructure . |
| 10 | The existence of large areas of apparently uninhabited forest , as seen from the air , is deceptive ; the largest areas of fertile soils are found along the main rivers and these are quite densely populated , while the forest beyond serves as an indispensable hunting-ground for people whose diet is based on protein from the wild rather than domesticated animals . |
| 11 | In addition traditional views on the need to maintain competition within an economy have been influenced not only by the existence of large foreign companies , but also by the increasing globalisation of world trade and the completion of the Single European Market by 1992 . |
| 12 | A contrast may be drawn in this respect between the highly fragmented union movements in Anglo-Saxon countries where the historical and ideological connection between socialism and trade unionism was much weaker , and the formation of broad , comprehensive interest organisations on the part of the working class by way of the existence of large industrial unions in those European countries such as Sweden , Austria and Germany with a strong socialist tradition ( Streeck , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | The survival of Catholic recusancy and the existence of large numbers of ungodly and seemingly unregenerate vagrants and dissolutes gave credence to the idea of reprobation . |
| 14 | The existence of large and mobile capital flows makes it extremely difficult for national governments to overcome market pressure and maintain an exchange rate which is not compatible with general market sentiment . |
| 15 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 16 | The Majority Report of the Royal Commission on Divorce used the existence of large numbers of working class common-law marriages as an argument in favour of relaxing the divorce law and thus permitting remarriage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Certainly , the fascist movements emerged in conditions of economic crisis and fierce class struggles , but their development was also made possible by the existence of large numbers of déclassès and discontented former soldiers and officers who formed the fascist militias , by a rising tide of nationalism , and in the countries where they were successful , by authoritarian traditions of government . |
| 19 | Anyway , I 've always had a soft spot for this , there 's no problem about the existence of large morphological changes due to a single mutation . |
| 20 | In certain circumstances , cultivators may gain some land from the break-up of large estates , and often workers are rewarded with new regulations on conditions and pay . |
| 21 | Thus , workers , with an interest in the collective ownership of land , might ally with peasants , dedicated to the break-up of large estates and the establishment of private land holdings , for the common but short-term purpose of overthrowing aristocratic control of land . |
| 22 | The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 . |
| 23 | Pupils have long had the guarantee of a careers service , the promise of a YT place is familiar , and the colleges rarely turn applicants away on any ground except actual lack of room or staff , but the reminder to the young person of their rights is important , as is the willingness of large numbers of companies to take part in what amounts to a joint recruitment exercise . |
| 24 | The process depended on the willingness of large numbers of members to serve voluntarily in the various capacities concerned . |
| 25 | The centres conduct selection procedures , which involve an interview , and in the case of large dogs , make an initial visit to make sure the home is suitable , plus a follow-up once the dog is settled in to check that all is OK . |
| 26 | The need for redevelopment and reuse can also arise in the case of large country houses and estates where there may be pressure for the introduction of heritage centres or other types of leisure development . |
| 27 | This gives names of cities , towns , villages , rivers , lakes etc. in the British Isles with details of situations , populations and , in the case of large towns or cities , of government buildings . |
| 28 | Thirdly , and most importantly for our purposes , the natural-entity theory overcame the problems of the artificiality in the case of large companies of analysing the directors ' managerial power as being derived from the contractual agreement of the shareholders . |
| 29 | In the case of large diversified ‘ conglomerate ’ corporations , can the organisation have a major objective other than a financial one ( eg. profit maximisation ) ? |
| 30 | Deals with investors tend to be direct in the case of large institutional holders of government stock but will often be through agency brokers in the case of personal customers . |