Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] large " in BNC.
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| 1 | All field-workers took weapons with them , and would venture forth to collect firewood only in large parties . |
| 2 | Skirtings are generally nailed into place to timber packing pieces , called grounds , which are themselves secured to the masonry behind with large cut nails . |
| 3 | This may well be a socially beneficial outcome , but it sets the criminal law dangerously at large unless the exercise of the powers thereby conferred is the subject of careful scrutiny by the courts . |
| 4 | Very similar to Great Spotted , and chiefly distinguished by white face due to absence of black bar on side of neck ; from Middle Spotted and White-backed distinguished by lack of red crown , and from White-backed also by large white wing patch . |
| 5 | Within the context of current agricultural policies there are sound economic and social reasons for abandoning farming altogether over large areas of the uplands and using the land for other purposes which would both be profitable and create employment . |
| 6 | They took to calling his specimens ‘ buffons ’ , their attention having been drawn to the word by the sight of Huxley 's copy of Buffon 's Natural history , which in a series of many volumes , displayed the name repeatedly in large gilt letters on a shelf in the chart room . |
| 7 | Plumage exceptionally variable from pale to dark ; tail barred , often faintly , with obscure dark band at tip ; underwing often with large pale patch . |
| 8 | Under section 18(1) of the Act a patient who absented himself from hospital without leave could be taken into custody and returned to the hospital ; and the police had all their usual powers for the purpose ( s.137(2) ) including power , under section 17(1) ( d ) of PACE to enter and search premises for recapturing a person unlawfully at large . |
| 9 | The end result of this case is that the police have a power to enter and search any premises for the purpose of recapturing a person unlawfully at large , provided he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is on those premises ( s. 17(1) ( d ) & ( 2 ) of PACE and that they have the power to use reasonable force in effecting entry and arresting the person sought ( s.117 of PACE ) . |
| 10 | The easy answer was that a person absent without leave ( that is a person who does not have the leave of his or her responsible medical officer within s.17 of the Mental Health Act 1983 to be absent from the hospital ) is a person unlawfully at large ( as is required for the operation of the entry power in s.17 of PACE ) . |
| 11 | Retirement migration is the most commonly discussed example of movement away from large urban areas , and has increasingly affected younger retirees . |
| 12 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 13 | The fourth largest lake in Iceland , it lies in the middle of an area of intense geothermal and volcanic activity , and its thirty-seven square kilometres of water surface provide a summer home to large numbers of waterfowl . |
| 14 | ( Gardner 1981 : 2 ) General problems of the use and misuse of the universal soil loss equation are discussed by Wischmeier ( 1976 ) and Stocking ( 1978a ) ; these contribute to the difficulty and extrapolation particularly over large areas implied by the scale of the FAO map . |
| 15 | Beautiful blonde hair was permed with a Herb Flower Perm then set first on medium then on large curlers to achieve these contrasting styles . |