Example sentences of "[art] vast [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would help to explain Scott 's ability to produce the vast quantity of work displayed in the House of Commons and still carry on with his normal office work . |
| 2 | For the majority of the population , ‘ mathematics ’ is synonymous with what has been selected from the vast field of mathematics for inclusion in the exam syllabus . |
| 3 | It is not possible to explain the vast structure of institutions to which we assign the name of property as the expression , the means of satisfaction , of man 's desire for physical objects . |
| 4 | There had been a little unrest among the servants , particularly in the kitchen and pantries where Dora was resentful of finding Alexandra counting bottles of damsons and crocks of lard , and thrown totally into disarray by Alexandra 's demanding to be allowed to stir the jam or weigh out ingredients for chutney made from the vast harvest of plums . |
| 5 | They would exit under cover of darkness at one of numerous drop-zones fifty kilometres from the vast sprawl of Sagramaso City . |
| 6 | The vast proportion of funding for any LEA financed school is generated through the LMS system and therefore directly driven by pupil numbers . |
| 7 | And in the vast wilderness of Kazakhstan he finally saw his missing sparrow . |
| 8 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 9 | In fact , with my spartan diet and my gentleman 's bag which could accommodate only the tiniest of souvenirs ( a freedom I thought , compared to others ' great domed rucksacks ) , I began to feel like some travelling ascetic , roaming through ‘ the vast cinema of sensation . ’ |
| 10 | After an initial flirtation with Dick Tracy and a few others , however , Warhol plunged irretrievably into the vast sea of photographs for raw material . |
| 11 | Based inland , our hotels are situated in Orlando and neighbouring Kissimmee , ideally located for the vast variety of sights and theme parks you will want to visit on this holiday of a lifetime . |
| 12 | The vast reservoir of information he had acquired was bursting to be expressed . |
| 13 | Intimidated by the vast sweep of Morecambe Bay 's shifting sands below , I had to reverse a strenuous move and , in the days before I discovered contact lenses , ended up entangled in awkward loops of rope , my spectacles askew and dangling precariously from one ear . |
| 14 | The vast mass of peasantry could be neutralized by promising land reforms . |
| 15 | In countries such as Russia , where rapid industrialization had scarcely dented the economic preponderance of agriculture , turn-of-the-century Marxists debated how to adapt ‘ scientific socialism ’ to deal with the vast mass of peasants and the persistence of absolutist and quasi-feudal rule . |
| 16 | A great roar swept from every throat as the vast mass of grey parted and a single flag was raised above the heads of the throng . |
| 17 | The financial sector showed particularly rapid growth , connected with the growth of financial transactions implied by the vast expansion of saving and borrowing ( analysed in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 18 | The prime factor was ( and still is ) the vast expansion of paper note issues ( and bank deposits ) that has taken place in relation to world gold stocks . |
| 19 | The Chinese economy is boosted with the gold bullion sold through Hong Kong onto the world market and the vast exploitation of Tibet 's timber and mineral resources . |
| 20 | These are the groups and organizations which express the vast diversity of interests within society . |
| 21 | Few stations of the first generation survived the vast increase of railway traffic , but some did and they are well worth seeing Railways added a vast amount of detail to the English landscape , besides manipulating it at times on a large scale . |
| 22 | The vast majority of PEPs in numerical terms are sold to basic rate taxpayers . |
| 23 | Table 3 shows that although the vast majority of women eventually have children , families have become smaller over time . |
| 24 | While there are many imaginative programmes being put forward by firms and the accountancy bodies themselves , and indeed many initiatives already in place , the vast majority of women are unaware of these developments . |
| 25 | He nevertheless accepted the idea that there would probably be ‘ natural ’ limitations on their development , and envisaged that the vast majority of women would remain wives and mothers after legal emancipation . |
| 26 | Living and working separately from men , on our own , or with other women and children , as a conscious political choice and labelled separatism is not something the vast majority of women would identify as a possibility . |
| 27 | The vast majority of WOMEN answered : YES . |
| 28 | And expectations that we work , be active , and conceal as far as possible the very existence of our periods , mean that the instant , ’ disposable ’ , ’ invisible ’ products of the soft paper industry are the obvious choice for the vast majority of women . |
| 29 | We 'll kee got to keep on getting it in proportion that ninety nine percent of them have been done right and that 's as to the seven hundred tests in out of four point five billion , is very small numbers indeed so the vast majority of women can be reassured . |
| 30 | And that phenomenon , is known as inactivation , and it 's a property shown by most by the vast majority of voltage gated channels . |