Example sentences of "[noun] a large [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also found great pleasure in reading , but although my father had brought to Fontanellato a large number of Slovene books , she had soon to resort to reading in Italian , which she inevitably found more difficult . |
| 2 | In Indonesia a large part of the argument which led on two occasions to undeclared war turned on the federal nature of the new state . |
| 3 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 4 | Under Ordinance 12 of 1840 forest land was declared the property of the Crown , and in some districts a large proportion of it was sold for plantation development . |
| 5 | For this purpose he built up at his own expense a large collection of apparatus , which by 1723 he valued at £400 . |
| 6 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 7 | We crossed the Arctic Circle without ceremony , the only indication a large noticeboard by the roadside and a row of white-painted boulders disappearing into the trees at either side . |
| 8 | Erm does anybody have on any of their various computers a large map of England ? |
| 9 | In the face of such doubts a large number of mental health service users , including me , remain resolutely in favour of community care . |
| 10 | Gemma is glamorous as always , her lips a large pucker of blood red , her hair a shock of bleached white-blonde , her legs fish-netted and mini-skirted , high Doc Martens on her feet . |
| 11 | After the wedding a large number of our friends came to a party at our house . |
| 12 | A large agency may have in its offices a large number of other departments : information and library , data processing , legal , personnel , art buying , contracts ( with TV and radio actors , personalities , etc. ) , home economics , exhibitions , overseas , direct mail , merchandising and sales promotion , public relations , audio-visual production , secretaries , receptionists , telephonists , and purely ‘ logistic ’ departments such as mailing , messengers and office management . |
| 13 | Firstly , they show that the pattern of villages and hamlets seen on the map today is incomplete and that , contrary to earlier ideas about medieval settlement , in some areas a large number of former sites has disappeared . |
| 14 | In some countries a large majority of the electorate do not even exercise the right to vote . |
| 15 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 16 | They knocked , gained entrance and offered the lady a large amount of money if s-he would abide by certain conditions and would never breathe a word of anything that happened on that fateful night . |
| 17 | In the private sector a large number of estate agents , landlords , accommodation agencies and building societies have been found to operate discriminatory registers , refusing to let or sell or lend to black individuals and families , while direct and indirect discrimination in many local authority housing departments has led to black tenants being allocated inferior council housing ( Gordon and Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Next moment a large piece of kitchen roll had been shoved into her hand . |
| 19 | She was now to be seen in a small cubby-hole next to Mr Malik 's office , typing furiously , or on the phone to an organization called the Islamic World Unity Fund , which was said to be about to offer Mr Malik and Mr Shah a large sum in US dollars . |
| 20 | ‘ Every morning a bit of dry bread & some bad small beer , ’ Coleridge mournfully recalled , ‘ every evening a larger piece of bread , & cheese or butter … ’ |
| 21 | Notwithstanding these drawbacks a large proportion of international trade is conducted on an open account basis with the documents of title being sent direct to the importer . |
| 22 | In academic libraries a large number of requests for a new book may suggest that it is a recommended text , and is likely to influence the number of copies purchased ( probably for the short loans collection ) . |
| 23 | The Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) has therefore given Bristol a large increase in research funding ( about 4% above the national average ) . |
| 24 | Over the past three years a large number of deep mines have closed , while at the same time there has been pressure to develop and expand the open-cast and private sectors of the industry . |
| 25 | Upright chairs were placed around the walls of the drawing room a large distance from one another . |
| 26 | In the wake of Sputnik a large number of observers , sympathetic and hostile , were convinced that the USSR 's technical and scientific prowess , and the planning system which underpinned it , posed a profound challenge to the West 's values , institutions and international standing . |
| 27 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 28 | I I I it is very easy to find examples which , which show how absurd they were , the results f f , for instance a large area like Devon and Cornwall with four thousand square miles having now thirty elected members reduced under the Bill to eight would be absurd . |
| 29 | No , I was just thinking , we we 're , we 're debating the in the Commons at the moment , changing the parole board from having part-time members , to having salaried full-time ones , which are on limited contracts and that clearly puts those parole board members in a different position to the Home Secretary and one it 's ju you just do it because it 's a part-time activity , you may get some expenses that you think is important , and I just wanted to get clear whether the Chairman on a limited contract a large part of their work appointed by the employer . |
| 30 | The centre has as its base a large house in the village of Glencoe which is surrounded by fantastic mountains — ideal for skiing and mountaineering in the winter and for hillwalking in the summer . |