Example sentences of "were largely [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So increases in state spending were largely offset by corresponding reductions by taxpayers . |
| 2 | Spates of tenant disputes in the early 1920s and 1930s were largely provoked by local issues . |
| 3 | Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations . |
| 4 | Those rules were largely developed in cases concerned with exclusion clauses , and they obviously apply here . |
| 5 | These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya . |
| 6 | The techniques of processing the data on grain size were largely explored during the 1920s and 1930s when a series of textural classifications was introduced . |
| 7 | She was tall , dark-haired and strong-willed , characteristics which were largely repeated in all of Jack 's long-term relationships . |
| 8 | In return for the confederation 's agreement to work within the system , however , its demands were largely met in a national address by President Denis Sassou-Nguesso on Sept. 16 , and the congress formally concluded on Sept. 18 . |
| 9 | These needs were largely met by 10 new debt issues in the international capital markets , totalling $1.5 billion . |
| 10 | After the Reformation the monasteries were largely destroyed or fell into ruin . |
| 11 | Other income sources were largely maintained despite the continuing recession . |
| 12 | The advantages compared with ordinary civil procedure were largely limited to Rome , since each province had only one jurisdictional magistrate . |
| 13 | Prior to the 1940s , although communities experienced severe air pollution , control measures were largely limited to the passing of local legislation or to private litigation claiming air pollution to be a common-law nuisance . |
| 14 | Oil-spill experts from a number of countries flew into the area to assist with cleaning-up operations , which were largely limited to defending the intakes of desalination plants with the use of booms and " skimmer " vessels ; the slick was seen as too large for practical use of chemical dispersants , which might in any case damage marine life , and the best hope for its dispersal lay in a combination of the natural processes of evaporation and breakdown by marine bacteria . |
| 15 | At the time when there were doubts about whether or not the tour would go ahead , after the first invitations were largely turned down , numerous stories started to circulate that there would be money available and that sponsors were in the country looking for players . |
| 16 | The ways in which heads reported to governors before the 1980 Education Act , when there was less community representation , and after the 1986 Act which required governors to report to annual parent meetings ( and for which the reports were largely written by heads ) , differ from the task after the Education Reform Act . |
| 17 | The cost of that level of expansion ah were largely written off against revenue or a large part of against revenue with the effect that reduces the business to break even . |
| 18 | The Lombardy League advocated the creation of a federal system which would no longer allow the south access to subsidies which , it held , were largely funded by the north . |
| 19 | Pre-Victorian pubs were largely run on the basis of waiter-service , following from the original concept that the pub was a house open to the public for refreshment — hence the term ‘ public house ’ . |
| 20 | Released in September 1926 , following the defeat of the general strike , he organized national hunger marches in 1929 , 1932 , and 1934 , which were largely ostracized by the Labour movement and were harassed by the police , sometimes leading to violence . |
| 21 | A number of them were largely built in the late Romanesque style and of these some survive in whole or in part . |
| 22 | Lastly , the sad record of colonialism in the far north-east includes the name of the Aleuts , who were largely annihilated by the Russians during the latters ' trans-Pacific adventure in pursuit of sea-otter furs . |
| 23 | According to the IMF , the upward pressure on the deutschmark in the first half of 1990 did not adversely affect other currencies participating in the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) , as increases in West German interest rates were largely matched throughout the European Communities . |
| 24 | In Latin works of an important nature titles , headings and the opening words of chapters were largely based on Roman script forms , the majuscule style of writing ; and the body of the text written in an uncial form which , after the coming of the Normans and the spread of their influence , was gradually succeeded by a further uncial style . |
| 25 | But J. S. Middleton , the Labour Party General Secretary , had set out in a series of published letters to Harry Pollitt , the Communist secretary , the arguments against allowing Communist affiliation : they were largely based upon the fact that the Communists adhered to the Communist International , based in Moscow , and were bound to obey its orders . |
| 26 | After the Second World War there were no significant revolutionary movements in the defeated countries ; and in Eastern Europe , with the exception of Yugoslavia , the major changes in political regimes did not result from indigenous revolutions but were largely imposed by the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Moreover , they were largely deprived of the stability and continuity of traditional rural life . |
| 28 | A thousand roubles or less was normal , lower even than agreed prices for antiques , and acquisitions were largely made underground , an accepted means of trading for private collectors . |
| 29 | The reports said that the bandit groups were largely made up of demobilized soldiers . |
| 30 | Only a small fraction would elude this category if we accept that , contrary to much contemporary opinion , paupers were largely made up not of a delinquent or a wilfully dependent population but of those who could not work either through incapacity or age , or who could not , in the vagaries of the labour market , find work . |