Example sentences of "have [verb] a large " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , newly issued bills will have to carry a larger discount to match the higher market rates .
2 Many schemes are funded for three to five years and , although some tapering mechanisms may allow continued but limited funding thereafter , in the long run local authorities may have to bear a larger proportion of total expenditure if schemes are to continue .
3 In his Preface to the Gardeners Dictionary , Miller invited communications on ‘ new experiments in relation to this art ’ and , at a time when scientific work was developing rapidly , this request alone would have attracted a large response .
4 The public will have to foot a large bill come what may .
5 And Julius Landor might have ruined a large chunk of her life , but he was n't going to ruin her birthday .
6 Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event .
7 This was far more than could be justified in the straitened circumstances of the time ( and indeed it would have produced a large margin of spare capacity on the actual early 1950s peak demand ) .
8 In fact these two opinions are not incompatible : a Merovingian may have had a large income , but he also had vast financial commitments ; he had to reward his faithful retainers ; he had to endow the shrines of the saints , to ensure their support , and that of the clergy who served them ; he would also have to demonstrate his piety in almsgiving .
9 ‘ The raiders must have had a large vehicle to transport the cattle which are valued at more than £1,000 each , ’ the spokesman added .
10 But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that .
11 She is the one who will have devoted the greater part of her married life to the job of child-raising and who will have invested a large part of herself in the children .
12 One early candidate , Henry Plough in 1517 , was simply appointed ; the opinion of the local priest — and , one assumes , of the local community — must have played a large part in most recommendations .
13 The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich , analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a ‘ defence of the familiar ’ , argues that if this were central to Conservatism ‘ we should have a mystery on our hands , the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition ’ .
14 We had two other rooms on the ground floor , a sort of kitchen and what most people would have called a large cupboard , but which Grace liked to describe as the parlour .
15 But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’
16 I predict that , if we do not reform matters , we shall have introduced a large number of Bills dealing with estuaries .
17 The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue .
18 The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue .
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