Example sentences of "[vb pp] large " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've had different syllabuses at school and masters have in fact omitted large chunks of the syllabus to get better results in the parts that they concentrate on , so you can not assume that everybody has adequate abilities . |
| 2 | As a result BSL never committed large amounts of money , although it was under pressure to do so . |
| 3 | ‘ To date we have amassed large amounts of official information but lack material of a more personal note , ’ says 37-year-old Mr Stewart , whose great-grandfather and three great-uncles fought in the war , two uncles being killed in action . |
| 4 | It was an open tourer having a folding hood and never looked large enough to take four adults . |
| 5 | Certainly the house hardly looked large enough to support a private chapel . |
| 6 | The Daily Telegraph sports supplement carried large colour pictures of star speaker Catherine Destivelle , who also featured in The Times . |
| 7 | The large basic masses of north-east Scotland have shed large amounts of magnetite and ilmenite into the North Sea . |
| 8 | The Argyle is a relatively short jacket with large cuffs , and the specially designed large buttons ( gilt for the Head Warder , silver for Supervisors , dark horn for the rest ) will bear the Gallery 's Neo-classical portico . |
| 9 | Many branches have reported large sums being transferred by individual customers from building societies as a result of our advertising and its high interest claim . |
| 10 | * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] . |
| 11 | These had always bulked large in the history of diplomacy . |
| 12 | Some issues which had bulked large in previous generations now faded into the background . |
| 13 | It has been suggested , too , that pollution by nutrient is responsible for the outbreak of crown of thorns starfish , which have devastated large areas of Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( see overleaf ) . |
| 14 | Firms like Eli Lilly , Varity ( formerly International Harvester ) and GTE have also attracted large short holdings . |
| 15 | All these live programmes have attracted large audiences , with 800,000 to 1,200,000 viewers on a typical day , and more on big occasions ( 1.7 million for the statement on 1 February 1990 on the Colin Wallace affair , for example ) . |
| 16 | For many years , these had been a fixture of the concert schedules and had attracted large crowds to venues such as the Albert Hall and the Empire Pool ( now Wembley Arena ) . |
| 17 | On higher ground not far from there the wooden slopes that formed part of another stretch of pleasure grounds ( the Cheltenham spa grounds ) also attracted large crowds . |
| 18 | The universities have attracted large sums — more than £700 million of additional funding — for the current year , and our polytechnics likewise , now that they are independent of the stifling hand of Labour authorities — |
| 19 | The Interior region also included large parts of the dry zone which were sparsely populated , where famine was not uncommon . |
| 20 | These included large size , apparent intelligence , domestic status , beauty or aesthetic appeal , similarity or evolutionary ‘ closeness ’ to humans , harmlessness to humans , economic value , cultural or historical associations with people , and ‘ cuteness ’ in the sense of being juvenile or baby-like in appearance . |
| 21 | Anticipating land reform , poor peasants and agricultural labourers occupied large estates in a number of southern provinces ; several villagers , as in Yeste ( Albacete ) , perished in the attempt at the hands of the Civil Guard . |
| 22 | Such discrete estates occupied large areas of land and included many settlements . |
| 23 | Prisoners rapidly occupied large parts of the prison , and caused massive damage to the building . |
| 24 | Although its effect on the circulation of wild polioviruses has not been established , the incorporation of a single supplemental dose of IPV into vaccination regimens could substantially reduce the number of paralyses in countries where immunisation coverage with 3 or more doses of OPV is high ( 90% ) , but where immunogenicity studies have revealed large gaps in immunity to poliovirus types 1 and 3 . |
| 25 | The players ' marquee has grown larger and more grand , with chandeliers installed this year . |
| 26 | D. The map on page 119 shows how Sheffield has grown larger and larger . |
| 27 | Corbett looked away and gazed around ; the room had grown larger ; he turned and saw Thomas smiling at him as if through a haze . |
| 28 | We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) . |
| 29 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 30 | Contingents organised and supplied by churches formed a significant part of Carolingian armies ( a proportion that may have grown larger during the ninth century ) , complementing the king 's own military household and the troops led by lay nobles . |