Example sentences of "[vb pp] a larger " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only AA has reported a larger rise in fee income so far , at 12.7% . |
| 2 | And although I have occasionally considered a larger tank in the house ( I have a 48″ × 15″ × 15″ ) , accommodating it would involve so much disruption that I have never bitten the bullet . |
| 3 | The engineers from Wallingford have also built a larger model in Italy , which shows that the idea will work . |
| 4 | Details of the proposals remain secret , but Mr Taylor and the PFA were probably promised a larger minimum guarantee than the £1 million on the table last week . |
| 5 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |
| 6 | Samuel Rhodes , the viola player of the Quartet , has had a larger size instrument made which enables the normal viola range to extend downwards by a fourth . |
| 7 | VAUX chairman Paul Nicholson has always had a larger than life attitude to the manner in which he conducts his business . |
| 8 | This study has shown a larger proportion of electrocardiographic changes ( 91% ) than previous studies , even though some of these included sinus tachycardia as an arrhythmia . |
| 9 | An even better test is whether , after two years , the successful candidate is promoted again or given a larger international role . |
| 10 | However the UK was given a larger share of the regional and social funds . |
| 11 | At the same time , the post-war years have provided a larger and more easily identified target for racial animosity in the new populations of Caribbean and Asian immigrants . |
| 12 | A practice with more patients needing expensive medicines will be set a larger amount . |
| 13 | It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won . |
| 14 | ( Iran had dissented from the final OPEC agreement in September on grounds that it did not impose strict enough controls on output — see p. 39120 — but had also demanded a larger proportional share for itself . |
| 15 | In April a US Defence Department study on " burden sharing " claimed that the USA had spent a larger share of its national income on the military budget in 1988 than virtually all its NATO allies , and cited Japan and Canada for what it called " below par " contributions to Western defence . |
| 16 | The presence of the intercalator has also caused a larger number of blockages compared with the more discrete damage caused by the simple complexes . |
| 17 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 18 | The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh , I believe , had a recent £200,000 deficit , but has been awarded a larger grant . |
| 19 | As the decades have gone by , scholarly work has piled up , so that this category of book has taken a larger , longer and much more expensive form than before . |
| 20 | And in Italy opinion polls suggest the Socialist Party has lost a larger share of support since the election a year ago than any other party . |
| 21 | In fact , in the first half of the 1980s , British Steel achieved a larger reduction in its capacity than the steel industry in any other major EC country . |
| 22 | Only the tertiary sector has maintained a larger share of the cake , an average of over 4 per cent during the period from 1978/79 and 1986/87 , compared with 1.04 per cent for general education in the decade from 1978 to 1989 ( see Figure 9.4 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |