Example sentences of "[art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Today , when councils like that in Tewkesbury restore old Meeting Houses — in Tewkesbury 's case a Baptist chapel down a narrow lane opposite the great Abbey Church — Baptist visitors are as surprised as everyone else at the austerity of the past .
2 The great abbey churches of the ninth and early tenth centuries had still been , for the most part , modest buildings for their communities alone .
3 Across the landscape the castles emerged , new French styles of architecture began to affect the parish churches , the great abbey of St Martin de Bello ( Battle ) started to rise on the site of Harold 's defeat at Senlac , and a new cathedral grew in Chichester .
4 Suger devoted many years to rebuilding the great abbey church ( in i style which was later to be hailed as the prototype of Gothic architecture ) to make it a fit royal mausoleum , as well as a place of worship in which mere men could obtain a brief insight into the grandeur that surrounded the king of kings in heaven .
5 In 1146 Louis VII was asked to confirm the privileges enjoyed by the great abbey of La Trinité de Vendôme , under the patronage of the counts of Anjou .
6 The great abbey of Vézelay , dedicated to St Mary Magdalen , was so thronged with pilgrims in the early twelfth century that a rebuilding programme was carried out , resulting in some of the finest Romanesque sculpture to be seen in all France .
7 In 1541 Thomas Cranmer [ q.v. ] issued a licence for the conversion , which ensured the survival of at least part of the great abbey .
8 The Burgundians were great church builders , in varied style , but chiefly based on the design of the great Abbey of Cluny .
9 In the year of the 900th anniversary of the death of Queen Margaret , who laid the foundations of the great abbey and raised the town 's status from a crude settlement to an important station on the pilgrim map , Dunfermline District Council has commissioned two important research prints from Scotland 's only historical illustrator , Jurek Putter , a St Andrews artist .
10 Three Black Arks laid siege to the great lighthouse of Lothern , the Glittering Tower .
11 To restrain partisan appointments , the great Council of Nicaea called by Constantine in 325 invested the bishop of the metropolis of the civil province with a veto .
12 On 1 February of the following year , therefore , the Great Council granted the king an aid of a fifteenth of all moveables , and in return the Charter of the Forest was re-issued .
13 The great Council House of 1879 and the neo-Classical Town Hall rub shoulders with the bold and modern .
14 The great council at Paderborn was also attended by ambassadors from Saracen Spain , with a surprising offer of homage from Soliman Ibn-al-Arabi and Kasmin Ibn-Yussuf .
15 ‘ The Council of Guardians , ’ Benstede replied wearily , ‘ has called a meeting of the Great Council .
16 Then he gives a detailed description of the great Council in St Peter 's with which Anselm 's visit ended .
17 There is some evidence that Edward acted upon this request : in 1289 a specific judge of appeals ( unusjurisperitus judex appellacionum ) was created to handle cases arising from the court of Gascony , and a number of assemblies took place which gathered together the prelates , barons , knights and other nobles of the duchy , culminating in the great council at which Edward 's judicial and administrative ordinance ( 1289 ) for the future government of Aquitaine was promulgated .
18 A much larger body , the Great Council , still survived at that date , meeting occasionally when the King wanted the views of the notables .
19 A new draft constitution was drawn up in 1988 and approved by the Great Council of Chiefs , the traditional Melanesian hierarchical structure , in June 1990 .
20 Fiji 's executive President was to be appointed for a five-year term by the Great Council of Chiefs , which would also nominate 24 Melanesians to the 34-member Senate .
21 Fijian Political Party ( est. 1990 by the Great Council of Chiefs ) ; All National Congress ( est. 1991 , Apisai Tora l . ) ;
22 In March 1991 the Great Council of Chiefs proposed the creation of a Fiji Political Party ( FPP ) , which coup leader Rabuka immediately suggested that he might lead .
23 The Great Council itself was essentially the precursor of the House of Lords .
24 Dawson 's first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) , subtitled A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East , began by noting that ‘ During the last thirty years the great development of archaeological and anthropological studies has prepared the way for a new conception of history . ’
25 He relied upon the great development that has recently taken place in the law of judicial review whereby the courts have asserted a general jurisdiction to review the decisions of tribunals and inferior courts .
26 Even the great country house his hero had once hopelessly loved , as an outsider , has been ruined by military occupation ; and the army that has mined it , as he bitterly recognises , is his own .
27 He wishes to be a chef to travel the great country houses of Europe . ’
28 Then she felt the great gliding swoop , the downward hover and the bump as the dragon landed .
29 To the west of this is the great narthex with , behind , the complex façade of pinnacles , mosaic decoration and sculpture .
30 Some of the most beautiful mosaics are the thirteenth century pictures covering the vault of the great narthex .
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