Example sentences of "[art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With little money in his pocket , and in fear for his life in those troubled times , he crossed the two thousand miles to the east well clear of the main highways and the great railways . |
| 2 | Beauty meant decoration , since the mere construction of the houses of the bourgeoisie or the objects which furnished them was seldom sufficiently grandiose to offer spiritual and moral sustenance in itself , as the great railways and steamships did . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The great abbey churches of the ninth and early tenth centuries had still been , for the most part , modest buildings for their communities alone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1541 Thomas Cranmer [ q.v. ] issued a licence for the conversion , which ensured the survival of at least part of the great abbey . |
| 10 | The Burgundians were great church builders , in varied style , but chiefly based on the design of the great Abbey of Cluny . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In addition to memorials marking the places associated with his career , the great dates — his birthday ; from the mid-1970s her birthday too ; the anniversary of the overthrow of Antonescu on 23 August — were marked by ceremonies , parades and shows in honour of Ceauşescu . |
| 13 | Three Black Arks laid siege to the great lighthouse of Lothern , the Glittering Tower . |
| 14 | And the great St. Brigid did the brewing for all the churches in the neighbourhood of Kildare at Eastertide . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The great Council House of 1879 and the neo-Classical Town Hall rub shoulders with the bold and modern . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ The Council of Guardians , ’ Benstede replied wearily , ‘ has called a meeting of the Great Council . |
| 20 | Then he gives a detailed description of the great Council in St Peter 's with which Anselm 's visit ended . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A much larger body , the Great Council , still survived at that date , meeting occasionally when the King wanted the views of the notables . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fijian Political Party ( est. 1990 by the Great Council of Chiefs ) ; All National Congress ( est. 1991 , Apisai Tora l . ) ; |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Great Council itself was essentially the precursor of the House of Lords . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |