Example sentences of "[adv] [art] great " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Having lost their captain , Zbigniew Boniek , arguably the greatest of Polish footballers , to Juventus , Widzew saw Dziekanowski as a replacement and so , at 21 , ‘ Jacki ’ was transferred in 1984 for 21m zlotys , a record between Polish clubs , amounting at that time to some £200,000 . |
| 2 | Davies , though a useful club cricketer , could hardly be compared with Fry , but he can boast an achievement that eluded arguably the greatest of all-round English sportsmen . |
| 3 | Martina Navratilova is arguably the greatest woman tennis player of all time . |
| 4 | Since The Band Wagon is arguably the greatest — as well as most typical — of all musicals ( if we exclude The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach , 1968 , as non-eligible and demote Singin' in the Rain , 1952 , to second place ) , one can only wish there were more of it . |
| 5 | Although she once said ‘ I 've always thought that it was a mistake to think too much about games or sports , ’ she died , 27 June 1960 , in a nursing home in Sway , Hampshire , arguably the greatest all-round sportswoman England has ever produced . |
| 6 | Arguably the greatest American architect of the twentieth century , but not a name I 've heard you drop into casual conversation before . ’ |
| 7 | Consider , insists Wade , the office of Secretary of State with the smallest budget of the Cabinet Departments yet arguably the greatest status in the system ( Wade 1979 , p. 354 ) . |
| 8 | Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras . |
| 9 | From this time onward the greater part of the effort is concentrated on the critical event that made the difference between a routine flight and a catastrophe . |
| 10 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 11 | Presumably the great advantage of word-processing , if , if you have the sort of decent printer that you mentioned , is that you could send what appear to be rather personal letters to a whole lot of people rather rapidly erm putting in , for example , at a very elementary level , their individual name , but also coupling together relevant paragraphs erm which would be appropriate to them . |
| 12 | I remember mostly the great joy and vitality of the churches and communities I visited . |
| 13 | Slowly the great room emptied until only the six T'ang and the two young boys remained . |
| 14 | Slowly the great globe of Chung Kuo turned in space , moving through sunlight and darkness , the blank faces of its continents glistening like ice caps beneath huge swirls of cloud . |
| 15 | Slowly the great sun through the heaven moves |
| 16 | The Pandavas are banished to the forest for 12 years , but eventually the great war comes … |
| 17 | To die from a bullet seems to be nothing ; parts of our being remain intact ; but to be dismembered , torn to pieces , reduced to pulp , this is a fear that flesh can not support and which is fundamentally the great suffering of the bombardment … |
| 18 | Some had existed from the fourth and fifth centuries on — especially the great pilgrim basilicas of Rome , with St Peter and St Paul fuori le mura in the lead . |
| 19 | Also there were major repairs to property to decide on , as well as seasonal considerations , and orders to transmit , with regard to land use of many thousands of acres , the annual survey of cattle and horse stock and especially the great sheep-hirsels in the Lammermuir Hills , the wool from which , largely exported to Flanders and the Low Countries from Berwick-on-Tweed , constituted the lordship 's principal source of wealth . |
| 20 | By contrast with what it saw as the corrosive and unbelieving spirit of the age , that movement was deeply concerned to recover and reinstate the ancient doctrines of the faith , especially the great dogmas hammered out in the early centuries ; and with them to restore the sense of continuity and rich unbroken tradition which found its expression especially in ritual and liturgy . |
| 21 | Behind the truant husband Marmeladov , perhaps the greatest feat of instant creation in all Dostoevsky as he buttonholes Raskolnikov in the pub with hay sticking to his clothes and vodka at hand — behind that immortal Russian drunkard stretches a long line of urban dropouts and psychological cripples , of paupers and other victims of the ravages of early capitalism ( think of Petersburg as several decades behind Manchester ) , of the ‘ insulted and injured ’ in the novel of that title and elsewhere , back to the beginning , back to Mr Devushkin with his teapot and pipe and his ‘ fearful lapses ’ over the bottle . |
| 22 | This latter point was perhaps the greatest concern for Britain 's aviation planners as the war went on . |
| 23 | All these things are related to the Izzat of the girl — saving her Izzat ( and through that their own Izzat ) is perhaps the greatest responsibility of her parents or guardian . |
| 24 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 25 | While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera . |
| 26 | Perhaps the greatest impact was made on his thinking by the Commonwealth Prime Ministers ’ Conference of that year , when general dismay was expressed about his proposed reductions in overseas garrisons before adequate air-reinforcement capabilities had been built up . |
| 27 | Perhaps the greatest irony , though , is that the birth of the great museums in the last century did as much as anything to foster the idea that there was a single , empirical truth to be told . |
| 28 | Yet most of these critics admit that the Times is one of the world 's great newspapers , perhaps the greatest . |
| 29 | Perhaps the greatest puzzle of all , however , is essentially political . |
| 30 | Such a distinction was perhaps the greatest novelty imported into the world of classical antiquity by Christianity : no Greek or Roman would have tried to disentangle sacred from profane in his ceremonials , or even have understood the distinction . |