Example sentences of "[v-ing] the great " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent , it means allowing the Great Mother archetype to flourish within ourselves . |
| 2 | At Cologne we turned for home , circling the great cathedral at what felt like an angle of forty five degrees . |
| 3 | It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed . |
| 4 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 5 | Becket may well have been closely involved in building the great walls of packed clay which still enclose the local ‘ innings ’ , or sheep pastures . |
| 6 | The Corinthias celebrated the fall of the Bacchiad tyrants in the sixth century by building the great temple of Apollo — and also by reorganizing and strengthening their tribal system . |
| 7 | As an architect he was sent from Durham in 1364 to Coldingham priory , a Scottish dependency , and in 1367–74 had charge of building the great kitchen of Durham priory , with its remarkable vault of Spanish inspiration . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Angus , East ( Mr. Welsh ) is merely parading the great terror in front of the farmers for his own purposes . |
| 9 | In her anxiety not to ‘ assist ’ the nationalistic bourgeoisie of Poland , Rosa Luxemburg , by her denial of the right of secession in the programme of the Russian Marxists is , in fact , assisting the Great Russian Black Hundreds ( extreme Right ) ; she is in fact assisting … the nationalism of the Great Russians … the most formidable at the present time : it is precisely the one that is less bourgeois and more feudal , and it is precisely the one that acts as the principal brake on democracy and the proletarian struggle . |
| 10 | Many prey upon termites , raiding the great mounds and doing battle with the soldiers . |
| 11 | It provided the subjects with a soothing and uplifting hope that whenever there appeared in their lives an oppressive mischance , some tormenting difficulty , His Most Unrivalled Highness would hearten them — by attaching the greatest importance to that mischance or difficulty . |
| 12 | Thinking of the frail figure sitting in the gloomy room at the sanatorium , trusting the great Bonanza . |
| 13 | Reflecting the great care taken by the architects to conserve and enhance the qualities of this former industrial building as a significant element in the metropolitan riverside scene , the project has received several awards , including a Doe Housing Design Award and a Civic Trust Award , both of which were presented in 1985 . |
| 14 | The New Survey of London Life and Labour agreed with this assessment and reported that whereas in the 1880s homework had been done primarily to supplement wages , in the 1930s women tended to work in order to buy extras , reflecting the greater regularity of men 's employment , together with a more efficient social security system for the families of the unemployed . |
| 15 | In 11 out of 16 industries the concentration ratio declined , reflecting the greater degree of competition as European and Japanese firms began to match US firms for size . |
| 16 | At six months ' duration , the new scheme will be half as long as RTS , reflecting the greater maturity and experience of the staff taking part . |
| 17 | Being in the habit of eating a generous quantity of food — the more you have been eating the greater the initial weight loss impact when you switch to a slimming diet . |
| 18 | Without denying the great efforts made by the local council and others to improve the estate , it is they who chose not to co-operate with police , not the other way round . |
| 19 | This would be just like we ourselves can tell when a dog , or any other animal , is feeling in a dangerous mood without understanding the greater detail of their language . |
| 20 | Perhaps too much has been expected of it : education policy is too weak an instrument for counteracting the great weight of inequality in British society . |
| 21 | IN the office of Jacques Attalli , president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , is a row of Russian matrioshka dolls , representing the great villains of the 20th century — Saddam Hussein , Adolf Hitler , Joseph Stalin , all the way down to a miniature Leonid Brezhnev . |
| 22 | COLIN Young and Ken Bainbridge ( Darlington ) captured the glory at the Shildon indoor open pairs by lifting the title , beating Dean and Chapter 's Bill Maddison and Ken Thompson , representing the Great Aycliffe club , in a great final . |
| 23 | Walking the Great Views |
| 24 | Then I reread the title : ‘ Walking the Great Views ’ . |
| 25 | The latter set about restoring its decrepit but largely unaltered state , uncovering the great stone fireplace in the hall . |
| 26 | In preaching at court he concerned himself not with conduct but with theology , proclaiming and elucidating the great facts of the Christian religion , reflecting and meditating on its joyful mysteries . |
| 27 | The beautiful , richly decorated brick façade of the Town Hall , adjoining the great Church of S. Nicholas , survived ( 533 ) , though badly damaged . |
| 28 | [ Berton ] then learnt that M. Rey was acquiring the greatest reputation in the kingdom by the skill with which he directed [ conduisait ] the main provincial orchestras . |
| 29 | Surveying the great buttress from the door of the CIC hut in 1931 , I suspect grit trained , Lakeland expert and crack climber extraordinaire . |
| 30 | Ion Pacepa , the defecting boss of Securitate , has claimed ( vaingloriously ? ) that 10 million state microphones are embedded in Romanian walls , television sets and ashtrays , enabling the Great Conductor , alias President Nicholae Ceausescu , to eavesdrop on most of his 21 million subjects . |