Example sentences of "the great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | THE greatest survey ever into sexual habits reveals that the Great Aids Scare never became the nightmare that was feared . |
2 | ‘ The greatest damage to Israel , ’ says Meir Amit , a former head of the intelligence agency , ‘ is that rather than being known as producers in agriculture , in genetics , or in medicine , our trademark is the security business . ’ |
3 | Apart from the landless Andeans , the greatest damage was done by cattle ranchers whose clearance of one acre of rainforest would support 0.4 of one cow . |
4 | They know that the greatest damage would be done to this economy by raising taxes , by imposing a minimum wage and by restoring artificial trade union powers . |
5 | The situation was brought about by a combination of factors , with two in particular causing us the greatest damage : the postponement of the Registers of Land that might have been subject to contaminative use , and the fall in construction activity . |
6 | It seems to have been the tenth raid which did the greatest damage , when the ‘ sea island , with its H-jetty was hit and a Korean tanker loading there set on fire . |
7 | Smith expressed his typically extreme view that the appointment of Coleman was the greatest calamity the veterinary profession ever experienced . |
8 | Prevalent winds are those which blow with the greatest frequency at any place . |
9 | John Evans ( 1990 ) in some research on Australian play times found that by far the greatest percentage of interactions recorded invoked the teacher in an authoritarian role , issuing requests and orders to children . |
10 | What is the greatest percentage you find ? |
11 | As a result , all pensioners gained a 20 per cent increase in their basic old-age pensions , but , for obvious reasons , poorer pensioners experienced the greatest percentage increase in their real pensions . |
12 | In 1981 Welwyn possessed the largest proportion of older working people out of all the LLMAs in Britain , while Stevenage , Thetford and Bracknell headed the list of LLMAs with the greatest percentage increases in elderly numbers over the previous decade ( Champion et al . , |
13 | Due to losses in manufacturing , utilities , transport and communication , job reductions occurred in 38 of the 66 counties , with some of the greatest percentage reductions in counties affected by changes in the coal , shipbuilding and steel industries . |
14 | On a size frequency histogram the size class in which the greatest percentage of grains is represented provides the modal class . |
15 | THE GREATEST DISCOVERY SINCE FIRE |
16 | The greatest discovery at the College in the early days was that of mauve , the first aniline dye , by W. H. Perkin in 1856 during an attempt to synthesize quinine . |
17 | Again , he failed to appreciate that the conspicuous consumption which was the fruit of successful emulation was not as invariably absurd as he made out , or that in the course of history world-wide they were responsible for the greatest architecture and other manifestations of high art . |
18 | Some of the greatest guitar songs have been the riff songs , so I immediately thought of Paul Rogers . |
19 | The Local Management of Schools was due to be introduced from 1990 and the Conservative group in had the foresight to see that if the scheme was given a fair wind , and the full support of the Council , it would come to be recognised as one of the greatest reforms of education . |
20 | Prospects : Unlikely , as its implications and perils understood ; and , of the four strategies , it would demand the greatest unity at the top . |
21 | Unfortunately , in the year 1880 , what came to be viewed as the greatest injustice ever to be perpetrated against deaf people occurred in September when the highly-misleading International Congress of Teachers of Deaf-Mutes was convened in Milan , Italy . |
22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the greatest injustice to genuine asylum seekers is to be found in the enormously long delays that occur in the processing of applications ? |
23 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
24 | If one man was likely to emulate Surtees ' success it was Mike Hailwood , widely acknowledged as the greatest bike rider of all time . |
25 | Her father was the greatest actor-manager since Irving ; she was proud to be taught by him , would as proudly appear in a part which left him , the great Asshe , with no other place for himself than that of Lord Capulet . |
26 | Just in so far as we cause the Government to persecute those who believe in peace , so we may be doing the greatest service … to stimulate the national consciousness in [ the ] direction [ of peace ] . ’ |
27 | Farther on in his dispatch , Haig wrote : ‘ … this unavoidable delay in the development of our offensive was of the greatest service to the enemy . |
28 | As the days slid by , the Cruithin became a little less elusive , and Grainne waited , because she knew that to befriend them , to lead them back into Ireland , would be the greatest service she could render her people . |
29 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the greatest service he can continue to do for the British public is to keep inflation below 5 per cent ? |
30 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |