Example sentences of "of [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The freestanding stable wing , the coachmen and ostlers ’ accommodation , the skittle alley and cobbled yard can be of the greatest interest and yet are very vulnerable to the ubiquitous need , often enforced by the planning authorities , for adequate car parking space . |
| 2 | One of the greatest hazards to a pilot can be his lack of current flying practice . |
| 3 | Perhaps one of the greatest inhibitors of performance is fear or anxiety . |
| 4 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |
| 5 | The naming of a child is a rite of the greatest importance in Judaism . |
| 6 | And the abiding memory of the eighties must be of the greatest achievement , the enormous increase in passenger traffic . |
| 7 | Some of the greatest novels ever written , James 's ‘ great fluid puddings ’ , are hard to make much of in purely aesthetic or formalistic terms . |
| 8 | His unquiet personality could not outface the somnolent arrogance of the greatest city in the world . |
| 9 | Of the greatest player of her day , Jane Austen wrote only that ‘ We were quite satisfied with Mr. Kean , ’ — which may not look so good splashed across the marquee but which is all many of the experts demand : as far as Miss Austen is concerned , he did n't get in the way of the drama . |
| 10 | Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is a classic shell game or , in the words of a veteran congressional official , ‘ one of the greatest evasion schemes ever invented ’ . |
| 11 | Edvard Munch , whom many art historians would describe as one of the greatest print-makers of the century , fails to qualify as ‘ blue-chip ’ , despite occasional high prices at auction , because he often used poor quality paper and the impressions are not always of the best quality . |
| 12 | They are aware of the fact that some of the greatest of their own artists — Hokusai , for instance , and Hiroshige — made print-making a primary creating medium . |
| 13 | The General Sir John French commemorative of 1916 , which the Rose and Crown Hotel in Selby offered its customers at the time , is captioned ‘ Souvenir of the Greatest War in History ’ . |
| 14 | 1993 , 1994 and 1995 will mark the 50th anniversaries of some of the greatest , most notorious battles and victories of this century . |
| 15 | Cornford 's book on some of the greatest Greek drama had as its frontispiece a Punch and Judy show . |
| 16 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 17 | Some of the most important social changes and some of the greatest philanthropists in the last century were in the field of retailing and yet they are not our heroes . |
| 18 | This was the point which was most politically explosive , and this was the point which has been the cause of the greatest revilement of the book to this day . |
| 19 | The physical and mental experience had made us healthier people and proof of the excitement and joy of the trip is that I have now become one of the greatest bores on mountain biking in the Swedish Arctic . |
| 20 | The moral opposition to boxing in the late twentieth century , which is essentially a continuation of an old Nonconformist hostility bolstered by science , is weakened by the popularity of men like Henry Cooper : 'Enry , the Londoner , the decent , gentle bruiser , who almost knocked out one of the greatest heavyweights of all time , but now prospers as a TV celebrity playing golf for charity or advertising deodorants . |
| 21 | Thanks very largely to Lewis , Spenser is now once more regarded as one of the greatest English poets , having sunk into almost total obscurity before The Allegory of Love was written . |
| 22 | The difficulty of getting a worthwhile job is one of the greatest barriers to the successful settlement of refugees in Britain . |
| 23 | There is a formlessness to the films of the period , which becomes most apparent in such big films as Richardson 's The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1968 ) , which culminates in one of the greatest anti-climaxes of cinema history , or Isadora ( 1969 ) , where the dancer 's sublimely silly death offers a decisive , but hardly stirring , conclusion to the film 's chronological narrative of her stormy loves , ideas about dancing and travels through Europe . |
| 24 | Some of the greatest works of art have been produced at the most difficult times . ’ |
| 25 | Last night , there he was again between the sections of The Greatest Story ( Signals , C4 ) , a kind of Michelin guide to the Hindu poem generally said to be 15 times as long as the Bible ; a fact I am not inclined to check . |
| 26 | But this was a world-title fight by two of the greatest world champions and the only contribution from the referee , Richard Steele , was to pull them apart . |
| 27 | The pattern of inheritance of this simple characteristic led the Moravian monk , Gregor Mendel , to one of the greatest insights in biology — character traits were not blended during passage from one generation to another but inherited as separate factors , later called genes . |
| 28 | He was to have to wait until 1987 when , amid great grey curtains of mist and murk , he played one of the greatest of championship courses , Muirfield , by parring every hole in the last round . |
| 29 | She became one of the greatest sportswomen of the century and was stunningly beautiful to boot . |
| 30 | He could have had no idea that Mr Waterhouse was to become one of the greatest civic architects of the north , for in 1856 , when Hinderton Hall was built , he was still at the brink of his career . |