Example sentences of "great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Let us now leave the Great Russians of the Kursk guberniia and move out of the hills to the south of Nikol'skaia volost' .
2 Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues .
3 In the past some craft-trading had been carried on beyond the vicinity , but this and nearly all other economic ties with the Ukraine to the south and their fellow Great Russians to the north had stopped .
4 The author of these words , John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville Skeffington , the thirteenth Viscount Massereene and sixth Viscount Ferrard , became one of the great institutions of the House of Lords , an inveterate campaigner for field sports .
5 What do we get during the Five Nations , which in itself is one of the great institutions of British sport ?
6 Many of the great institutions in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Manchester , Birmingham or Yorkshire — which had in their employ a considerable number of deaf teachers of the deaf — were not even present .
7 We also believe in energy initiatives for insulation and draught-proofing — great programmes for housing .
8 ‘ It was n't a great trial to us and we did n't sit sobbing in a comer about it , ’ she says although other pupils remember Diana as a ‘ private and controlled ’ teenager who did not wear her emotions on her sleeve .
9 Lewis and Penney were robbed or at least stopped by some great goalkeeping from Martin Taylor .
10 I think you need a great variety of experience to build your work and need to fail as well as succeed sometimes .
11 However despite the great variety of demi-caractère ballets staged since 1789 there appear to be only three main sources of gesture which contribute to a particular style for a particular ballet .
12 Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws .
13 An implication , of course , is not only that marriage and the family have taken a great variety of forms , but that when political and economic conditions change in the future they will continue to change .
14 It will be noted that a great variety of difficulty could be introduced here — both in the shape of the symbol and the standard of accuracy that is required in the answer .
15 Clearly a great variety of difficulty could be introduced into the tests .
16 The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view .
17 In these songs , the great variety of cries and moans are repeated over and over in ordered patterns built around a basic unit or syllable that is equivalent to a note in our music .
18 In the coinage of the early Roman empire , for example , nearly all coins had the emperor 's head on one side , but on the other a great variety of designs were used .
19 Among the great variety of trailers , an enclave of horse-drawn barrel-top wagons formed a circle , like covered wagons on the prairie awaiting Indian attack .
20 The resultant strain tends towards symmetry as the crystal grows , so that although snow crystals exhibit great variety of detail , little difficulty arises in their recognition .
21 Despite the restraints of symmetry in the growth of crystals , a great variety of materials , using different groups of atoms and molecules , become possible .
22 Széchenyi sponsored a great variety of projects , from the regulation of the Danube to the building of the Chain Bridge , and a general reform of the Hungarian economy .
23 Six years later the Catalogus Plantarum listed forty three roses and stressed the importance of growing them informally because ‘ being intermix't with flowering trees and shrubs in small wilderness quarters [ they ] afford the most agreeable prospect of any of the Flowering Trees and the great variety of Sorts do continue flowering at least three months .
24 a great variety of double roses now cultivated in English gardens .
25 This together with their long continuance in flower , has justly render 'd them the most valuable of all the sorts of flowering shrubs … the great Variety of different Sorts of Roses make a collection of Flowers , either for Basons or in the Garden , without any other additional mixture and their Scent , being the most inoffensive Sweet , is generally esteemed .
26 There is a great variety of watersports available nearby and a golf course 4 miles away for the more energetic amongst you .
27 The hotel also has a great variety of light meals/snacks and also has its own TV and video — so there 'll never be a dull moment !
28 Thin sections show a great variety of internal structures important in accurate identification .
29 In the Carboniferous a great variety of forms with highly zig-zag suture lines are a distinctive group of ammonoids usually known as goniatites .
30 The great variety of form of the hard parts surely shows that trilobites were adapted to a wide range of habitats and life styles .
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