Example sentences of "[prep] [art] great [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In athletics , there is a more even spread of influential figures , with political martyr Thommie Smith , who was banned from international competition after his Black Power stand at the Mexico Olympics , influencing the hopes of a great many black kids . |
| 2 | The elder who spoke those words was opposing the idea of an Easter communion , but unwittingly he was revealing the attitude of a great many Scots Protestants towards the Lord 's Supper , the name by which many call communion . |
| 3 | But so , no doubt , is the exercise of a great many other powers which are entrusted to the Secretary of State for the Home Department . |
| 4 | This is possible because , at high stresses the total strain energy in the material will ‘ pay ’ for a great many new surfaces , indeed at the theoretical strength it will ‘ pay ’ for dividing the whole material up into individual sheets of molecules . |
| 5 | And there was no doubt that Kalchu , though younger , had dealt with a great many premature births before this one . |
| 6 | The environment is already a hazy area which overlaps into a great many administrative realms . |
| 7 | The LS series of TTL devices is available from a great many component suppliers but I have listed a few useful CMOS devices as well . |
| 8 | I think that the riders for health project has given us ah a model that can be used in a great many other situations and we 've found here in Lesotho that many other ministries and government departments are interested in what we 're doing because the motorcycles , if used properly , can provide a very cost effective form of transport . |
| 9 | This happened in New England over religious issues ; it was to happen in a great many other places , usually for less solemn reasons , over the next three centuries . |
| 10 | Nowadays such materials exist in a great many chemical varieties and their trade names are legion though ‘ Polythene ’ and ‘ Nylon ‘ , together with ‘ P.V.C. ’ ( polyvinyl chloride ) are probably still the most popular and the best known , at least in this country . |
| 11 | In a great many social systems the only fully legitimate marriages are those in which the bride and bridegroom are not only already kin but kin of a specific category such as , say , that which includes the relationship mother 's brother 's daughter/father 's sister 's son . |
| 12 | Last but certainly not least , all these materials have been expertly edited , and discussed in a great many learned articles , by earlier generations of Continental scholars . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've seen your boyfriend , your Brendan , in a great many shady places . |
| 14 | This level of prescription is valuable in safeguarding electoral procedures from ambiguity but it does mean that even simple changes require complicated amendments to a great many legislative minutiae . |
| 15 | While the adults distinguish between particular predator species within a class and only call to species that are likely to give them trouble , the young vervets give leopard alarm calls in response to a wide variety of terrestrial mammals , the eagle calls in response to a great many different birds and snake alarm calls in response to long thin objects , many of which are not snakes . |
| 16 | Our role , I think , has to be , among a great many other things , to look at the over-all effect of the school curriculum , to ensure that it 's balanced , that it 's cohesive , and that it has an appropriate spread for all children . |