Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] great [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little museum at Isturits shows some of the great many animal bones uncovered there , of bears , reindeer , mammoth and the rest ; as well as examples of the flint , horn and bone weapons and tools which the generations of cave-dwellers made . |
| 2 | The captive chimpanzee would have no difficulty with mating if its mating behaviour — like that of a great many mammals — were simply triggered by the sense of smell and by hormonal or pheromonal stimulation . |
| 3 | ‘ In difficult times like a recession , getting the best value is absolutely crucial for a great many people . |
| 4 | Professional markers are a superb sketching medium , adaptable to a great many styles and very fast to use . |
| 5 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 6 | Generally , though , the heirs are not identified ; in any case such entries are sporadic except in Cornwall , where the Celtic custom of partible inheritance caused them to be widespread , and incidentally obliterates the trail of the persons concerned in a great many cases . |
| 7 | It would appear , from more recent studies , that food additives are important in a great many children with hyperkinetic syndrome , but that it is unusual to find a child for whom additives are the sole problem . |
| 8 | These are important to a great many people , whether they are perceived in terms of localised effects impinging on their everyday lives or in terms of the national picture which emerges from news media coverage and wider reading . |
| 9 | It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic … |
| 10 | The treatment of diarrhoeal diseases therefore forms a subject which is relevant to a great many people throughout the world . |
| 11 | This may be true — it is already true of a great many regulations with which companies must comply — but it may also reflect the fundamental nature of financial regulation . |
| 12 | But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different . |
| 13 | He was well aware of the anthropomorphism and indeed found it satisfying ; it was as though , in the Britches , thigh-deep in lashing nettle and octopus strands of clutching bramble he was coming to grips at last with a great many things and , as often as not , getting the upper hand . |