Example sentences of "as [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reveres Tagore as the great modern writer of Bengal , but he looks at him disrespectfully , as if he was applying a Brechtian alienation-effect on him . |
| 2 | The French , Italian and Austrian Alps have their spectacles , but they are not presented so conveniently for the the idle downhill skier ( or even non-skier ) as the great set-pieces of the Swiss . |
| 3 | Wally Hammond took over from Hobbs as the Great Man of English cricket . |
| 4 | Ian Botham 's alleged flirtation with cannabis and the occasional female admirer has occupied the popular press far more than his performances as the great all-rounder of English cricket . |
| 5 | Your writers allow their subjects full throttle , letting them shine through the pages as the great characters they have become ( witness Marwood Yeatman , Sheila Kitzinger et al ) . |
| 6 | SOUTH Africa 's State President , Mr FW de Klerk , yesterday suffered the first serious blow to his reputation as the great reformer by appearing to acquiesce in a cover-up of political murders carried out by state agencies , including the police . |
| 7 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 8 | The baleen whales include most of the larger species known as the Great Whales , but represent only 11 of the 77 cetacean species currently recognised . |
| 9 | In 1893 America was ready to see Columbus as the great discoverer , the man who laid the foundations for a nation of bold entrepreneurs . |
| 10 | Accurately enough , the papers portrayed the battle as The Great Lawson v Fowler Row . |
| 11 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
| 12 | Therefore , he was not the genius depicted by Goebbels , and had ‘ intentionally unleashed this world conflagration in order to be proclaimed as the great ‘ transformer of mankind ’ ’ . |
| 13 | It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue . |
| 14 | Its impact drove the strongly pro-English Angus into the Arran-Beaton camp ; his lands lay in the path of oncoming English armies , and the Scottish government could capitalize on this , by appealing to his position as the great man and protector of his locality , reinforcing such sentiments with a pension . |
| 15 | In the name of God , and speaking of the Sultan , not merely as a man , but as the Great Assassin , I say ‘ God damn the Sultan ! ’ |
| 16 | It was John Fleg , one of the Elders of the congregation who had stood , rapt as the great man in the High Churchyard had delivered his thunderous sermon against the Theatre , for all to hear . |
| 17 | We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit … made them . |
| 18 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 19 | This savannah covered huge areas as the great forests of 15 million years ago decreased following global changes in climate . |
| 20 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 21 | ‘ You may see science as the great God we 've all got to worship , but if we do n't see it that way , and not many do , take it from me , you 'll have nothing to do your worshiping with . |
| 22 | Jack reckoned he was known amongst his male friends of that era as the Great Seducer — his own words — but friend-for-life Robert Towne did not quite remember it that way . |
| 23 | As the great Maclean lymphad rounded Ardnamurchan Point to ship oars and sail eastward towards Arivegaig , the men rested in their places , sharpening their weapons , muttering uneasily to each other . |
| 24 | In Hellenistic and Roman times the Chaldeans , as the Babylonians were called , came to be regarded as the great experts in astrology . |
| 25 | Moreover , men such as the great ecclesiastical architect Abbot Suger of St Denis ( c. 1081–1151 ) , who devoted his later years to composing a laudatory life of the French monarch Louis VI ( 1081–1137 ) , effectively a second founder of the Capetian dynasty , wrote history with the object of producing favourable propaganda rather than documentary facts . |
| 26 | The official stayed and , in later years , coined the best metaphor for the Wilson style : Harold as the great player of Space Invaders taking the first blip to cross the screen whether it was important or not . |
| 27 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 28 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 29 | Jesus and other religious leaders came from them , it is claimed , and there is now a spiritual hierarchy on our planet known as the Great White Brotherhood ( white in this case refers to ‘ white magic ’ ) . |
| 30 | Ogilvie Crombie , known as ‘ REX ’ , also acquired this ability , perhaps by living alone in a forest for ten years , and was able to contact nature spirits , including a being identifying as the Great God Pan . |