Example sentences of "[noun sg] [num] [prep] the great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
2 | For Hegedus one of the greatest distortions of Marxism was the ideology of centralized and hierarchical state management propounded during the first period of socialist development . |
3 | The Rabbitohs were to contribute to international Rugby League one of the great backs of any era , Clive Churchill , the Little Master , so dazzling there is even a stand named after him at the Sydney Cricket Ground . |
4 | because this is the way one of the great successors of the previous government , leading up to nineteen eighty seven , Margaret Thatcher was getting a very bad press at a time . |
5 | Boulenger was not really ‘ a certain ’ , but at the beginning of this century one of the greatest herpetalogists or ‘ amphibiologists ’ of his time . |
6 | The Agua Caliente Handicap at Tanforan , Mexico , in March 1932 saw the last racecourse appearance of a horse who was beyond dispute one of the greatest horses that ever raced — Phar Lap . |
7 | So there are educational erm resources erm as well as others and in my view one of the great gaps that 's starting er that 's growing and growing in the world is the difference between educational patterns in the more advanced world and that in some parts of what we normally call the Third World . |
8 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |