Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [prep] the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is with the greatest pleasure that I wish to throw a large bouquet in their direction . |
| 2 | It is to the great credit of the editors that I would not have known if they had not stated this in the preface . |
| 3 | Unemployment is a tragedy for the unemployed in Britain , just as it is for the greater number of unemployed in France and the United States . |
| 4 | It is of the greatest benefit if this process is approached with love and trust . |
| 5 | It is of the greatest importance for a potential buyer or tenant to assess the potential of a farm before committing himself to it . |
| 6 | Being published , originally , in 1655–73 it is of the greatest importance in connection with ecclesiastical buildings up to that time . |
| 7 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |
| 8 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |
| 9 | There are several ways of accomplishing this , and it is of the greatest importance that you teach the puppy to recognize its bed . |
| 10 | It is of the greatest importance that the suitable accommodation required by the homeless applicant should be provided with the least possible delay . |
| 11 | Yet it is of the greatest importance to make such distinctions within what is normally either an unanalysed category — free cultural association — or at best an indiscriminate range . |