Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] great [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quex Sinclair — also known as ‘ C ’ — was head of M16 , one of the great non-secret secrets of the intelligence machine . |
| 2 | One of the great unanswerable questions of modern fashion must be what Coco Chanel would make of Karl Lagerfeld 's efforts in her name . |
| 3 | Thus Warltire was very close to making one of the great chemical discoveries of the late eighteenth century , that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen . |
| 4 | Chaplin 's non-appearance before the UnAmerican Activities Committee was one of the great lost opportunities of both their careers . |
| 5 | Though I was , having expected one of the great historic documents of planning , bitterly disappointed with the Plan when I first studied it , I now think that in the circumstances Abercrombie did as well as any man , of the type who can survive in planning practice , could have done . |
| 6 | One of the great spiritual writers , Madame Guyon , speaks about ‘ experiencing the depths of Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 7 | This is the first book known to have been written by a woman in English , and is recognised as one of the great spiritual writings . |
| 8 | He is one of the great young talents in America at the moment . |
| 9 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 10 | Then on 21 May , while Gandhi languished in jail , one of the great set pieces of the civil disobedience movement , more successful perhaps than any other in arousing world-wide sympathy with the Indian cause , took place at the Dharsana salt works . |
| 11 | Champion jockey Peter Scudamore is on course to break one of the great sporting records of Victorian times . |
| 12 | Close 's achievement must rank as one of the great sporting upsets of recent years . |
| 13 | The answer is that his remarkable methods as batsman , bowler and captain made him one of the great sporting entertainers . |
| 14 | So you want to be a boxer ; you want to be a champ ; you want to live one of the great sporting dreams . |
| 15 | But it was an adolescent cult on both sides of the Atlantic before the 1950s were out : one of the great fictional bestsellers of the mid-century . |
| 16 | If in fact she had proceeded along a more orthodox path , she could have become one of the great political women of our time . |
| 17 | Amini came from one of the great landowning families of Iran and he had the distinction of serving in the Cabinets of both Mosadeq ( with whom he broke ) and general Zahedi . |
| 18 | Set in the Royal Hunting Park , the Queen 's House is one of the great surviving masterpieces of the seventeenth-century architect , Inigo Jones . |
| 19 | Jimmy Wilde — one of the great unsung heroes of Crystal Palace , until today ! |
| 20 | AS BEFITS one of the great revolutionary years of modern European history , the police were taking no chances with the Strasbourg summiteers yesterday . |
| 21 | The Sierra is one of the great used cars . |
| 22 | ‘ I would n't call Terry Place one of the great criminal minds of our century , ’ said Inspector Lane . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're doing it because it 's one of the great modern musicals … . |
| 24 | The first volume of what must eventually be one of the great modern biographies , John Richardson 's book was published last year and has now appeared in paperback . |
| 25 | Against Dublin Brolly was a revelation and though he had his critics in the past the Dungiven man came of age in Croke Park with one of the great individual performances . |
| 26 | Prof MANOLIS ANDRONIKOS , the Greek archaeologist who has died at Salonika aged 72 , made one of the great archaeological discoveries of the century when in 1977 he found the tomb of King Philip II of Macedon , the warrior father of Alexander the Great . |
| 27 | Yet in the face of almost every conceivable difficulty widespread and bitter popular hostility to the whole idea of naval development , the need to import from abroad officers and technicians of all kinds , the surrender of Azov and consequent loss of the Black Sea fleet in 1711 ( see pp. 271–2 ) — Peter I had by his death in 1725 made Russia one of the great naval powers of Europe . |
| 28 | The Guardian was controlled by a family trust , dominated by relations of the formidable owner-editor ( and sometime MP ) C P Scott , one of the great Liberal voices of British journalism for half a century into the 1920s . |
| 29 | This was no less than , politically speaking , one of the great strategic withdrawals of history . |
| 30 | A pity , perhaps , but then attempting to stay a step ahead is one of the great motivating factors in the sport , is n't it ? |