Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] great [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowhere in modernity has bureaucracy more stifled the cause of human freedom and destroyed a sense of personal identity than in the great central bureaucracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | It is interesting to observe that private capital was more significant both in absolute terms and in relative importance at these provincial levels than in the great urban centres in 1922 . |
| 3 | Because of the great spiritual needs of the people , Mrs. Baxter urged the building of another meeting house in Bloomsbury . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , we should keep the two patterns distinct , first as a matter of proper investigative practice , because the distinction though subtle is real ; second , because in a great many cases it does make a quite easily discernible difference to the interpretation intended and required ; and , third , because it has some quite substantial grammatical consequences . |
| 5 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |