Example sentences of "of [art] great [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 2 | For sheer daftness there 's no beating the British Tank Malling ( Cannons , Panton Street and Oxford Street , 18 ) which postulates a ludicrously megalomaniac semi-Fascist politico ( Peter Wyngarde ) , backed by criminals , the police , bishops and the judiciary in his attempt to bring moral regeneration to the country , while at the same time feeding the dirty sexual desires of the great and the good who back him . |
| 3 | The next move was to find a chairman from the ranks of the great and the good , someone of acknowledged independence who combined the qualities of Solomon and Job . |
| 4 | No further away than this morning The Times printed an advertisement from 209 of the great and the good who are calling for the legalisation of cannabis . |
| 5 | THE CONTRADICTORY and yet predictable responses of the great and the good to the problem of crime among the young has made depressing reading in the days since the murder of James Bulger . |
| 6 | Its guest-list read like a who 's who of the great and the good . |
| 7 | The effective teacher of history was the person who could elicit clearly the moral messages to be gleaned from studying the lives of the great and the good ; the age demanded that this should be interpreted mainly within an imperial context with the emphasis upon citizenship and service . |
| 8 | Fill in any from a number of entries : an errant Etonian , a curious coffee merchant , a giggling , gallant Grenadier , a would-be vaudevillean , a fervent family man , a cake connoisseur , purveyor of smutty jokes , wireless waffler , acquaintance of the great and the multitude , retailer of unashamed repetition . |