Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] great [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1 How often , in my past life , I had claimed that one of the great benefits the nineteenth century had conferred on the West had been science 's liberation of thought and feeling from organized religion .
2 One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression .
3 In the case of the latter , the last straw in Wilson 's continuing agitation and " one of the greatest blunders the union ever made " , thought Walter Runciman , " was the despotic effort to make the officers and engineers join a union .
4 To be forbidden to speak and write one 's own native tongue is one of the greatest punishments a cruel dictator can inflict upon a proudly independent people : it was one of the Franco regime 's most despicable crimes against humanity .
5 Well one of the greatest qualities a fisherman can have is of course patience .
6 A ‘ Grolier ’ binding is one of the greatest treasures a collector could wish for .
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