Example sentences of "the great [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the greatest blow to the dictates of fashion on women 's dress came with the World War I. Although Laura Ashley had , unconsciously , much in common with the nineteenth-century dress reformers it is ironic that their efforts towards change were entangled inextricably with the organized struggles for the rights of women ; women , to be taken seriously , had to dress in a more robust , sensible manner , they stated — an argument amply demonstrated by their usefulness in wartime . |
| 2 | The outgoing President , Alan García Pérez , described the raid as " the greatest blow against the guerillas in 10 years " . |
| 3 | I hardly know anybody but what does ; the greatest part of the inhabitants do . " |
| 4 | It is an attractive idea but one difficult to prove ; in any case many of the greatest successes of the bivalves have been in life habits that the brachiopods never adopted burrowing and swimming free for example ) . |
| 5 | It is not a treasure that is locked in a bank vault or a glass case ; it is spread about where its influence can be of the greatest benefit among the schools of the West Riding . |
| 6 | The greatest differences between the groups were in understanding the different ideas ( propositions ) in a sentence , in dealing with problems of grammatical unpredictability , and most simply of all , in recognising words . |
| 7 | Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of a systems viewpoint has been to cement the branches of physical geography more closely and therefore to make what Walton ( 1968 ) characterized as the unity of the physical environment a more realistic prospect . |
| 8 | Most mammalian predators are effective hunters of small mammals , hunting mostly at night , and they produce the greatest modifications to the bones of their prey because they use their shearing teeth to break up their prey before ingestion . |
| 9 | Yet of all the leaders of European Social Democracy , Lenin came to show the greatest sensitivity to the issues associated with the oppression of national minorities , and to the need for dominant nationalities to demonstrate their rejection of this oppression . |
| 10 | WHETHER it was Major , Kinnock or Ashdown who made the greatest impression on the viewers , we shall know on Friday morning . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , it does n't make the greatest use of the Windows interface . |
| 12 | At the time they appeared to offer the greatest opportunities for the cities , yet ten years afterwards they appear to reflect a lost age . |
| 13 | The greatest victory for the Sandinistas , he said , was that a new path was opening for the Nicaraguan people without war and where national interests would prevail over interventionist policies . |
| 14 | You see , before he built this garden , part of the greatest city of the Americans sat upon this site . |
| 15 | The good news for everyone is that aerobic walking has the greatest effect around the hips and thighs where fat tends to accumulate , particularly in women . |
| 16 | It is to the great credit of the editors that I would not have known if they had not stated this in the preface . |
| 17 | With the aid of the surgeon 's skills , she has tried to make herself a mixture of the great beauties through the ages . |
| 18 | Her waist looked even smaller with the great spread of the skirts and the blueness of her eyes was more intense than she 'd ever known . |
| 19 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 20 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 21 | The great majority of the girls I taught still thought they were born to serve men . |
| 22 | The Council of Nicaea was the largest assembly of bishops hitherto , and though the great majority of the members were from the Greek East , the presence of Roman legates and the prominent role played by the sees of Alexandria and Antioch made it possible for the council to be given the title ‘ ecumenical ’ . |
| 23 | Indeed the great majority of the members of the English Royal Society were Puritans ( and mainly nonconformist at that ) . |
| 24 | The great majority of the trends identified in the original reports — particularly the rise in men 's domestic work and the steeper rise in the amount of time women are spending in formal work — were confirmed . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the great majority of the letters involved marriage and love problems . |
| 26 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
| 27 | But in the great majority of the parishes it was a complete transformation , from the immemorial landscape of the open fields , with their complex pattern of narrow strips , their winding green balks or cart-roads , their headlands and grassy footpaths , into the modern chequer-board pattern of small , squarish fields , enclosed by hedgerows of hawthorn , with new roads running more or less straight and wide across the parish in all directions . |
| 28 | The great majority of the vessels made were simpler . |
| 29 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 30 | The great majority of the children recovered very quickly after a quarrel and showed no evidence of resentment . |