Example sentences of "is [num] [prep] the great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The culmination of all this unseen evolution on the river bed is one of the great phenomena of the English countryside , once seen , never forgotten . |
| 2 | Sitting and relaxing in the sun is one of the great benefits of owning a garden . |
| 3 | What do we get during the Five Nations , which in itself is one of the great institutions of British sport ? |
| 4 | ‘ We ‘ re gon na make sure our album is one of the great albums . ’ |
| 5 | The existence or otherwise of ESP is one of the great mysteries of science , yet very few scientists show any interest in it whatsoever . |
| 6 | The portrait of Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck , aged one year and six months and dated 1834 , is one of the great masterpieces of American Folk Art by Ammi Phillips , long considered to be the single most important naive painter of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Sottomarina is linked by a long bridge , across the lagoon , to the town of Chioggia , ‘ Little Venice ’ , made up of narrow-straight canals and streets , hump-back bridges and colourful houses — it is one of the great wonders of Italy . |
| 8 | Mount St. Augustine is one of the great volcanoes on earth . |
| 9 | Included , from 1961 , are ‘ Look Alive ’ and ‘ Let's Go For a Ride ’ ( Rosenquist is one of the great titlers ‘ Sitting Around Screaming ’ is an all-time favourite ) . |
| 10 | At first the joys of freedom and release will seem more reliable and beneficial , but in ecstasy there is one of the great potentialities of the transcendent for one day we may reach a state of perpetual ecstasy . |
| 11 | He is one of the great popularisers of science , blessed with a fluent , if over-declamatory , style . |
| 12 | ‘ Sawdust ’ , he would say proudly , ‘ is one of the great secrets of my success . |
| 13 | That is one of the great things about the club golfer he is so stoical and resistant to his own poor play . |
| 14 | Why things have mass is one of the great questions ; why things are arranged in generations is one of the others . |
| 15 | But ( one splutters ) surely there is epidemiological evidence that too much Fat is a bad thing , and experimental evidence that saturated fats are more harmful than polyunsaturates , and not even the BIC would deny that butter is one of the great saturates of our time ? |
| 16 | It is one of the great ironies that Bourbon is a dry county . |
| 17 | Indeed , Liberman notes : ‘ Irving Penn is one of the great artists of light . |
| 18 | Indeed , Liberman notes : ‘ Irving Penn is one of the great artists of light . |
| 19 | This , of course , is one of the great advantages of informality , as it provides the opportunity for constant alterations to the garden . |
| 20 | This is one of the great plays of American literature and indeed of modern English-speaking theatre as a whole . |
| 21 | The Cloisters [ in New York City ] is one of the great examples of giving the public a feeling of what the cultural context of a whole era was like through architecture , objects , tapestries , and other great works of art . |
| 22 | It is one of the great examples of European Romanesque art ( PLATES 42 and 52 ) . |
| 23 | Sir John Betjeman wrote ‘ There is no doubt that , inside and out , the parish church of Patrington is one of the great buildings of England . |
| 24 | This is one of the great fascinations of being involved with living things , of discovering that the more one gets to know about natural things , the more there is still to find out . |
| 25 | Explaining the politics of my country , the standing of my country , the relationship of my country to England , to Britain , to Mrs Thatcher is one of the great quagmires facing the Scottish traveller . |
| 26 | ‘ A shot from Charlton , especially if hit on the run from outside the penalty area , is one of the great events of the sport , not because it is rare , which it is not , but because the power of it is massive and it erupts out of elegance , ’ Arthur Hopcraft , who followed Charlton 's career from shy schoolboy to elder statesman , wrote in his classic account of the English game , The Football Man . |
| 27 | It is one of the great virtues of this history of JPL that Clayton Koppes tells us not only about the scientific and technological progress of the laboratory , but also about the financial ( and managerial and political ) aspects . |
| 28 | This is one of the great roles for a black actor ( not that black actors in these days are not eligible to play practically any character in Shakespeare , with the exception of Desdemona ! ) . |
| 29 | These have a long and complex history of development , but no definitive book has yet been written on them — it is one of the great needs for students of the developing landscape . |
| 30 | Zambia Crevecoeur is one of the great minds of our age , whose circumstances prevent hir enlightening knowledge reaching the population . ’ |