Example sentences of "was [num] [prep] the great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the Norman Conquest in 1066 there was one of the greatest reorganisations of estates this country has ever seen . |
| 2 | Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 30 April 1777 — 23 February 1855 ) Gauss , called by his contemporaries the Prince of Mathematicians , was one of the greatest scientists ever . |
| 3 | On my first day at the university I met my teacher , Professor Waldman , who was one of the greatest scientists in the world . |
| 4 | But in general Boniface was one of the greatest exponents of a high view of metropolitan and episcopal power which would confront the reformers who asserted papal authority in the eleventh century . |
| 5 | What 's in the Box ? was one of the greatest successes of 1953 , and in 1960 Steen 's purchase of the King 's Theatre off Shaftesbury Avenue heralded a string of commercial triumphs , including One Thing After Another , which ran for three years , and , currently , Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other . |
| 6 | As the Cotswolds specialised in the production of fine wool , and Cirencester was one of the greatest marts in the land , strategically sited to serve both the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire manufacturing districts , with lesser centres at Chipping Campden and Northleach , the balance might have become decisively tilted towards sheep . |
| 7 | Author of The dream of Gerontius and the famous Apologia , Newman was one of the greatest champions of Catholicism and there are many campaigning for his canonization . |
| 8 | He was one of the greatest benefactors of the British Museum and devoted much wealth and time to the pursuit of science . |
| 9 | Having said that , not saying George Best was one of the greatest players in the world , would be similar to denying Maradona or Cruyff that status . |
| 10 | It was one of the greatest feasts of his reign . |
| 11 | One of many speakers on the subject of drugs , President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia said that drug trafficking fuelled terrorism and was one of the greatest threats to democracy in Latin America , adding that " every weapon in the war against narcotics pales into insignificance compared to the need to reduce demand " . |
| 12 | He was one of the greatest physicists there has ever been ; we have already met his work on gases , with its statistical basis , but his most important research was that in which he took up Faraday 's discoveries , giving the lines of force a mathematical expression . |
| 13 | The Frenchman Pierre de Fermat ( 1601–65 ) was one of the greatest mathematicians ever to have lived : his contributions are too many to mention . |
| 14 | ‘ Just to be told I 've won a million was one of the greatest thrills of my life . |
| 15 | He 'd tell you he was one of the greatest wrestlers , fliers , skiers . |
| 16 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 17 | He cuts an enigmatic and sympathetic figure : a recluse who would go around his palace incognito dressed as a groom ; a man who had his future foretold by Nostradamus ; who employed the English occultists , Dee and Kelley ; who dabbled in magic and yet was one of the greatest patrons of the Renaissance in Europe . |
| 18 | Jean Grolier , Vicomte d'Aiguisy ( 1479–1565 ) was one of the greatest patrons of fine bindings the world has known . |
| 19 | Alessandro Farnese ( 1520–89 ) was one of the greatest patrons of the Italian Renaissance . |
| 20 | I have stressed this aspect of Roman social life , because it appears from the surviving literary and archaeological evidence that the entertainment of friends at home was one of the greatest pleasures during the Empire . |
| 21 | Ackroyd was one of the greatest gossips in London . |
| 22 | LINFORD Christie 's marvellous achievement in taking the sprint gold was one of the great moments in British sport . |
| 23 | The idea that the appearance of amour courtois in late eleventh-century Aquitaine was one of the great moments in the history of mankind was most powerfully expressed by C. S. Lewis in The Allegory of Love . |
| 24 | There is a good reason for this : with any luck , they will never be back there again , unless it was one of the great departments like the Treasury , Defence and the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking . |
| 26 | When children go into the countryside and visit farms , they will see that the conditions are completely different from those that their fathers may have seen when they worked on farms during their holidays — that was one of the great traditions of United Kingdom cities . |
| 27 | That retinue was one of the great affinities of the Middle Ages , both in scale and cohesion . |
| 28 | That retinue was one of the great affinities of the Middle Ages , both in scale and cohesion . |
| 29 | DAVID KING , ‘ King of the Castle ’ , was one of the great authorities on the medieval castle and author of a definitive catalogue of all castles built in England and Wales . |
| 30 | A. W. Simpson was one of the great ones . |