Example sentences of "[verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I met the great sculptor once , you know , when I was hiding from the Doge of Venice 's assassins . |
| 2 | Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale . |
| 3 | To some extent , it means allowing the Great Mother archetype to flourish within ourselves . |
| 4 | Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ? |
| 5 | A keen sportsman , he has several times completed the Great North Run . |
| 6 | Police have called in professional shark hunters in a bid to kill the great white . |
| 7 | At Cologne we turned for home , circling the great cathedral at what felt like an angle of forty five degrees . |
| 8 | It is the solution that offers the best balance between advantages and disadvantages — the animals gain the greatest degree of mutual protection from predators whilst sacrificing the least in terms of their ability to find food in the inhospitable terrain . |
| 9 | It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed . |
| 10 | Japan records the greatest life expectancy for both males and females . |
| 11 | B. S. Johnson 's collection of memoirs records the great variety in the treatment meted out by hosts — from kindness and generosity to unimaginable cruelty — and how , above all , the behaviour of inner-city children that so horrified Women 's Institute moralisers was frequently a natural and adaptive response to the emotional trauma of family separation and to the strangeness of country life . |
| 12 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 13 | The aim was to find £600,000 to restore the Great Hall . |
| 14 | The Corinthias celebrated the fall of the Bacchiad tyrants in the sixth century by building the great temple of Apollo — and also by reorganizing and strengthening their tribal system . |
| 15 | As an architect he was sent from Durham in 1364 to Coldingham priory , a Scottish dependency , and in 1367–74 had charge of building the great kitchen of Durham priory , with its remarkable vault of Spanish inspiration . |
| 16 | Becket may well have been closely involved in building the great walls of packed clay which still enclose the local ‘ innings ’ , or sheep pastures . |
| 17 | Competition among the owners of a particular resource may tend to force its price downwards ; those owners for whom its sale involves the greater sacrifices will tend to drop out of the race as the falling price makes it worthwhile for them to sell only fewer and fewer units of the resource . |
| 18 | The background to this debate , and clearly the cause of this debate , involves the great change — or different kinds of change — taking place across the continent of Europe and within the European Community . |
| 19 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 20 | When the charter to Maryland sought by George Calvert passed the Great Seal on 20 June 1632 Cecil Calvert was named the grantee , since his father had died earlier in the year . |
| 21 | The areas which display the greatest success in acquiring valuables are also those that first develop leadership by birth . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Angus , East ( Mr. Welsh ) is merely parading the great terror in front of the farmers for his own purposes . |
| 23 | No , it was nothing to do with being taught the great learning of the world . |
| 24 | An instance of the mentality of these activists can be seen in a letter to the autumn number of the magazine from Malcolm Shifrin , who asks how he can influence the great majority of members who do not vote . |
| 25 | Bill Fraser , accompanied by Sergeants Tait and DuVivier and Privates Byrne and Phillips , arrived back at Jalo four days after the others , able to claim the greatest success . |
| 26 | Britain probably made the greatest contribution in literature and science , Germany certainly in music , while in the late nineteenth century , France dominated the world of painting . |
| 27 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 28 | Primitive Methodists made the greatest strides of all : the number of their ministers without any college training fell by 60 per cent while the number with , rose by 59 per cent . |
| 29 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 30 | Two-digit inflation was a great boost to buying on credit , and buying a house on credit made the greatest sense of all because inflation ensured that the capital value of your house increased while your repayments took a gradually smaller percentage of your income . |