Example sentences of "[verb] [art] great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becket may well have been closely involved in building the great walls of packed clay which still enclose the local ‘ innings ’ , or sheep pastures . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 5 | It was in the elaboration of its programme rather than in its Parliamentary Opposition or in campaigns in the country , that the Labour Party made the greatest advances in recovering from its collapse . |
| 6 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 7 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 8 | They were the first to study magic and remain the greatest masters of it in the known world . |
| 9 | Many prey upon termites , raiding the great mounds and doing battle with the soldiers . |
| 10 | The tribe sang a song to thank the Great Spirits and everyone thought about what they could offer as a sacrifice . |
| 11 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 12 | This great change in scientific thinking meant little to the masses , but they were able to see the great benefits of modern scientific practice despite the faltering of the economic system . |
| 13 | Now they were too high to see the great waves of the southern Atlantic carry the whales on their singing pilgrimages . |
| 14 | Lewis read the great realists of the past , even of the present , and he sometimes admired them ; but he saw their world as little better than a health-farm , held himself bound by no especial duty to study his own times , and longed for richer fare . |
| 15 | ‘ I do hope Mr Thayer appreciates the great sacrifices you 've made for him . |
| 16 | However , apomixis through pseudogamous agamospermy has been confirmed in a species of Hopea ( Dipterocarpaceae ) and inferred in two of Shorea on the presence of polyembryony or triploidy , e.g. S. macroptera , which is the first of the section to flower , when the pollinator numbers have not yet built up ( see section 6.3 ) and would experience the greatest vicissitudes if dependent on insects . |
| 17 | Some of the people who became the greatest successes in the Bible were the weediest failures in the eyes of other people at the time . |
| 18 | But , debarred from owning land as they were , they became the great craftsmen of these regions , as carpenters , builders , and weavers . |
| 19 | Two balconies face the tubes and plumbing mysteries of the solar heating system ; to enjoy the great views from these you have to stand , or sit on a very , very high chair . |
| 20 | to extract and expound the most ordinary beliefs about the constitution of the world as pictured in the Elizabethan age and through this exposition to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age . |
| 21 | In his Elizabethan World Picture Tillyard proposed the book 's purpose as ‘ to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age ’ . |
| 22 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 23 | Again and again , I hear people say that it is a pity that we who produced the great ideas of the world did not actually manufacture their consequences . |
| 24 | Combine the great cities of Rome , Florence and Venice with each other , or with a resort on the Neapolitan Riviera or the rolling rural countryside of Tuscany and Umbria . |
| 25 | It was wrong , for instance , to treat the great apes as the ancestral form from which humankind had sprung , since the apes would have undergone changes of their own since their ancestors and ours had diverged from a single root . |
| 26 | In contrast , new and expanded towns experienced the greatest declines in growth rate , confirming that the new towns are mostly no longer new nor are they so fertile . |
| 27 | According to theoretical analysis by Crystal and Craig ( 1978 ) , PGSS offers the greatest possibilities for accurately reflecting English . |
| 28 | In such an environment , competitive advantage lies with the organisation that has the richest variety and frequency of interaction with the customer , not because this builds brands awareness , but because it offers the greatest opportunities to identify and to react the events that signal credit demand . |
| 29 | Owner-occupation , in other words , offers the greatest opportunities for the management of self . |
| 30 | The St Lawrence River drains the Great Lakes , and both Canadian and US industries have been pouring toxic wastes into the lake and river system for decades , creating an increasingly lethal environment for the beluga . |