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 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The aim was to find £600,000 to restore the Great Hall . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Becket may well have been closely involved in building the great walls of packed clay which still enclose the local ‘ innings ’ , or sheep pastures . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Angus , East ( Mr. Welsh ) is merely parading the great terror in front of the farmers for his own purposes . |
| 18 | No , it was nothing to do with being taught the great learning of the world . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In mid-August I made the great mistake of seeking a four-day break from London to stay with friends in France . |
| 21 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Les , 46 , made the great capture using maggots on a size 18 hook fished with a feeder on 3 lb line with 1.5 lb bottom . |
| 24 | They dominated the upper levels of government , controlled much commerce , and owned the great coffee and tea plantations . |
| 25 | Given the great variation that exists in wealth , social organisation and culture in Latin America , it is not easy to find a simple , but also heuristic schema for class analysis , and perhaps for that reason the exercise has not been attempted very often . |
| 26 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 27 | For day time relaxation at the castle , there is a swimming pool which is open from 1 June onwards , but , given the great size of the estate , the occupants of all but apartments Dottore , Giannina and Casa Nuova will need their hire car to reach it . |
| 28 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |
| 29 | ‘ We are sorry the bid was not successful but I am sure that , given the great community spirit here , the fund-raisers will not give up , ’ said Miss Gilroy . |
| 30 | This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it . |