Example sentences of "[prep] [art] great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 2 | So though modem research has tended to discredit the idea of a medieval aristocracy ‘ of service ’ , to insist on blue blood for the great lines of the tenth and eleventh centuries , and to see in the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries an ever-sharper patrilineal descent obliterating other considerations in family history , it should not be forgotten that at least one great princely house was encouraged to view its progress in quite other terms . |
| 3 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 4 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 5 | As for the great merchants , there has been much argument among modern historians about how they were recruited . |
| 6 | But since the political and military access of the Soviet Union to the core Gulf states remained limited , the implementation of Brezhnev 's proposals would have had clearly asymmetric strategic consequences for the Great Powers , to the detriment of the West . |
| 7 | Brezhnev responded with an appeal for the Great Powers to adopt certain norms in relations with Third World states including respect for the status of non-alignment chosen by them and abstention from attempts to draw them into military-political blocs of powers . |
| 8 | Here the King 's exotic evergreens were housed during the winter and plans were made for extensive alterations at Hampton Court and for the great gardens at Blenheim and Longleat . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly he built a solid foundation for the great changes which were to come , and secured the tramway for the future . |
| 10 | It is not the Jacobean Marney Abbey but the actual abbey from whose stones it was built which should become the model for the great houses of Victorian England , because the original abbey — in Disraeli 's view — held its property for the common good . |
| 11 | The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances . |
| 12 | Every king from James I to James V ( though not Mary ) built ; as with the great guns and the great ships , so they managed to find money for the great buildings . |
| 13 | Despite popular laments for the great days of Herbert Morrison and ‘ municipal socialism ’ on the LCC , such Tory bugbears as the Merseyside authority and the Greater London Council disappeared from the scene . |
| 14 | SOME WAYS OF TRAVELLING are synonymous with luxury and romance and evoke nostalgic yearnings for the great days of travel when black tie was de rigueur as the traveller sauntered through Europe and Asia , or crossed the oceans . |
| 15 | There has , however , been some revival of the device , especially with modern private presses affecting a fondness for the past and for the great days of the colophon , beginning with the great Mainz Psalter of Fust and Schoeffer in 1457 . |
| 16 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
| 17 | The agricultural improvements resulting from drainage did open up the possibility of betterment for the small man , as well as for the great landowners . |
| 18 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 19 | Eldest son of the 5th Duke of Montrose , he was educated at Eton where he caught diphtheria during the great floods of 1894 . |
| 20 | During the great epidemics , such as the successive invasions of cholera , there was neither space nor time to bury the dead with decency ; the degradation of human beings continued in death as in life . |
| 21 | But in the Old World , on the whole , the need for a mobile population was met without creating more than a comparatively modest and impermanent floating population , except in the great shipping ports and , as it were , in the traditional centres of the shifting and shiftless population , such as the great cities . |
| 22 | This savannah covered huge areas as the great forests of 15 million years ago decreased following global changes in climate . |
| 23 | Matisse and Picasso are usually regarded as the great artists of the century . |
| 24 | In Hellenistic and Roman times the Chaldeans , as the Babylonians were called , came to be regarded as the great experts in astrology . |
| 25 | At crossroads the gibbets provided plump carrion for the hungry crows and ravens ; landless men turned out of their fields as the great lords changed to tending sheep rather than raising crops . |
| 26 | Walter Cahn 's important Romanesque Manuscripts in 1993 discusses masterpieces of illumination , such as the great Bibles and focuses mainly on paintings with an iconographical interest , while its catalogue details information about format , style , contents and provenance and literature for each manuscript . |
| 27 | Your writers allow their subjects full throttle , letting them shine through the pages as the great characters they have become ( witness Marwood Yeatman , Sheila Kitzinger et al ) . |
| 28 | The baleen whales include most of the larger species known as the Great Whales , but represent only 11 of the 77 cetacean species currently recognised . |
| 29 | The French , Italian and Austrian Alps have their spectacles , but they are not presented so conveniently for the the idle downhill skier ( or even non-skier ) as the great set-pieces of the Swiss . |
| 30 | To his right the ground rose gently towards the southern cliffs and he could see the dark mouth of a concrete pillbox , undemolished since the war , and as seemingly indestructible as the great hulks of wave-battered concrete , remnants of the old fortifications which lay half-submerged in the sand along part of the beach . |