Example sentences of "[art] great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The greatest damage to Israel , ’ says Meir Amit , a former head of the intelligence agency , ‘ is that rather than being known as producers in agriculture , in genetics , or in medicine , our trademark is the security business . ’ |
| 2 | Prevalent winds are those which blow with the greatest frequency at any place . |
| 3 | John Evans ( 1990 ) in some research on Australian play times found that by far the greatest percentage of interactions recorded invoked the teacher in an authoritarian role , issuing requests and orders to children . |
| 4 | On a size frequency histogram the size class in which the greatest percentage of grains is represented provides the modal class . |
| 5 | The greatest discovery at the College in the early days was that of mauve , the first aniline dye , by W. H. Perkin in 1856 during an attempt to synthesize quinine . |
| 6 | THE GREATEST DISCOVERY SINCE FIRE |
| 7 | Prospects : Unlikely , as its implications and perils understood ; and , of the four strategies , it would demand the greatest unity at the top . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the greatest injustice to genuine asylum seekers is to be found in the enormously long delays that occur in the processing of applications ? |
| 9 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
| 10 | Her father was the greatest actor-manager since Irving ; she was proud to be taught by him , would as proudly appear in a part which left him , the great Asshe , with no other place for himself than that of Lord Capulet . |
| 11 | Farther on in his dispatch , Haig wrote : ‘ … this unavoidable delay in the development of our offensive was of the greatest service to the enemy . |
| 12 | the greatest problem with the current working of the scheme appears to relate to ‘ re-entry ’ into the Service … |
| 13 | The greatest problem with seeds was to keep them dry and free from rats . |
| 14 | Perhaps the greatest problem with hypnotism concerns man 's ignorance . |
| 15 | The greatest problem at the orientation stage is getting the balance between orientation and more advanced instruction . |
| 16 | The final and the greatest problem of the neurophysiological version of the CTP ( or , indeed , any version of the CTP ) , is that it can not explain the intentionality or ‘ aboutness ’ that connects the neural events with the object they are supposed to be perceptions of . |
| 17 | He links this to the act of consciousness raising , which I consider presents the greatest problem for the insider who can not leave the field or return to academia . |
| 18 | The greatest problem for many elderly people is that relationships tend to dwindle . |
| 19 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 20 | She says I think the greatest problem for me is the mornings — having to work early — starting work at half past seven — there is n't a bus as early as that , leaving from Langford village into Bicester — so normally I have to walk it which takes 20-25 minutes — in the cold , which I absolutely hate ! |
| 21 | Responses differed by sector , availability of finance being seen as the greatest problem in manufacturing , but a much lesser problem than cost in the distribution sector . |
| 22 | When we moved to Scotland I discovered the greatest delicacy of all — the smoked herring , or kipper . |
| 23 | Perhaps the one aristocrat that felt the greatest affinity with his fellow deaf was Lord Carbery , who was born deaf and never spoke in his life . |
| 24 | There is a sense in which the greatest art in conducting is to know when one should not conduct . |
| 25 | When he has been a Christian for three years , we find him , in the pages of his brother 's diary , reading The Epistle to the Romans , the greatest exposition in Scripture of the themes of Original Sin , Grace and Justification by Faith . |
| 26 | Interviewed in Pravda in 1989 , Butenko placed the greatest emphasis upon the emancipation of labour as the goal of socialism . |
| 27 | While this is seen within Total Communication programmes in education , there is no doubt that acceptance of BSL , ASL and so on offers the greatest hope for the development of effective education for deaf children . |
| 28 | The directors may , for instance , make gifts to the employees , but only where this can be regarded as ‘ an inducement to them to exert themselves in future , or as an act done reasonably for the purpose of getting the greatest profit from the business ’ . |
| 29 | I think this branch is chiefly occupied by unhappy Parish children , and may for ought I know , be the greatest nursery for Tyburn of any trade in England . |
| 30 | The extremes of the distribution mark the greatest elevation of 8.8 km above sea level ( Mount Everest ) and the greatest depression at more than 11 km below sea level ( the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean ) . |