Example sentences of "[art] great ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Peter the Great 's expansion was not limited to the west and south . |
| 2 | At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 . |
| 3 | Gregory the Great 's decision that English converts to Christianity might continue to use their traditional places of worship provided they were sprinkled with holy water was a revolutionary extension of clerical tolerance , with momentous implications for later missionary activity . |
| 4 | The throne of Ivan the Terrible , the great mechanical clock known as the ‘ Temple of Marvels ’ and Peter the Great 's crown are among the objects loaned for the event . |
| 5 | The drachma is the unofficial currency of southern Albania ; four new 100-drachma coins , pointedly displaying Alexander the Great 's head , and worth $1.90 , are a day 's pay for a labourer there . |
| 6 | The arrival of the atheist Bolsheviks as the new élite merely accentuated the cultural schism between the peasantry and the ruling strata that had existed since Peter the Great 's reign . |
| 7 | Their speciality was tunes like In Sans Souci — to remind Twenties Berliners of that nice Sunday afternoon tram ride they could take out to Frederick the Great 's summer palace at Potsdam — a trip no West Berliner has been able to take for half a century . |
| 8 | This inscription names Athens , Corinth , Thebes and Alexander the Great 's mother Olympias as recipients . |
| 9 | Neither Catherine the Great 's Commission on Popular Schools of 1782 nor the education statutes of 1804 and 1828 nor the foundation of elementary schools by the Ministry of State Properties and the Holy Synod had succeeded to any great extent in promoting the cause of peasant literacy . |
| 10 | Austro-Hungarian foreign policy was both simplified and complicated by her forcible exclusion from Germany in 1866–7 ; this ended a struggle opened by Frederick the Great 's seizure of Silesia . |
| 11 | On paper , they were the most significant addition to the structure of Russian local government since Catherine the Great 's reconstruction of provincial administration in 1775 . |
| 12 | The November itinerary includes stretching subjects such as Catherine the Great 's gluttony for collecting , and the buying power and tastes of superstars and millionaires . |
| 13 | In 323 BC Alexander the Great 's funeral carriage was drawn by 64 mules , and much earlier , around 1000 BC , Homer had extolled mulish virtues . |