Example sentences of "[pers pn] the great [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 2 | As I left the peaceful sleeping village , the mist over the marshes was rising , to show me the great unknown world I was entering . |
| 3 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 5 | It also gives you the greatest possible control over costs , because your fuel , servicing and shop sales are centralised at our service station . |
| 6 | An experimental scientist , on the other hand , arranges matters so that what happens will give him the greatest possible amount of information . |
| 7 | The speaker was an undoubted first-rate man whose achievements make him the greatest British theoretical physicist since Maxwell and one of the great figures of twentieth-century culture . |
| 8 | The Prophets represent the will of the father , Moses , and before him the great Primal Father . |
| 9 | The reader is also invited to ponder which of the two proofs gives him the greater personal satisfaction . |
| 10 | IN THE beginning there was John Mortimer QC , waxing lyrical about the great ideals of the 1945 Labour government and judging that its commitment to the welfare state and social equality made it the greatest this century . |