Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Britain probably made the greatest contribution in literature and science , Germany certainly in music , while in the late nineteenth century , France dominated the world of painting . |
| 6 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 7 | Primitive Methodists made the greatest strides of all : the number of their ministers without any college training fell by 60 per cent while the number with , rose by 59 per cent . |
| 8 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 9 | Two-digit inflation was a great boost to buying on credit , and buying a house on credit made the greatest sense of all because inflation ensured that the capital value of your house increased while your repayments took a gradually smaller percentage of your income . |
| 10 | WHETHER it was Major , Kinnock or Ashdown who made the greatest impression on the viewers , we shall know on Friday morning . |
| 11 | Miss Gracie Fields was the visiting star whose War Bond show made the greatest impression on Canadian listeners . |
| 12 | Establishments in public administration ( particularly in education ) made the greatest use of fixed-term contract workers — 39 per cent did so — and the least use of agency workers — eight per cent did so [ see Tables 3.1–2 ] . |
| 13 | It was in the elaboration of its programme rather than in its Parliamentary Opposition or in campaigns in the country , that the Labour Party made the greatest advances in recovering from its collapse . |
| 14 | In spite of the more sophisticated pleasures of town life the period spent at Number Five made the greater impression on us and provided the picture of Lewis that we shall always retain . |
| 15 | In mid-August I made the great mistake of seeking a four-day break from London to stay with friends in France . |
| 16 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 20 | They dominated the upper levels of government , controlled much commerce , and owned the great coffee and tea plantations . |
| 21 | On 25 February , the Germans gained their greatest triumph of the battle when advance units penetrated the great fort of Douaumont and , finding many of the ill-armed French soldiers asleep through exhaustion , seized the citadel without loss of life . |
| 22 | Indeed , Emile Burns ' survey of the councils of action , after the dispute , revealed the great extent to which they were badly organized and the degree to which in Middlesborough , for instance , ‘ each trade acted on its own ’ . |
| 23 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 24 | Lewis read the great realists of the past , even of the present , and he sometimes admired them ; but he saw their world as little better than a health-farm , held himself bound by no especial duty to study his own times , and longed for richer fare . |
| 25 | It was built for Václav Vojtěch Sternberg , who also commissioned the great Troja Palace as his country house ( see p. 194 ) . |
| 26 | Some of the people who became the greatest successes in the Bible were the weediest failures in the eyes of other people at the time . |
| 27 | Standing a little over five feet tall , Tazio Nuvolari became the greatest driver of his era . |
| 28 | He needed an able team of allies during his rise , but they became the greatest threat to his predominance after the mid-1970s . |
| 29 | Others suggest that the first Hereford ancestor was a cow called Silver who , with her calf , was bequeathed to Benjamin Tomkins by his father Richard in 1720 , and indeed Benjamin 's son , Benjamin the younger , became the great improver of the breed in the 1760s . |
| 30 | It became the Great Depression as successive waves of bank failures rolled over America 's monetary system . |