Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A keen sportsman , he has several times completed the Great North Run . |
| 2 | No , it was nothing to do with being taught the great learning of the world . |
| 3 | In version ( ii ) , on the other hand , the word ‘ seen ’ is given the greatest prominence , and it is likely to sound as though the speaker has some reservation , or has something further to say : A : Have you seen my father yet ? |
| 4 | Given the great variation that exists in wealth , social organisation and culture in Latin America , it is not easy to find a simple , but also heuristic schema for class analysis , and perhaps for that reason the exercise has not been attempted very often . |
| 5 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 6 | For day time relaxation at the castle , there is a swimming pool which is open from 1 June onwards , but , given the great size of the estate , the occupants of all but apartments Dottore , Giannina and Casa Nuova will need their hire car to reach it . |
| 7 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |
| 8 | ‘ We are sorry the bid was not successful but I am sure that , given the great community spirit here , the fund-raisers will not give up , ’ said Miss Gilroy . |
| 9 | This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it . |
| 10 | Financing buyouts has , however , retained its popularity given the greater security involved in such a deal . |
| 11 | Thus , while marriage was an experience common to women of all classes , there were substantial differences between middle and working class women in terms of first , their realistic expectations of marriage given the greater surplus of women amongst the middle class ( at least prior to World War I ) , second , their experiences of marriage breakdown , and third , their patterns of childbearing within marriage . |
| 12 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 13 | I have noticed that it has always been the acers that have aroused the greatest number of inquiries from readers visiting The Daily Telegraph 's garden at the Chelsea Flower Show ( preparations for this year 's are already advanced , by the way ) . |
| 14 | According to legend , the gods placed the great peak of Gunung Agung on Bali to stop this island paradise rocking — today the 10,400 sturdy feet of mountain rise high above the island and survey the scene of banyan trees , palm groves , bays of soft , pearl-white sand and terraced rice fields which lie at her feet . |
| 15 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 16 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 17 | This may seem perverse at a time when the old industries have shed the greater part of their workforce , and unemployment is pushing towards the three-million mark . |
| 18 | He criticised a manager who has won the greatest honours in the game and has got more knowledge about football than he ever will . |
| 19 | Biotechnology has attracted the greatest attention in the last 3-4 years , despite its very ancient origins , and its potential impact on social life and the economy has been compared with that of the microelectronic processor chip . |
| 20 | This appears to be the case even in youth subcultures where one might have expected the greatest changes . |
| 21 | Here is located the great cavern-temple of the Mother Goddess within which dwells her oracular priestesses . |
| 22 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 23 | Her objective was to acquire Transylvania , and she now at once invaded that country and quickly occupied the greater part of it . |
| 24 | Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables . |
| 25 | These losses all exceed what would be ‘ expected ’ from the areas ' detailed industrial structure ( which would have forecast the greatest rates of decline in Gwent , West Glamorgan and South Yorkshire ) , and the balances can be mapped as ‘ differential shifts ’ ( Figure 5.3B ) . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , her life 's achievements in floral anatomy are considered the greatest effort since the early pioneering work sixty years previously , and her papers continue to be heavily cited . |
| 27 | It was the urban UDA with its mass membership , which , during the general strike , had dominated the greater part of Belfast , the political and industrial capital . |
| 28 | In 1807 the British again returned to Madeira under the command of General Sir William Carr Beresford , who had already won a great reputation whilst still under forty years of age . |
| 29 | Our friend Drummle has won a great prize ! |
| 30 | Recent Conservative governments have stressed a greater concern with commitment to putting policies into practice and getting the job done . |