Example sentences of "[vb infin] the great [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler 's policy was clever : to keep Romania and Hungary in competition with each other to see which could make the greater territorial gains . |
| 2 | To the followers of the ‘ classical economists ’ , who argued that the industrialized state would make the greatest possible contribution to public welfare if competition were to remain unshackled , the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the present day has been marked by increasing government interference with the economy . |
| 3 | Therefore it seems that the EGF concentration in the cells does not explain the greater carcinogenic potential of mucosa with high grade dysplasia . |
| 4 | After examining an iron age metal object , pupils could investigate and discuss the great social and economic changes that the discovery of metal must have entailed . |
| 5 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 6 | But the question is where will it do the greatest good … in Bosnia where it may not reach the people it 's meant for , or in Croatia where it probably will . |
| 7 | I did n't see the great walled city of Chanchán , only the mist and rain , the blur of the headlights and the windscreen wipers clicking endlessly across my vision . |
| 8 | One day , inspired by the balmy weather , I decided to go and see the great onion-domed tomb of Safdarjung , the last really great Mughal building to be built in India . |
| 9 | It was no more than three hundred yards distant , and he could see the great flattened scimitars of its horns swaying above the grass as it advanced , scenting the breeze at every step . |
| 10 | Only then did they see the great livid gashes that no man could have inflicted raked along both Ranks . |
| 11 | I could see the great livid weals of scars running across the small of her back and down her mighty thighs . |
| 12 | Look , I 've brought you , now you can , now you can see the great big tree stuck under the bridge . |
| 13 | Our line would follow the Great Triangular Icefield , a feature angled at about 50 degrees , dotted with ice cliffs here and there , to its apex 1500 feet higher . |
| 14 | For this purpose , the work done by the spectrographs , which are less affected by the mirror than are the cameras , is not particularly useful , though it may well provide the greatest scientific interest for some time to come . |
| 15 | The construction of the rail-over bridge , north of Greengate Lane between Leicester North and Rothley , will provide the Great Central Railway with compensation , which is to be put towards the run-round facilities at Rothley . |
| 16 | Now , I see you have the great inner secret , too . |
| 17 | Thus it seems that the only understanding that the persons in the original position can reach is that everyone should have the greatest equal liberty consistent with a similar liberty for others . |
| 18 | In order to be as free as possible , that my will have the greatest possible range consistent with the similar will of others , it is necessary that there be a way in which I may commit myself … . |
| 19 | Perhaps Ron did not have the greatest technical ability , but his commitment was never questioned and he could play pretty effectively on either flank so that he was therefore a useful defender . |
| 20 | The poll also asked which of six technologies would have the greatest practical impact on the respondent 's company in the next five years . |
| 21 | Morvael appoints Mentheus of Caledor as his general and introduces the levy system of mandatory universal military service that will eventually produce the great citizen-soldier armies of Ulthuan . |
| 22 | It is here that any given expenditure will produce the greatest environmental benefit . |
| 23 | THE CONSTRUCTION of a new Leicester By-Pass , connecting the A6 Loughborough road to the A50 , will cut the Great Central Railway line to Leicester North for a two-month period . |
| 24 | It is not an argument over which of the two screening strategies will confer the greater medical benefit . |
| 25 | " My kingdom is not of this world " was not regarded as releasing the pope from an active role in government , though it did express the great moral fervour that fuelled the late eleventh- and early twelfth-century reforms — especially in the attack on clerical marriage and in the drive to rid the Church of unchaste priests and to control the proprietary church system ( secular theocracy ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Just because I happen to be President of this company I do n't play the Great White Chief , ’ he was fond of saying . |
| 27 | Such indices should indicate those stages where the use of robotic-techniques would offer the greatest potential savings and improvements in productivity . |
| 28 | The time and expense involved in manufacturing some of the more individualistic pieces of metalwork may ultimately reflect the greater social standing of their users , and this must be appreciated when considering the controls over their distribution pattern . |
| 29 | The fact that D'Oyly 's aristocratic informant said that the washermen should be paid for their service with money ( ridi ) may simply reflect the greater social distance which separated the aristocrats from the Hena , or it could be that , at that date , the distinction between commercial and non-commercial economic transactions had not yet become so clear-cut as it is today . |
| 30 | There are many hill towns to explore including Abruzzo 's capital ‘ L ’ Aquila , where you may visit the great Spanish castle and a national museum . |