Example sentences of "great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond , in the distance , a great ridge rose high , running from one side of the window to the other . |
| 2 | To east and west lie great ridge systems running north-south with the valley . |
| 3 | Such people can be a great trial and anxiety to their family and friends , but they suffer very badly and may need psychiatric help before recovery takes place . |
| 4 | ‘ It was n't a great trial to us and we did n't sit sobbing in a comer about it , ’ she says although other pupils remember Diana as a ‘ private and controlled ’ teenager who did not wear her emotions on her sleeve . |
| 5 | Lewis and Penney were robbed or at least stopped by some great goalkeeping from Martin Taylor . |
| 6 | In truth the work exhibits great variety , not only in the gestures and postures of the different figures , but in the composition of each subject , besides which it is very interesting to see the various costumes of those times and certain imitations and observations of Nature . |
| 7 | I think you need a great variety of experience to build your work and need to fail as well as succeed sometimes . |
| 8 | There can be great variety within some themes . |
| 9 | However despite the great variety of demi-caractère ballets staged since 1789 there appear to be only three main sources of gesture which contribute to a particular style for a particular ballet . |
| 10 | Was service as an airman in the Middle East and India is graphically described , as are a number of post war assignments of great variety covering a multitude of aircraft from Meteors and Javelins to rocket-assisted Valiants ! |
| 11 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 12 | An implication , of course , is not only that marriage and the family have taken a great variety of forms , but that when political and economic conditions change in the future they will continue to change . |
| 13 | It will be noted that a great variety of difficulty could be introduced here — both in the shape of the symbol and the standard of accuracy that is required in the answer . |
| 14 | Clearly a great variety of difficulty could be introduced into the tests . |
| 15 | The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view . |
| 16 | In these songs , the great variety of cries and moans are repeated over and over in ordered patterns built around a basic unit or syllable that is equivalent to a note in our music . |
| 17 | In the coinage of the early Roman empire , for example , nearly all coins had the emperor 's head on one side , but on the other a great variety of designs were used . |
| 18 | Among the great variety of trailers , an enclave of horse-drawn barrel-top wagons formed a circle , like covered wagons on the prairie awaiting Indian attack . |
| 19 | The resultant strain tends towards symmetry as the crystal grows , so that although snow crystals exhibit great variety of detail , little difficulty arises in their recognition . |
| 20 | Despite the restraints of symmetry in the growth of crystals , a great variety of materials , using different groups of atoms and molecules , become possible . |
| 21 | Széchenyi sponsored a great variety of projects , from the regulation of the Danube to the building of the Chain Bridge , and a general reform of the Hungarian economy . |
| 22 | Six years later the Catalogus Plantarum listed forty three roses and stressed the importance of growing them informally because ‘ being intermix't with flowering trees and shrubs in small wilderness quarters [ they ] afford the most agreeable prospect of any of the Flowering Trees and the great variety of Sorts do continue flowering at least three months . |
| 23 | a great variety of double roses now cultivated in English gardens . |
| 24 | This together with their long continuance in flower , has justly render 'd them the most valuable of all the sorts of flowering shrubs … the great Variety of different Sorts of Roses make a collection of Flowers , either for Basons or in the Garden , without any other additional mixture and their Scent , being the most inoffensive Sweet , is generally esteemed . |
| 25 | There is a great variety of watersports available nearby and a golf course 4 miles away for the more energetic amongst you . |
| 26 | The hotel also has a great variety of light meals/snacks and also has its own TV and video — so there 'll never be a dull moment ! |
| 27 | Thin sections show a great variety of internal structures important in accurate identification . |
| 28 | In the Carboniferous a great variety of forms with highly zig-zag suture lines are a distinctive group of ammonoids usually known as goniatites . |
| 29 | The great variety of form of the hard parts surely shows that trilobites were adapted to a wide range of habitats and life styles . |
| 30 | It is probable that like the mammals the roots of the great variety of living birds are to be found in the Cretaceous , but fossils , which could document this , are only now slowly coming to light . |