Example sentences of "[art] great [noun sg] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryan is representative of that traditional kind of Marxism , variously represented by Trotsky or Lukàcs , that regards the great literature and art of the past as a common human inheritance , which should be wrested from the exploiting classes and made available to the whole of humanity . |
| 2 | Through this people God called for resistance to the great rebel and usurper of the world . |
| 3 | Indeed , the vast majority of lines remaining carried record numbers of passengers for peacetime on ordinary working days , the great holiday and excursion tidal waves of traffic of course being history . |
| 4 | Heber Opera have won praise for championing English music theatre , notably in works of Vaughan Williams ; they make their festival debut in the highwayman 's haven of the Great Barn and tavern at Michelham Priory ! |
| 5 | One of the main problems in the discussion of the political economy of soil erosion is that it is difficult for author and reader alike to span the great variety and complexity of circumstances ( both physical and social ) under which soil erosion occurs . |
| 6 | Despite the great romance and drama of the building of the East African ‘ Uganda ’ railway , none of the stations was particularly grand . |
| 7 | Its impact drove the strongly pro-English Angus into the Arran-Beaton camp ; his lands lay in the path of oncoming English armies , and the Scottish government could capitalize on this , by appealing to his position as the great man and protector of his locality , reinforcing such sentiments with a pension . |
| 8 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 9 | er Abraham Lincoln actually supported a constitutional amendment which would guarantee the right of people to own slaves so the idea of Lincoln the great emancipator and friend of black people , it needs to be corrected slightly . |
| 10 | Round the walls of the palace of St John Lateran in Rome , the main residence of the medieval popes , and in the great church or basilica itself , were series of paintings and mosaics that depicted the history of the papacy , an institution that was already very ancient in 1198 when Innocent III became pope . |
| 11 | I am very enthusiastic about the great range and quality of speciality cheeses available in this country . ’ |
| 12 | Head chef Anthony Jones also provides catering for buffets , lunches and cocktail parties within the Great Hall and executive meeting rooms . |
| 13 | And there are few enough references to international hostilities in the novels of Jane Austen , or signs of distress in the great landscape and portrait paintings of the age . |
| 14 | It was not , in fact , a bad educational programme , but it did not have the glamour of Cambridge English , where the idea of criticism was central , as instanced by the great success and influence of Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 15 | He acknowledged the great help and encouragement he received from Mr. John Owen , schoolmaster of Wroxeter free school ( not the famous Puritan of the same name ) . |
| 16 | Rob Beattie Rob Beattie had the great vision and foresight to launch What Personal Computer back in 1989 . |
| 17 | Rob Beattie had the great vision and foresight to launch What Personal Computer back in 1989 . |
| 18 | All round the assembly of brothers waiting and watching with held breath , the great shudder and sigh passed like a gust of wind , or the surging of a wave up the shore , and then , like the shattering of the wave in spray , disintegrated into a whispering , stirring murmur as they shifted , nudged one another , shook with relief and a suggestion of hysterical emotion between laughter and tears . |
| 19 | ( Moses , the great founder and lawgiver of the nation , had a speech impediment which necessitated this . |
| 20 | Eliminate from your mind the great sweep and span of the total subject . |
| 21 | Under the Yorkists it seems to have consisted of the Great Chamber or Hall , for public entertainments , the Chamber itself , and the Bedchamber , consisting of the private apartments . |
| 22 | We must not leave the eighteenth century without mention of the great typefounder and printer of Birmingham , John Baskerville ( 1706–75 ) , who not only designed the famous type that bears his name but greatly improved the general standard of English printing and gave us , in 1763 , one of the most splendid editions of the Bible . |
| 23 | Statistics can be tedious , but these demonstrate dramatically the great power and splendour of Argentine railways . |
| 24 | Oscar 's father , the great oculist and antiquarian Sir William Wilde , loved sharing a bottle of Guinness with his medical colleagues . |
| 25 | Peterborough became the great railway and engineering centre that Stamford might well have become . |
| 26 | I wish to applaud here , publicly , the great strength and courage of our own members who supported their Association in the face of the highest level of intimidation which I have encountered in my twenty seven years in industrial relations . |
| 27 | Born at West Kensington in London in 1929 , Moss started his racing career in Hill Climbs at the age of 17 , before developing into one of the great Endurance and Formula One drivers of the 1950s . |
| 28 | Priscus was a native of the region around Chartres in Gaul and both may have been employed in the construction of the great bath and temple complex . |
| 29 | And then there is underneath the sea bed , which has been very important for the United Kingdom because of the great oil and gas resources which we found and if you had had er more limited erm concepts of the |
| 30 | ‘ In the eighteenth century the city was transformed into a resort for English high society — being particularly associated , of course , with the name of Beau Nash , the great dandy and gamester who lived here during the 1740s and 50s . |