Example sentences of "[adv] [art] great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras . |
| 2 | Presumably the great advantage of word-processing , if , if you have the sort of decent printer that you mentioned , is that you could send what appear to be rather personal letters to a whole lot of people rather rapidly erm putting in , for example , at a very elementary level , their individual name , but also coupling together relevant paragraphs erm which would be appropriate to them . |
| 3 | Slowly the great sun through the heaven moves |
| 4 | Slowly the great globe of Chung Kuo turned in space , moving through sunlight and darkness , the blank faces of its continents glistening like ice caps beneath huge swirls of cloud . |
| 5 | To die from a bullet seems to be nothing ; parts of our being remain intact ; but to be dismembered , torn to pieces , reduced to pulp , this is a fear that flesh can not support and which is fundamentally the great suffering of the bombardment … |
| 6 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 7 | Others , such as the fault that let down the great thickness of Mesozoic in Cardigan Bay ( to the west of Wales ) must have been much later , though they served to define basins that were presumably already there . |
| 8 | Fenella , who on Renascia had walked everywhere , found her breath snatched from her as her mount followed Caspar down the great avenue of beeches that guarded Tara and out on to the Tree-fringed high road . |
| 9 | Behold how I lay down the great weight of sorrow I have carried with me so long . |
| 10 | This was obviously the Great Controller In The Sky having a laugh . |
| 11 | Obviously not being aware that there 's er a population of eight billion forecast for the year two thousand and erm obviously with the natural resources of erm gas and coal running out and the , the pollution problems you 've got with coal and obviously the great efficiency of sixty times more efficient than other forms of power . |
| 12 | ‘ Only the Great Lady in the Sky knows that , boy . |
| 13 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 14 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 15 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 16 | It was suddenly a great relief to be able to speak the truth . |
| 17 | Suddenly a great cloud of smoke billowed out from the gun . |
| 18 | ( This had no bearing on the incinerable nature of the occasion ; it was merely a great favourite of us both . ) |
| 19 | Having this on top is a obviously a great shock for them . |
| 20 | Obviously a great thickness of sediment must he heavy and must press down that part of the crust on which it rests , just as the weight of continental ice caused subsidence of the great land masses during the Pleistocene . |
| 21 | erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married . |
| 22 | When Barry came to see me , he was suffering from physical manifestations of what was obviously a great deal of pent-up aggression . |
| 23 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 24 | The open canopy allows light to fall on the ground , so a great variety of plants can grow here . |
| 25 | Like all good scientists , he knew that one should not rush experiments , so a great deal of Italian red wine and a good few Sambucas were consumed before he finally tottered into a taxi and gave the driver ( with some difficulty ) his address . |
| 26 | Also , they come of a class of person frequently on the move from household to household so a great deal of time was wasted by officials seeking to interview relatives who were in fact temporarily with other members of the family in another part of the country , where , of course , the authority I am representing has no jurisdiction . |
| 27 | Shots of unadulterated paradise — images of soft sand , azure skies and palm-fringed beaches can , when they are well done , bring in a great deal of money , yet , all too often , there is something empty about such shots . |
| 28 | It should bring in a great deal of money . ’ |
| 29 | His book Norway , the Northern Playground ( 1903 ) is not only a great story of adventure and exploration , but also a gold-mine of information about the folklore and way of life of the Norwegians in their mountain homes . |
| 30 | She tried to find the right words to explain but discovered only a great disconnection between her brain and her voice , which ensured her silence . |