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Example sentences of "[adv] great [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1	With the proliferation of puritan sects during the 1640s and 1650s , there was so great a range of extreme demands , from the nationalization of land to the emancipation of women , that it would be surprising if the natural philosophers had not begun to appear as moderates .
2	Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' .
3	To devolve responsibility for the kind of social services we currently enjoy to a mass of informal , ill-organised groups and organisations would constitute so great a dismantling of the personal social services system as to leave its functions solely to hidden providers of informal care .
4	Wooed from being European marketing director of Coca-Cola , Hogan was then , and remains now , the architect of FI 'S promotional side , if only because Marlboro controls so great a proportion of the FI budget : through direct sponsorship of its teams , through individual contracts with drivers , through sponsorship of races , through general advertising , through supporting the press , through the general glamorizing of the sport .
5	A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses .
6	During the hundred fifty years in question , there was so great a diversity of views about nature that , on closer inspection , it becomes difficult to achieve a succinct characterization .
7	In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries .
8	Mark Steyn , whose confidence in his wit is so great no amount of evidence to the contrary seems ever likely to shake it , took us on a tour of the National Humour Archive , complete with the Dawson Bequest , and a person at work on the wider socio-economic effects of Essex Girl jokes .
9	Nevertheless , Chapman remained convinced that Leeds would become ‘ as great a centre of Association Football as any city in England ’ .
10	The New Forest will be given a statutory status which will give it as great a level of protection as any National Park .
11	It is assumed that there will be no need for as great a level of close supervision and scrutiny as that required at lower levels , and that successful candidates will , apart from occasional stylistic errors and slips , be able to carry out successfully all the linguistic tasks and employer might set .
12	The effect of the 1979 Act and subsequent case law is that arbitration awards have almost as great a degree of finality as experts ' decisions , and so Megaw LJ 's argument is no longer available .
13	BELVILLE : I hope , Lady Davers , she can make as great a convert of you from pride as she has of me from libertinism .
14	But , to repeat the question , how great a level of luck , how much of a miracle , are we allowed to postulate ?
15	How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan 's with mica .
16	Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him .
17	And we see in a wonderful way how great the compassion of Jesus was , and is in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost .
18	Nor did the Allies appreciate how great the loss of life would inevitably be , underequipped as Russia was .
19	This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly .
20	To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting ; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation .
21	It was his belief that too great a degree of inequality within a society would prevent a common will or common interest from developing , and that is surely correct .
22	An excess of meats and spices cause aggression while too great a consumption of dairy foods and those with a high fat content may bring about depressive tendencies and lethargy .
23	There is a danger in indulging in too great a diversity of material and outlook and , as biogeographers have been few in number , diversity could lead to the continuing omission of the study of the impact of human activity .
24	It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn .
25	Thus in a case where the ‘ principles of good forestry ’ dictate that felling should take place , and would result in too great a sacrifice of amenity , the owner can claim compensation for the loss which he suffers .
26	And the conviction refers to an ultimately retrogressive form of co-operation : retrogressive because it requires too great a suppression of individuality , too great a forfeiture of a life of one 's own ; and hence , justifiable only by sheer necessity .
27	And anyway , there will be enough public opinion in line with mine and Mike 's here ’ — he threw a brilliant smile at Mike — ‘ to protect us from too great a loss of circulation .
28	That would constitute too great a loss of face .
29	At high temperatures , the spaces between the solvent molecules have to be reduced if mixing is to take place and when this eventually results in too great a loss of entropy , phase separation occurs .
30	From the other flank , Michael Foot thought plans for reform gave too great a power of patronage to the prime minister and mocked the very idea of a representative democracy .