Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tidal wave of Dancing Brave 's progress up the Longchamp straight to win the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe provided the greatest moment of European Flat racing in the 1980s . |
| 2 | In his opening speech party chairman Aleksandur Lilov declared that factional splits posed the greatest threat to the party 's future . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the anomalous condition produced the greatest number of incorrect lexical decisions ( i.e. NO responses to real words ) . |
| 4 | On 25 February , the Germans gained their greatest triumph of the battle when advance units penetrated the great fort of Douaumont and , finding many of the ill-armed French soldiers asleep through exhaustion , seized the citadel without loss of life . |
| 5 | The food , drink and tobacco industry reported the greatest number of machine injuries with 940 between 1990 and 1991 . |
| 6 | The United States orchestrated the great increase in trade in order to take advantage of its overwhelming postwar strength . |
| 7 | Napoleon simplified the great patchwork quilt of minor German states and principalities , swallowed up a series of Free Cities , abolished a series of Church states and pushed the Germans into modern Europe , whether they liked it or not . |
| 8 | MacArthur emphasised the great importance of preventing the Chinese communists from gaining Taiwan ; this was vital to American policy in the region . |
| 9 | The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful . |
| 10 | This power station construction programme absorbed the greater part of their capital budgets , as well as a good deal of management time both at headquarters and in the divisions . |
| 11 | Adjustment for birth weight had the greatest effect on the perinatal mortality rates due to immaturity : the rate among women who were booked at general practitioner units and were delivered at hospital 1 fell from 3.6 to 1.0 . |
| 12 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 13 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 14 | Tilda eyed the great pipe . |
| 15 | Hope asked the greatest number of questions , 782 , while Tite , who seems to have been anxious to display his professional knowledge as well as counteract Hope 's stylistic bias , was a persistent questioner , with 426 questions . |
| 16 | Peterborough became the great railway and engineering centre that Stamford might well have become . |
| 17 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 18 | So insistent were the Data Protection Committee that the public sector constituted the greater threat that they recommended wholesale registration of all public sector users but only piecemeal or phased registration of private sector users . |
| 19 | North Wales and Wester Ross displayed the greatest community spirit with just on half the farms relying on neighbours . |
| 20 | Was this Sir Ronald 's own change , or is he the victim of some editor who could not resist what H G Wells called the greatest passion ? |
| 21 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |
| 22 | Local people , however , often speak of Dent Town as a reminder of the days when Dent had the greater status . |
| 23 | The average one-third ownership reflected the great pressure there was on the family farmer when a member of the family came home , or on a part-time farmer who was trying to expand with a view to becoming full-time . |
| 24 | This showed that health visitors had the greatest influence on social workers . |
| 25 | When I spoke to him , Hall said the great thing about his show was that he let black artists speak for themselves , in their own voices . |
| 26 | Maggie had the greatest desire to answer in Spanish and confound him , but in the first place she was n't exactly up to it , and secondly she was keeping it under her hat . |
| 27 | However , he recovered , and following the siege of Worcester had the great joy of being able to go and see his friends at Kidderminster once again . |
| 28 | The Dark Elves had the greater number and their allies were fell . |
| 29 | He had a council to advise him on these policy decisions , and he and his council recognized the great similarity between the powers of the assembly and those of the House of Commons in passing laws and imposing new taxes . |
| 30 | Before 1905 the intelligentsia supplied the great majority of these ‘ cadres ’ . |