Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] the great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A keen sportsman , he has several times completed the Great North Run . |
| 2 | It 's collected into books called The Great Lovers ' Valentine World Anthology of Love Poetry or whatever . |
| 3 | Thus , while marriage was an experience common to women of all classes , there were substantial differences between middle and working class women in terms of first , their realistic expectations of marriage given the greater surplus of women amongst the middle class ( at least prior to World War I ) , second , their experiences of marriage breakdown , and third , their patterns of childbearing within marriage . |
| 4 | The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own . |
| 5 | The 1988–89 Committee attached the greatest importance to coverage which would give an ‘ unvarnished account ’ of the proceedings of the House . |
| 6 | The curriculum had been debated , if at all , by Local Education Authorities , teachers , and the largely teacher-dominated Schools Council , as well as by the Examination Boards , over which the universities exercised the greatest influence , but never by ministers or the general public . |
| 7 | According to legend , the gods placed the great peak of Gunung Agung on Bali to stop this island paradise rocking — today the 10,400 sturdy feet of mountain rise high above the island and survey the scene of banyan trees , palm groves , bays of soft , pearl-white sand and terraced rice fields which lie at her feet . |
| 8 | Historiography arose when an event occurred which in its magnitude matched the greatest events celebrated in legend . |
| 9 | Further changes required the greatest prudence . |
| 10 | I was there until the end of the first war , what some people called the Great War , anyway , the first war that 'd be ni and I was there until nineteen nineteen . |
| 11 | It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas . |
| 12 | Today 's reading is the first part of an American novel called The Great Gilly Hopkins written by Katherine Paterson . |
| 13 | we will do all we can for , well especially at the centre and while , whilst acknowledging the need for it to resource at the schools at this conference the voluntary agencies , parents and even teachers admitted the greater need for specialists at the centre , that is we want more education psychologists , advisors of all sorts and er , therefore supporting options er at ten , one C , small roman one , and small roman three on the agenda , but er that is reluctantly not er not small roman two . |
| 14 | Precisely next door to this is a restaurant called The Great House . |
| 15 | Financing buyouts has , however , retained its popularity given the greater security involved in such a deal . |