Example sentences of "[prep] [art] great [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it feels like an extreme observation — and , in parts , not unprescient for the great financial débâcles of the nineteenth and late twentieth centuries — Johnson was also voicing an intellectual 's fashionable enquiry into the lastingness of common interest . |
| 2 | However , the set is too dour for the great outdoor scenes of the forest near Fontainebleau , the courtyard of the Yuste Monastery or the Queen 's garden . |
| 3 | A nostalgia has become apparent , after an era of aggressive atheism , either for the great organized beliefs or for substitutes chiming better with the would-be freer spirit of the times . |
| 4 | More recently another historian , G. W. Trompf in his study The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought , has drawn attention to the prevalence of what he calls ‘ notions of re-enactment ’ in the Old Testament which formed an ideological basis for the great Israelite festivals . |
| 5 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 6 | The climb coincided with a major sporting event in Cairo : a football game between the great rival teams of Zamalek and al-Ahly . |
| 7 | This time , however , it will not be about the great philosophical issues of class warfare and who should run the world ; it will be simply about where students can sit to hear a lecture . |
| 8 | You see , one thing that influenced me was reading about the great American champs and I saw how all the good champs were side-tracked , avoided , yet always seemed to make it late . |
| 9 | One of the most romantic ways of travelling was aboard the great floating palaces , the transatlantic liners , as they sped across the Atlantic to and from New York in the 1920s and '30s . |
| 10 | Through the great Asian railways , Russia created a system that was entirely rail-borne . |
| 11 | Mary went downstairs and wandered through the great empty gardens . |
| 12 | Its prince was to be elected by the Bulgarians , confirmed by Turkey with the assent of the powers , and was to belong to none of the great reigning houses of Europe . |
| 13 | Against Dublin Brolly was a revelation and though he had his critics in the past the Dungiven man came of age in Croke Park with one of the great individual performances . |
| 14 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 15 | During the eighteenth century there were signs of the first rumblings of the tectonic upheaval which shattered the old order in Europe , and from its ruins created a group of nation states out of the submerged nations which lay under the surface of the great multinational empires . |
| 16 | The answer is that his remarkable methods as batsman , bowler and captain made him one of the great sporting entertainers . |
| 17 | Close 's achievement must rank as one of the great sporting upsets of recent years . |
| 18 | So you want to be a boxer ; you want to be a champ ; you want to live one of the great sporting dreams . |
| 19 | Champion jockey Peter Scudamore is on course to break one of the great sporting records of Victorian times . |
| 20 | A New Age in historical interpretation has arrived which is comparable to the pioneering work of the great eighteenth-century antiquarians such as William Stukeley . |
| 21 | Angus Wilson claimed to have read and reread Richardson 's Clarissa , for all its immense bulk , starting at the age of eighteen , admiring above all its triumphant creation of fantasy out of realistic detail — a realism made transcendent — though he also admired the ‘ God 's eye view ’ of the great nineteenth-century novels . |
| 22 | The peoples of these republics — Uzbeks , Kazakhs , Kirgiz , Tajiks and Turkmenis — are the descendants of the great Mongol empires of medieval times and they speak languages that are of Turkic ( or in the case of the Tajiks , Iranian ) origin . |
| 23 | Trinity College boasts many famous playwrights amongst its graduates — Congreve , Farquhar , Goldsmith , Wilde , Beckett — and many more of the great English-language dramatists were Irishmen — Sheridan , Shaw , Boucicault , etc . |
| 24 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 25 | One of the great unanswered questions in the case , is what that investigation has uncovered . |
| 26 | The archbishopric of York was poverty-stricken compared with that of Canterbury , the communities of secular canons characteristic of north-west Mercia could not remotely approach the holdings of the great southern monasteries . |
| 27 | A further limitation , true of charter material generally , is that they deal primarily with southern England , because most survived in the archives of the great southern churches . |
| 28 | Jimmy Wilde — one of the great unsung heroes of Crystal Palace , until today ! |
| 29 | Thus Warltire was very close to making one of the great chemical discoveries of the late eighteenth century , that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen . |
| 30 | The search for better grazing prompted many of the great nomadic outpourings from Central Asia , and as recently as the early 1960s a civil war was fought in what is now Zaire over the control of Katanga 's copper mines . |