Example sentences of "[prep] [art] great [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic … |
| 2 | The little museum at Isturits shows some of the great many animal bones uncovered there , of bears , reindeer , mammoth and the rest ; as well as examples of the flint , horn and bone weapons and tools which the generations of cave-dwellers made . |
| 3 | A beautiful wilderness area of mountains , rivers and marshes , it is the home of a great many birds and the most southerly station for some of the real Arctic species . |
| 4 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 5 | I used to do the Countess 's hair , and she was pleased with me ; in those days it was a matter of a great many curls , and diamond clasps and the like , on ladies ’ heads . |
| 6 | Recently , experimental work has investigated the use of the programmed technique in what is now called computer-assisted learning , where the programmes are fed into the computer ; the machine can then , if the initial preparation has been thorough enough , monitor the responses of a great many students at a time , switching them to the appropriate branching sequence as their responses demonstrate the need . |
| 7 | This may be true — it is already true of a great many regulations with which companies must comply — but it may also reflect the fundamental nature of financial regulation . |
| 8 | The captive chimpanzee would have no difficulty with mating if its mating behaviour — like that of a great many mammals — were simply triggered by the sense of smell and by hormonal or pheromonal stimulation . |
| 9 | But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different . |
| 10 | This power , above all things should be the unfailing ally of the forces trying to maintain law and order but it has been allowed to become weakened to the point that it is almost non-existent in the mental make-up of a great many people . |
| 11 | He and his wife Ann were unstinting of their time in attending lectures , functions and committees and they won the affection and admiration of a great many people at all levels . |
| 12 | In 1835 de Tocqueville admired ‘ the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object for the exertions of a great many men and inducing them voluntarily to pursue it . ’ |
| 13 | Like a great many others in Tollemarche , he had made it his goal and his God . |
| 14 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 15 | Without explaining to where they were going she walked regally from the room swinging her brief-case which , unlike a great many brief-cases on the streets of Berlin , was filled with notes and papers and not stolen goods . |
| 16 | Whereas sport occupies a somewhat peripheral place in the spectrum of career possibilities for most members of society , it occupies a central berth for a great many blacks . |
| 17 | And being married to David made up for a great many afternoon teas and Women 's Institute meetings . |
| 18 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 19 | I have not yet beckoned to her so that she will come running to me , so that I shall lie with her today and tonight and tomorrow , and for a great many tomorrows . |
| 20 | For a great many others , however , particularly those who made up the largely illiterate and religiously unsophisticated rural masses , it brought insufficient comfort and left them feeling powerless in the face of disaster . |
| 21 | For a great many women artists , Surrealism gave them an invaluable springboard into their own imaginations , but it did not provide an environment in which they could flourish . |
| 22 | There has for a great many years been a link of friendship between the people of lslay , particularly of the Rinns , and Ballycastle in the north of Ireland . |
| 23 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 24 | Starting from the classical theories of elasticity such questions as the prediction of elastic moduli from the inter-atomic forces and the part played by crystal structure and crystal defects have been the subject of research for a great many years . |
| 25 | If a thorough search was made of the ale-house and its out-buildings he would go to prison for a great many years . |
| 26 | The hillside had been quarried for a great many years . |
| 27 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 28 | For a great many people , Europe is fine for business and fine for holidays because the sun shines and the booze is cheap , but Germans are still chaps whom we beat in wars , and the French still let you down and think only of themselves . |
| 29 | ‘ In difficult times like a recession , getting the best value is absolutely crucial for a great many people . |
| 30 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |