Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the latter then perhaps we are seeing a reduction in the distrust women have for the police in relation to their handling of rape , or maybe the greater ability of women to withstand the trauma of carrying through a complaint of rape . |
| 2 | American stations in fact illustrated better than anywhere the great dichotomy between social theory and practice in the United States . |
| 3 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |
| 4 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 5 | Thomas Bewick of Newcastle was the pioneer and perhaps the greatest exponent of this art ; his History of British Birds of 1797–1804 was a splendid example of what could be done , although his text was of no scientific significance . |
| 6 | Obviously not being aware that there 's er a population of eight billion forecast for the year two thousand and erm obviously with the natural resources of erm gas and coal running out and the , the pollution problems you 've got with coal and obviously the great efficiency of sixty times more efficient than other forms of power . |
| 7 | Only one in five teachers believe that they have and much the greater proportion of these are scale 3 teachers and above . |
| 8 | Against these drawbacks , however , must be weighed the greater professionalism of teachers on the French model , and thus the greater respect they may be accorded by pupils and parents . |
| 9 | Mr Frizzell , before the unfortunate episode with Betty , had been prevailed upon to donate four old , though still serviceable , tyres ; and finally the great day arrived when he backed it slowly out of the garage and drove it round to his own home in the vague hope that his mother might like to see it . |
| 10 | Miners also remembered bitterly and deeply the Great Depression from which the country was only just emerging . |
| 11 | Back in the city there were thousand of people doomed , dying and all unnecessarily because here was plenty , here was sufficient for the whole city and possibly the greatest sin that you and I can be guilty of and that the church is generally guilty of , but you know when we talk about the church generally its , its so easy because that 's general , you and I that are the church , not the denomination , not the organization , it you and I , possibly the greatest sin that we can be guilty of is the sin of silence , I 'm not talking now about a rude , belligerent , discourteous , butting hole , button holding of people , I 'm not talking about that , I do n't see any place in gods word for that sort of attitude or that sort of approach but are we still silent , what about with those with whom we have the right , because we 've created a relationship , because they know us and they 've seen us and they 've seen the experiences we 've gone through and they 've seen what god has done in our lives , what about with those people do we wait for others to do it , shifting the responsibility . |
| 12 | And still the Great Wheel turned … |
| 13 | Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | She also admired Matilda who had sworn her to secrecy about the parrot job she had brought off at home , and also the great hair-oil switch which had bleached her father 's hair . |
| 15 | The first principal component has most information and hence the greatest contrast and least noise . |
| 16 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 17 | And now the great blade spun to a whine , while the black curtain fell away from the window , directing a blinding beam on to the bright , hungry teeth . |
| 18 | Of course JTR would trot along the shore to have a peek at Aros — and maybe the great man . |
| 19 | Since then we have had Polly Peck , Brent Walker , the scandal of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , and then the greatest scandal of all — the Maxwell scandal . |
| 20 | And then the great day itself — June Two Two , as they called it — it was as if the excitement could no longer be contained . |
| 21 | So a bedroom here , another bedroom here and then the great chamber , the most important bedroom . |
| 22 | And then the great leader must have a domineering personality . |
| 23 | ‘ And then the Great Vale , with the Great River , which we must follow north to Talisker . ’ |
| 24 | He had expected to be the deliverer of the news and then the great consoler , but Mrs Hogan was making light of it . |
| 25 | They are badly needed : as Green has said , ‘ It would be easy for clinical research to become the first and indeed the greatest casualty of reductions in size in London . ’ |
| 26 | The double-axe was an everyday implement , and yet the great majority of those that survive were intended for ritual use ; some were made of very thin sheet bronze , some were very large , some were very small , some were made of lead or of soft stone . |
| 27 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 28 | The Pandavas are banished to the forest for 12 years , but eventually the great war comes … |
| 29 | The well-established agricultural divisions of the county were reinforced by medieval practices , but perhaps the greatest contribution to Sussex life was the extension of settlement much deeper into the Weald , the piecemeal annual clearings going much farther than before . |
| 30 | ‘ My mother and Tatyana Kessner were my early teachers but perhaps the greatest influence was Lev Naumov , a man with a truly wonderful sense of musical fantasy and imagination . |