Example sentences of "[conj] the [adv] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 2 | In welcoming this commitment , Mr Bell pointed out that the substantially greater freedom which U.K. insurers have enjoyed in product design and in investment policy has been to the distinct benefit if their policy-holders in the past . |
| 3 | Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control . |
| 4 | And it was here that the once great motorbike manufacturers of the Midlands tested the machines that are still running today . |
| 5 | In midwifery , the delay due to a specialized training period and the slightly greater proportion of unmarried women modifies the pattern slightly . |
| 6 | Credit assessment — judging the profitable amount of credit to give , in what form and who to give it to — acquired new significance with the social changes that came with and after the First World War , and the even greater upheaval with the much bigger population after the Second . |
| 7 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 8 | He had been studying soil fungi since 1916 , and wrote a survey of the known inhibitors in 1940 , but his effective contribution to medicine came after the very modest success of tyrocidin and the very great success of penicillin . |
| 9 | What made this trade especially useful was the small extent to which it depended on re-exports and the very great extent to which it brought markets for English manufacturers , especially in woollen and worsted textiles of the lighter and cheaper kinds . |
| 10 | The report also details severe pollution of water resources and the still greater problem of radioactive wastes , much of which was dumped in ordinary waste tips during the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 11 | In the 1930s and 1940s , although the impact of man was becoming increasingly more evident from situations like the dust bowl , the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) , and the much greater use of fertilizers , this situation was not fully acknowledged in physical geography and this is perhaps particularly startling given the appearance of books on soil erosion ( e.g. Jacks and Whyte , 1939 ) . |
| 12 | But the even greater crisis , so brutally illustrated by the closeness of the vote , is over John Major 's leadership . |
| 13 | Thus , while the far greater number of ratepayers in the open villages meant that there was no disincentive to build houses , those that were built quickly became decrepit rural slums . |
| 14 | The Commission , the Spanish Government and the applicants in the main proceedings in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) argue , however , that even though , formally , those requirements apply in the same way to nationals , they are in reality discriminatory as regards both their objectives and their effects , since the very great majority of British citizens fulfil them automatically . |