Example sentences of "[adj] that [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the occasional $500m-worth of speculative trading on the Korean Stock Exchange on a single day — as happened on January 17th — and a booming kerb market make it clear that a great deal of loose cash is still swirling around . |
| 2 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 3 | Not only is it good value for money , it 's clear that a great deal of thought has been given to the virus problem and how to cure it . |
| 4 | It was clear that the Great Casterton defences had been planned and carried out in an unhurried manner and with military precision . |
| 5 | It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA . |
| 6 | It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume . |
| 7 | The question in the 1959 survey was open-ended , and it is possible that the great increase in preparedness to act is an artefact of the changed method of question administration . |
| 8 | A future director of the National Theatre who admired Leavis 's lectures at Cambridge has since remarked that ‘ all we students pretended we sped to his lectures to imbibe his humanism , ’ whereas in fact they were enjoying his character-assassinations : ‘ Strange that a great moralist should be so destructive about creative artists . ’ |
| 9 | On the one hand , it seems appropriate that the great days of verba precativa in imperial constitutions should end with Diocletian , for with Constantine came change : he disposed of formalities of language , and from this point on there was no sense in any test to which wordings should confirm . |
| 10 | It is immediately noticeable that the great majority of comments come from the childhood memories . |
| 11 | In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject . |
| 12 | There are , of course , masterpieces in the collection , by Pierino da Vinci ( no.72 ) , Giovanni Francesco Susini ( no.94 ) , Georg Petel ( no. 361 ) , Edward Pierce ( no.559 ) and Louis-François Roubiliac ( no.565 ) , but it is likely that the greatest nuggets of information will be found in the entries on the more modest sculptures , which are so often difficult to find out about . |
| 13 | It is therefore almost inevitable that the great mystery of the epic of Finland , the Kalevala , should irresistibly recall the Silmarils : it is the riddle of the sampo , or tsampo . |
| 14 | He was revolted by the paltry game that he was being forced to play in the assembly and increasingly sure that a greater game awaited him . |
| 15 | When being questioned by magistrates about her teaching ( they were suspicious of her on the grounds of her sex and lack of social position ) she is confident that a greater Lord will answer for her . |
| 16 | It is encouraging that a great deal of emphasis is placed on aspects of plan preparation , whether this be the research or the surveying , since knowing your facts is vital before organising action . |
| 17 | The Tories stringently opposed the Whigs on this front , partly on the grounds that foreign immigrants posed a threat to national security and took away jobs from native workers , but also because they were concerned that a great influx of non-Anglicans would further undermine the Church of England . |
| 18 | In local authority work today committee work has become so important that a great measure of power is given to committees . |
| 19 | In the informal interview it is apparent that a great deal depends on the skill of the interviewer , and perhaps two interviewers might get different responses from the same person in interviews purporting to cover the same topics . |
| 20 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 21 | With all these advantages it is not surprising that a great deal of effort and resources go into the provision of simulators for high technology industry . |
| 22 | Considering the time it takes initially to carry out an analysis , it is quite surprising that a great deal of interest has been aroused . |
| 23 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 24 | It was , therefore , not surprising that the great economists of this period either ignored or made only brief and passing references to the quality or quantity of labour as an important factor in economic growth . |
| 25 | It is certain that a great deal of such duplication has gone on , all over the chromosomes , and throughout geological time . |
| 26 | Whatever was in Lenin 's mind , it is certain that the great Famine of 1921–2 wiped out any likelihood of peasant resistance . |
| 27 | But even as eye and ear follow the darting changes here and there , as if they were the only reality , even as that happens we are made aware that the great screen is showing some sharply outlined human scene — the easy or awkward coming together of acquaintances in this pub , that cemetery , this newspaper office , that maternity hospital , library or brothel the making and the unmaking of friendships and hopes — the experience of solitude . |
| 28 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the greatest service he can continue to do for the British public is to keep inflation below 5 per cent ? |
| 29 | Is it true that a great army is coming , and the war has ended ? ’ |
| 30 | It is certainly true that a great deal of the competition between nationalists and unionists concerned the distribution of resources . |