Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling . |
| 2 | As I said in Committee , the lack of redress in terms of the activities of bus companies compared to the activities of rail or ferry operators represents a great anomaly . |
| 3 | However , while the process of electing a national president went smoothly , state party elections revealed high levels of factionalism within the BJP and led to the intervention of the central leadership in attempts to restore a greater semblance of unity to the party . |
| 4 | ( 1983 ) have found that although different nationalities broadly agree over landscape quality , select national groups produced a greater degree of similarity . |
| 5 | A keen sportsman , he has several times completed the Great North Run . |
| 6 | Proposals place a greater emphasis on recycling . |
| 7 | In his opening speech party chairman Aleksandur Lilov declared that factional splits posed the greatest threat to the party 's future . |
| 8 | Old newspapers are being preserved by photographing about 200 volumes a year to microform , priority being given to those for which readers make the greatest call . |
| 9 | It is the solution that offers the best balance between advantages and disadvantages — the animals gain the greatest degree of mutual protection from predators whilst sacrificing the least in terms of their ability to find food in the inhospitable terrain . |
| 10 | On 25 February , the Germans gained their greatest triumph of the battle when advance units penetrated the great fort of Douaumont and , finding many of the ill-armed French soldiers asleep through exhaustion , seized the citadel without loss of life . |
| 11 | In the future , if ever my old feelings about Mr Rochester began to return , I would only have to glance at the two pictures to see the great difference between us , and in this way common sense would destroy my foolish dreams . |
| 12 | Companion animals provide a great benefit for a large number of people . |
| 13 | There is no doubt that members and creditors ( actual or potential ) of companies are afforded ample opportunities to obtain a great deal of financial and other information about the companies concerned . |
| 14 | Her desperate words provoked a great shout of laughter from him , and , holding her firmly in his arms he rose and carried her towards his bedroom . |
| 15 | The choice of heads for the campaigning organizations says a great deal about their memberships : solidly white middle-class . |
| 16 | Recall from Chapter 22 that the monetarists put a great deal of faith in the observed correlation between changes in the money supply and changes in national income . |
| 17 | Branches undertake a great deal of complex and important work . |
| 18 | They provide all the classic tones , from full and ripe through soft and pingy to pure and sharp , all with remarkably low noise and completely even volume levels from position to position , with the Manson 's maple top , generous neck and heavy machineheads adding a great sense of solidity and authority to the sound . |
| 19 | Barnard 's observation that succussed solutions showed a greater viscosity than the equivalent simple dilutions prepared without succussion provides some evidence that homoeopathic potencies do indeed contain long-chain molecules . |
| 20 | In the case of a hunter this training is far more intense , because the intricacy of forest paths and the difficulty of tracing animals demand the greatest power of observation . |
| 21 | The speeches covered a great range of tone and emotion . |
| 22 | First , do their goals take the Great Commission seriously ? |
| 23 | The public battle between their respective supporters generated a great deal of heat . |
| 24 | The sheer task of learning Clifford 's speeches demanded a great deal of concentration from James , a father of two ; Barnaby , four , and Florence , one . |
| 25 | Such patriarchates represented a great design of Church government , which the Hildebrandine popes aimed at replacing with a centralized authority . |
| 26 | The direction for research generated by this formulation of the issues would be a comparison of working class and middle class clients to demonstrate the greater vulnerability of the former . |
| 27 | Overall , he says he 'd like to see grammar schools play a greater role in the current debate about selection . |
| 28 | Visual rote-learning by ‘ look and say ’ methods puts a greater burden on the less able . |
| 29 | Mr Bean , 29 , of Glen Road , Great Sutton , said : ‘ The lads did a great job for us . ’ |
| 30 | I dare say those two small kids had a great time larking around with mummy and ‘ uncle ’ Johnny . |