Example sentences of "[art] great [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the notation the bounds proved by Walpole for aligned transversely isotropic elements are : where the upper bound is where are the greatest of the values and the lower bound is where are the least of these . |
| 2 | ‘ Our kind is the greatest of the birds that fly in this land , ’ she explained . |
| 3 | But the greatest of the ruins of mediaeval Delhi , the great fort of Tughlukabad , lay some six miles due east of my rooftop , virtually invisible now in the gathering darkness . |
| 4 | A barograph used to record the pressure of gas in the gasholder in Batavia enabled the times of arrival of the pressure waves from the explosions to be recorded accurately , but the blast produced by the greatest of the explosions was such that the gasholder leapt out of its well , causing the gas to escape . |
| 5 | Spring , the greatest of the clothiers , owned land there valued at £105. 10s. ; his ancestors had been gentlemen , and his son John , in 1522 a gentleman in the household of Sir William Waldegrave at Smallbridge , Bures , dissolved the business on succeeding his father in 1523 . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 7 | This rebellion had two main foci : the Viceroyalties of the Rio de la Plata and of New Granada , where resistance was to be symbolized by Bolívar , the greatest of the liberators of Latin America . |
| 8 | His antagonist , Kossuth , called him ‘ the greatest of the Magyars ’ . |
| 9 | The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ . |
| 10 | the greatest of the magnates , who was determined to purge the court and to overturn Edward 's indulgent grants . |
| 11 | But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs . |