Example sentences of "[art] great [noun sg] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ERM — the great escape or a cold new world ? |
| 2 | A flock of snow buntings , a skein of brent geese , a flotilla of eiders , a great skua or a lone gannet makes it worth the waiting . |
| 3 | He saw human beings not as a mass of contradictions but as a particular sort of person — a great nobleman or a poor scholar or a spotty-faced announcer from the BBC . |
| 4 | ‘ Prue ! ’ exclaims Howard , very pleased to hear the familiar impossible voice at such a moment , when he is feeling so raw and exposed from watching himself , and so uncertain whether he is a great man or a great fool . |
| 5 | They are for my bride , whether she 's a great lady or a governess . ’ |
| 6 | A great lady or a factory woman are independent persons — personages — the women of the middle classes are nobodies , and if they act for themselves they lose caste ! . ’ |
| 7 | or dry testicles of balls which the Chinese consider a great aphrodisiac or a venereal disease which makes your balls turn yellow ? |
| 8 | She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Of the promisingly-titled Bad Lord Byron ( 1949 ) , for example , Box remarked that ‘ nothing was artificially concocted , ’ but the film is also deathly dull to watch as various figures from Byron 's life come into a court room to debate whether he was a great poet or a great cad . |
| 10 | " José Churruca " was the boy in whom his father saw " either a great soldier or a saint " and the man who , as an army officer , fought heroically for the Nationalists ( at the head of a unit of Legionnaires ) in order to save the Fatherland from chaos and destruction . |