Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [prep] the great " in BNC.
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| 1 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 2 | The Captain was an egocentric man , one who believed in the great blueprints of life . |
| 3 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 4 | By obstructing it , BR said tonight , they 're endangering the lives of a hundred and seventy thousand passengers who travel on the Great Western every day . |
| 5 | Go into the s transept with its rose window of the Last Judgement by Max Švabinský , 1935–8 , the Emblem of Prague City in metalwork by Karel Štipl , 1946 , a statue of Christ by Čeněk Vosmík , a fine memorial of 1921 dedicated to those who fell in the Great War by K. Pokorný , and the statue of St Wenceslas by Karel Dvořák , 1922 . |
| 6 | A few groups of migrants , notably among Germans and Scandinavians , who went to the Great Lakes area of the United States , or the earlier Scots settlers in Canada , exchanged a poor agricultural milieu for a better one : only 10 per cent of the foreign immigrants in the United States in 1880 were in agriculture , mostly not as farmers ‘ possibly ’ , as an observer claimed ‘ on account of the capital required to purchase and stock a farm ’ , ’ the equipment of which alone was reckoned to cost $900 in the early 1870s . |
| 7 | The striking nameplates affixed to 6165 commemorated those GC employees who died in the Great War . |
| 8 | It 's a long way from the killing fields of northern France seventy five years ago , but the City Of Oxford Theatre Group still want to pay tribute to the thousands who died in the Great War . |
| 9 | The names of these directors of change in your country alone are still recalled , novelists who seized on the great scientifico-social changes of their day and moulded a more sensitive appreciation of life to respond to it : Disraeli , Mrs Gaskell , the Brontë sisters , Charles Reade , George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , George Eliot , your friend Peacock , many others . |
| 10 | Trollope thus praises Mr Thorne for continuing to inhabit the great hall at Ullathorne Court ( there is no dining-room ) , with no more concession to modernity than a modem grate , although it is now only the socially acceptable , not the humble , who come to the great front door that opens into it . |
| 11 | A company is employee controlled if more than half its issued ordinary share capital and voting power is beneficially owned by full-time employees , namely individuals who work for the greater part of their time as employees or directors of the company or its 51% subsidiaries . |
| 12 | Someone who knows about the great act of betrayal so many years ago . |