Example sentences of "great [noun sg] forward " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Macmillan era in the late 1950s and early 1960s , with its catching slogan ‘ You never had it so good ’ was an appropriate optimistic backcloth for a great surge forward in the provision of consumer credit [ said Sir Gordon Borrie in that Rathbone Memorial Lecture ] . |
| 2 | And that 's when the railways I thought , nineteen fifty five to nineteen sixty , there were a great surge forward . |
| 3 | There had been trade unions before of course , and er activity but not to the same extent between fifteen er nineteen fifty five to sixty , there was a great surge forward . |
| 4 | In the spring of 1926 , Lewis 's own secret career as a poet took a great stride forward as he completed his long narrative poem Dymer . |
| 5 | A great stride forward was made after 1931 by J.N.L. Myres who began the systematic investigation of early Anglo-Saxon pottery ( Myres 1969 , pp. 1–5 ) , yet there was no clear statement concerning the methods used to establish the chronology of the vessels under review , despite quite specific dates being ascribed . |
| 6 | Appointed to the politburo and then made founding editor of the theoretical journal Hong Qi ( 'Red Flag' ) in 1958 , Chen wrote numerous articles attacking ‘ revisionism ’ and supporting Mao 's disastrous ‘ Great Leap Forward ’ , an ill-conceived and brutally executed drive for rapid industrialisation and rural collectivisation now blamed for the deaths of more than 15 million people . |
| 7 | Now that would be a great leap forward . ’ |
| 8 | In the days of Chairman Mao , author of the disastrous Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution , the party could belittle such dangers . |
| 9 | Antiques they may be , but one good reason for choosing a record deck so late in the day is that , unlike CD , the technology is tried and tested and not susceptible to the great leap forward , leaving you with an obsolete model . |
| 10 | Plate Tectonics , however , was truly a great leap forward since it helps to explain the interrelationships of almost all geological phenomena . |
| 11 | SEM has meant a great leap forward , allowing Harris to look for more ‘ critical diagnostic characteristics ’ on the grains . |
| 12 | A great leap forward . |
| 13 | Only three years after the collapse of the projected EDC and Political Community structures , European integration was poised to take a great leap forward . |
| 14 | The claim , if proved , would of course , create tremendous market share and persuade many ISVs still hanging back from Unix to make the great leap forward . |
| 15 | The story becomes more profound when that same biologist 's eye scrutinises our species ' unique trait : language — its role in the Cro-Magnon ‘ great leap forward , ’ and the triumph of Indo- European languages . |
| 16 | Although involved in the Great Leap Forward ( 1958-60 ) and the Cultural Revolution ( 1966-76 ) , he later recognized that both had been disastrous for the country 's economic development . |
| 17 | What had caused the sieges to be abandoned was the news that Cumberland was at last making his great move forward . |
| 18 | I have a list here of people in my particular part of the profession who have pledged themselves to assist with the great drive forward for the seventy fifth anniversary . |
| 19 | There 's a chance now for Martin Foyle ; Martin Foyle — and he 's scored , oh a great chip forward by Simpson , it 's laid back there to Martin Foyle , he takes the ball on his chest and Martin Foyle has done it . |
| 20 | Oh a great chip forward by Simpson , it 's laid back there to Martin Foyle and he takes the ball on his chest and Martin Foyle has done it . |
| 21 | These ideas were given a great push forward by the increasing impact of American thinking on British social policy from the late 1960s onward . |
| 22 | There is a danger that it may displace some trouble elsewhere , but on balance it is a great step forward . |
| 23 | This represented a great step forward in the services available from the co-operative and one that could have significance for advisory services in this country — particularly in remote areas . |
| 24 | Thus the use of the vernacular is a great step forward in permitting participation by the majority . |
| 25 | ‘ The vaccine is a great step forward but parents must still stay on their guard against meningitis , ’ warned Helen Buttery of the National Meningitis Trust . |
| 26 | This is a great step forward and women can now be better educated . |
| 27 | But at another level , if we could show love , respect and acceptance for each other in the magnificent diversity that that we show as women , instead of patronising and attacking each other on the basis of our body shapes , that would be a great step forward ! |
| 28 | ‘ It seems a great step forward . ’ |
| 29 | The introduction of the slow and uniformly burning safety fuze ( which also made gunpowder blasting easier and safer ) was a great step forward . |
| 30 | I thank my hon. Friend for his earlier remarks , in which he recognised the great step forward that we have taken with the Food Safety Act , but I am concerned about his latter comments . |