Example sentences of "great [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 2 | The success was so great or the rivalry of the wealthy families so keen that during the next four years three more opera-houses were opened : the Teatro dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo , the San Moisè , and the Teatro Novissimo . |
| 3 | After the first men were made , it relates , the noise of their many children was so great that the god of the earth could not sleep . |
| 4 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 5 | Often the volume of urgent management business at a governors ' meeting is so great that the welfare of children in a caring environment can become a marginal issue . |
| 6 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 7 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 8 | THE CONTRADICTORY and yet predictable responses of the great and the good to the problem of crime among the young has made depressing reading in the days since the murder of James Bulger . |
| 9 | The great and the good of the City spoke . |
| 10 | All this week the great and the good of the computer and microelectronics industries — or many of them — have been in San Francisco at the annual Hambrecht & Quist industry conference . |
| 11 | PERHAPS the most striking aspect of the John Birt affair has been the enthusiasm with which the great and the good of 1980s British television have lined up to kick him when he is down . |
| 12 | The ‘ great and the good in serried ranks ’ at the Royal College of Physicians heard clinicians from different specialties confront managers with the problems of rationing at the clinical interface . |
| 13 | These social-class differences are even more marked for younger husbands , where the unskilled manual rate is 5.5 times as great as the incidence in the professional category . |
| 14 | This is not necessarily as great as the increase in the liabilities of the target company related to the breach of warranty , particularly if the purchaser has only paid a nominal price for the shares in the first place . |
| 15 | The key was the institution of a density control based on a normal limit of floor space five times as great as the plot on which building was to take place . |
| 16 | The assistance of a fair tide is not as great as the hindrance of a foul tide — as any boatman will tell . |
| 17 | But this increase may not be as great as the rise in the numbers of older people if there is an improvement in their state of fitness as Jefferys and Thane ( 1989 ) suggest . |
| 18 | However the decrease in ATF1 RNA is not as great as the reduction in protein levels , suggesting that other mechanisms are involved in regulating ATF1 protein levels during differentiation . |
| 19 | These results are examples of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy ( see Theorem XII of 1.22 ) , viz. the degeneracy of the product of two matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors . |
| 20 | Theorem XII — Sylvester 's Law of Degeneracy : the degeneracy of the product of two square matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors , or the order of the matrices , whichever is less . |
| 21 | The trouble here is that the implausibility of the truth of scepticism is about as great as the implausibility of the truth of anti-realism . |
| 22 | These results are examples of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy ( see Theorem XII of 1.22 ) , viz. the degeneracy of the product of two matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors . |
| 23 | Theorem XII — Sylvester 's Law of Degeneracy : the degeneracy of the product of two square matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors , or the order of the matrices , whichever is less . |
| 24 | The first is that the amount of evolutionary divergence in the organization of primate brains has not been anywhere near as great as the divergence between primates and other groups . |
| 25 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the proceedings of the international menopause conference which point out that the number of deaths of women in the post-50 age group from heart attack and particularly stroke is twice as great as the number dying from osteoporosis and 10 times as great as the number of deaths from breast cancer ? |
| 26 | This was not necessarily as great as the frisson of excitement which comes from watching his jolly exciting films but it should not be disregarded for all that . |
| 27 | Only when the cameras were rolling was it heart-sinkingly apparent that the physics of inertia , represented by nearly a ton of resting sand , were greater than the physics of motion represented by the four skidding wheels of a Land Rover . |
| 28 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |
| 29 | As a result total revenues would be lower in the industry in years of good harvest , and when there is a very poor harvest prices rocket through the roof because of the inelastic demand and therefore the change in price is much greater than the change in quantity er .. consumed on on the market . |
| 30 | LaBudde noted that the quantity of non-target species taken during their time aboard was greater than the quantity of squid harvested . |