Example sentences of "of [art] great [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its prince was to be elected by the Bulgarians , confirmed by Turkey with the assent of the powers , and was to belong to none of the great reigning houses of Europe . |
| 2 | Against Dublin Brolly was a revelation and though he had his critics in the past the Dungiven man came of age in Croke Park with one of the great individual performances . |
| 3 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 4 | During the eighteenth century there were signs of the first rumblings of the tectonic upheaval which shattered the old order in Europe , and from its ruins created a group of nation states out of the submerged nations which lay under the surface of the great multinational empires . |
| 5 | The answer is that his remarkable methods as batsman , bowler and captain made him one of the great sporting entertainers . |
| 6 | Close 's achievement must rank as one of the great sporting upsets of recent years . |
| 7 | So you want to be a boxer ; you want to be a champ ; you want to live one of the great sporting dreams . |
| 8 | Champion jockey Peter Scudamore is on course to break one of the great sporting records of Victorian times . |
| 9 | A New Age in historical interpretation has arrived which is comparable to the pioneering work of the great eighteenth-century antiquarians such as William Stukeley . |
| 10 | Angus Wilson claimed to have read and reread Richardson 's Clarissa , for all its immense bulk , starting at the age of eighteen , admiring above all its triumphant creation of fantasy out of realistic detail — a realism made transcendent — though he also admired the ‘ God 's eye view ’ of the great nineteenth-century novels . |
| 11 | The peoples of these republics — Uzbeks , Kazakhs , Kirgiz , Tajiks and Turkmenis — are the descendants of the great Mongol empires of medieval times and they speak languages that are of Turkic ( or in the case of the Tajiks , Iranian ) origin . |
| 12 | Trinity College boasts many famous playwrights amongst its graduates — Congreve , Farquhar , Goldsmith , Wilde , Beckett — and many more of the great English-language dramatists were Irishmen — Sheridan , Shaw , Boucicault , etc . |
| 13 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 14 | One of the great unanswered questions in the case , is what that investigation has uncovered . |
| 15 | The archbishopric of York was poverty-stricken compared with that of Canterbury , the communities of secular canons characteristic of north-west Mercia could not remotely approach the holdings of the great southern monasteries . |
| 16 | A further limitation , true of charter material generally , is that they deal primarily with southern England , because most survived in the archives of the great southern churches . |
| 17 | Jimmy Wilde — one of the great unsung heroes of Crystal Palace , until today ! |
| 18 | Thus Warltire was very close to making one of the great chemical discoveries of the late eighteenth century , that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen . |
| 19 | The search for better grazing prompted many of the great nomadic outpourings from Central Asia , and as recently as the early 1960s a civil war was fought in what is now Zaire over the control of Katanga 's copper mines . |
| 20 | By one of the great ironic twists , the club 's claims to aristocracy hinged on the moods of a working-class roadsweeper from Glasgow . |
| 21 | Food , as one of the great sensual experiences is always uppermost in our minds , and at Bristol , amongst new intake it seemed invariably the priority subject . |
| 22 | In every way , the submarine cable was proving to be ‘ … one of the great technical adventures of the 19th century , something akin to exploration of space today ’ .9 |
| 23 | Details of the artificial harbours were finally complete and one of the great technical triumphs of the Second World War began to take shape . |
| 24 | This classic seven day cruise takes you along Germany 's greatest river from Cologne right through to Basle at the foot of the great Swiss alps . |
| 25 | Though I was , having expected one of the great historic documents of planning , bitterly disappointed with the Plan when I first studied it , I now think that in the circumstances Abercrombie did as well as any man , of the type who can survive in planning practice , could have done . |
| 26 | One of the great spiritual writers , Madame Guyon , speaks about ‘ experiencing the depths of Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 27 | Because of the great spiritual needs of the people , Mrs. Baxter urged the building of another meeting house in Bloomsbury . |
| 28 | This is the first book known to have been written by a woman in English , and is recognised as one of the great spiritual writings . |
| 29 | As one born a ‘ Cockney ’ I can tell you of the great Catholic priests who lived among the poor of the East End of London — and loved them into the Kingdom of God . |
| 30 | This was no less than , politically speaking , one of the great strategic withdrawals of history . |