Example sentences of "the great [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The greatest damage to Israel , ’ says Meir Amit , a former head of the intelligence agency , ‘ is that rather than being known as producers in agriculture , in genetics , or in medicine , our trademark is the security business . ’ |
| 2 | Karl Kroyer pointed out that one of the greatest obstacles to success in innovation is the availability of choice , and the consequent tendency toward indecision . |
| 3 | One of the greatest dangers to Amnesty International and other in the human rights movement is the increasing tendency of governments to control human rights through ‘ verbal formula ’ and resourcing , and to base it on multilateral diplomacy rather than international human rights law . |
| 4 | Branson had long felt that the greatest drawback to Time Out was its left-wing politics . |
| 5 | It is an area of outstanding beauty supporting rare plantlife and the greatest asset to tourism . |
| 6 | The diversity of the Welsh economy will be one of the greatest benefits to Wales in the years that lie ahead . |
| 7 | One of many speakers on the subject of drugs , President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia said that drug trafficking fuelled terrorism and was one of the greatest threats to democracy in Latin America , adding that " every weapon in the war against narcotics pales into insignificance compared to the need to reduce demand " . |
| 8 | It is the commercialisation of fuel that poses the greatest threat to India 's forests . |
| 9 | The Democratic Party 's presidential candidate , veteran dissident Kim Dae Jung , was widely thought to pose the greatest threat to Kim Young Sam 's chances of victory . |
| 10 | Both figures are too high to ignore and prove , if nothing else , that the greatest threat to computer security comes from within . |
| 11 | The greatest threat to computer security comes from within |
| 12 | In 1979 , James Anderton , the Christian moralist chief constable of Greater Manchester , described the greatest threat to law and order as stemming from ‘ seditionist … interested groups who do not have the well-being of this country at heart and who mean to undermine democracy ’ ( Thompson 1979 : 380 ) . |
| 13 | I 'm beginning to feel that the greatest threat to canoeists are other canoeists which is extremely sad and reflects the pressure on the BCU to resolve the problems associated with river access before we all end up squabbling . |
| 14 | The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays , large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters . |
| 15 | At this meeting the ministers asserted that their form of Church government was established by divine ordinance ; Taylor in reply told them that Presbyterians , along with Jesuits , ‘ were the greatest enemies to monarchy and most disobedient to Kings ’ , as shown by the actions of the Assembly of Scotland , and of Calvin , Knox and Buchanan . |
| 16 | The well-established agricultural divisions of the county were reinforced by medieval practices , but perhaps the greatest contribution to Sussex life was the extension of settlement much deeper into the Weald , the piecemeal annual clearings going much farther than before . |
| 17 | The bayonet , perhaps the greatest contribution to warfare made by the seventeenth century , was well established almost everywhere in Europe by the beginning of this period . |
| 18 | The American Accounting Association ( AAA , 1970 — 1 , p. 85 ) states that : ‘ One of the greatest challenges to accountants in government at all levels is to help managers more effectively utilise the resources available for accomplishing the intended objectives . ’ |
| 19 | If it is so for choices of means it is so for choices of ends ; and it is one of the greatest temptations to irrationality that nothing compels us to acknowledge in the realm of ends what we can not afford to deny in the realm of means . |
| 20 | " So I called , " Jenny went on , ignoring the interruption , " and there was this marvellous man , with Great-Aunt and Lizzie fussing round him as though he were the greatest gift to humanity . |
| 21 | Touch-of-a-button access to all the required information would be the greatest boost to efficiency since computers were invented . |
| 22 | But it is in their generalized role as the preventers and headers-off of criminality that they give the greatest value to schools as well as to young people and their families . |
| 23 | The everyday things of life were the greatest gifts to ben Eliezer ; even as the human heart was the most appropriate place of worship . |
| 24 | When you have enough experience to have reached the stage where crashes are a rare occurrence ( if ever ! ) , the greatest aid to orientation is to fit a scale type fuselage to your model . |
| 25 | Birds show the greatest sensitivity to day length of any vertebrates . |
| 26 | Mr Foley identified uncertainty as the greatest obstacle to company expansion , noting that for many firms continued rationalisation may be the best policy . |
| 27 | It is grade 2 , and especially grade 3 , obesity , which carry the greatest risk to health . |
| 28 | The announcement , by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture , will " create incentives for the development of safe pesticides " and " remove those pesticides that pose the greatest risk to health , " according to food and drugs commissioner David Kessler . |
| 29 | Among mammals , however , the desert camel shows the greatest tolerance to dehydration . |
| 30 | With the greatest respect to Rumbelows , and the 76,000 packed inside Wembley , United hope that their success yesterday will soon be dwarfed by the achievement of lifting the First Division title for the first time since 1967 . |