Example sentences of "it [verb] the great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became the Great Depression as successive waves of bank failures rolled over America 's monetary system . |
| 2 | In such an environment , competitive advantage lies with the organisation that has the richest variety and frequency of interaction with the customer , not because this builds brands awareness , but because it offers the greatest opportunities to identify and to react the events that signal credit demand . |
| 3 | It illustrates the great freedom which the moneyers were allowed in the choice of design . |
| 4 | It 's also the highest proportion of our oi erm production for these reasons and of course it has the greatest return pocket in that . |
| 5 | It has the greatest influence on the security judgement . |
| 6 | Clearly where a committee can issue a quick and reasoned comment on a topical subject it has the greatest impact . |
| 7 | It has the great asset of open access and staff/patient relationships are excellent . |
| 8 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 9 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 10 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 11 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 12 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 13 | ‘ It insults the great players he mentions from a by-gone age , and does n't do Vinny , his club or football in general any credit at all . |
| 14 | It shows the great champion in the throes of the toughest bout of his life , depicting his struggle with grace and poignance . |
| 15 | In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index . |
| 16 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 17 | It recognises the great value of oralism but it does not despise the natural language abilities of the deaf ; it utilises the efficiency of fingerspelling and recognises the limitations of lipreading and the inevitable imperfections in speech for the deaf although it does not reject them . |
| 18 | It forms the greater part of the brain and innervates the compound eyes and ocelli . |
| 19 | It survived the Great Fire intact and between 1621 and 1638 was the headquarters of the East India Company . |
| 20 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 21 | This is the best measure of fitness , since it expresses the greatest rate at which an individual can exert himself . |
| 22 | I want to suggest that it is the centrality given to this concept of sexuality that constitutes a problem for historians , for it ignores the great variety of cultural patterns that history reveals , and the very different meanings given to what we blithely label as ‘ sexual activity ’ . |
| 23 | It awaited the great mobilisation of savings that railway construction elicited and the parallel arrival of limited liability , but , as Professor Wilson has pointed out , " by advertising the opportunities of the stock market " the dealers of " Change Alley " helped in the long run " to widen the circle of investors as well as of speculators , by creating habits of investing rather than of hoarding and possibly levelled out extremes of fluctuation by increasing competitive bidding for stock " . |
| 24 | He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto . |
| 25 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 26 | It provides the greatest area of enclosed water , retains the operational use of Cardiff dock and provides the greatest opportunity for waterside development and water-related recreational uses . |