Example sentences of "by [art] great [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis , count of Flanders , was pro-French ; his subjects , however , dominated by the great cloth-weaving towns of Bruges , Ghent , and Ypres were more likely to turn to England , the source of the wool upon which their industry and wealth depended . |
| 2 | ‘ The books I most admire in the European tradition are , ’ he says , ‘ 19th century novels by the great Russian writers and by English writers like Jane Austen and George Eliot . |
| 3 | He was deeply influenced by the great aeronautical pioneers of the day , notably Kingsford-Smith and Ulm , whose epic flights in the southern hemisphere shone like the target indicators he was to introduce years later over Germany . |
| 4 | We have been bemused too long by the great military roads of the Romans and have not given enough thought and research to the local ‘ economic ’ roads that developed during the two or three centuries that followed the Conquest and the brief phase of military occupation . |
| 5 | Apart from the East India Company , which kept its monopoly until 1813 , the domination of English trade by the great chartered companies had dwindled by the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | This common misconception is fostered and perhaps shared by a great many retailers . |