Example sentences of "but [adv] the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pandavas are banished to the forest for 12 years , but eventually the great war comes … |
| 2 | You can count your money and burn it within the nod of a buffalo 's head , but only the Great Spirit can count the grains of sand and the blades of grass of these plains . |
| 3 | But finally the great revelation was , as always , Titian , above all the cleaned paintings from the Louvre , the ‘ Supper at Emmaus ’ and the ‘ Crowning with Thorns ’ , the one of Vermeerian delicacy and subdued drama , the other as lavish and ferocious as a Rubens , an example not of ‘ mannerist crisis ’ but of baroque dramatics . |
| 4 | Mao 's reputation had fared a little better , but even the Great Helmsman had had to endure the indignity of being retrospectively marked by his former protégés : he was allowed 60% correctness , 40% error in his actions . |
| 5 | But even the great glass eye has closed for the weekend . |