Example sentences of "of a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then news reached Europe in 1187 of a great battle fought at Hattin , close to the Sea of Galilee . |
| 2 | He tells me of a great battle his ancestors fought near Lake Victoria . |
| 3 | To walk the length of a great basilica from porch to apse was to make the journey of salvation and find oneself in ‘ a place of perfection , the heavenly Jerusalem , its walls and buildings made in heaven , transferred to this spot ’ . |
| 4 | If you are sitting behind a desk with a degree from Trinity and not an ounce of ‘ a Banker ’ to boast about it probably has all the hallmarks of a great idea . |
| 5 | ‘ So you 'd like to believe Steve is in the throes of a great romance with me ? ’ she forced out through her hurt . |
| 6 | The novelist should possess qualities that are similar to those of a great statesman . |
| 7 | The truly happy life has the resources of a great river that flows endlessly , bringing strength and hope to ourselves and to others . |
| 8 | Next , the region became the delta of a great river . |
| 9 | London , like Verona , had been planted by the Romans at the critical point in the progress of a great river towards the sea . |
| 10 | They were on strike for the Charter and only for the Charter , a multitude of them , coming like the tributaries of a great river , from everywhere . |
| 11 | Extraordinary embassies of an essentially ceremonial kind , so frequent in the past , involving the sending of a great aristocrat on a mission of congratulation or condolence or to represent his sovereign at a coronation ceremony , were now becoming rare . |
| 12 | Not much is known about the course of the Council , although there are two surviving eye-witness accounts , one of which describes all the razzmatazz of a great occasion — crowds , the pope on a dais , festivities , the day-long ceremony of the re-dedication of St Maria in Trastevere , the processions with flags , flares and lights . |
| 13 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 14 | She paused and peered anxiously along the pathway , which made a dim corridor into the wood , almost like the aisle of a great church , thought Virginia . |
| 15 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |
| 16 | When empty the ten-bay Framsden barn , and even more so the Paston barn which is built of stone , have the same noble proportions as the nave of a great church . |
| 17 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 19 | She entered small chambers , stood at the side of a great hall , its roof decayed , dark creatures flying through the sagging beams , the falling eaves . |
| 20 | But there was no indication of a great army of over twenty thousand being roused or in the process of marshalling . |
| 21 | Edward will be at the head of a great army , thousands of men . |
| 22 | Information arrived from deep in Northumberland that King Edward was already on the move northwards , earlier than anticipated , having left Newcastle the day before at the head of a great army estimated at sixty thousand , well equipped with cannon and siege-engines . |
| 23 | In 1849 it was natural that peasant politics in Moravia should take the form of a rumour that the Hungarian revolutionary leader Kossuth was the son of the ‘ peasant emperor ’ Joseph II , close kin of the ancient king Svatopluk , and about to invade the country at the head of a great army . |
| 24 | The Prince dreamed of a great Netherlands victory , with himself as its hero . |
| 25 | Urgently Ramsay directed them , all but physically pushing and prodding them into the approximate shape of a great wedge . |
| 26 | Clearly we are in the hands of a great master with this wallpaper ’ . |
| 27 | For a sensitive understanding of the manuscript artist and an experienced and wise judgement on his miniatures , this beautifully illustrated and concisely written book is the work of a great master . |
| 28 | We are in the company of a great assassin . |
| 29 | That is because it is a magnificent structure , the supreme architectural expression of the heroic , monumental phase of power station design and the creation of a great architect . |
| 30 | ‘ Success comes to the common man , and even to commonplace ability ; but to triumph over the calamities and terrors of mortal life is the part of a great man only . |