Example sentences of "they [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 2 | The ANC described the membership of the five MPs ( who were subsequently expelled from the DP ) as formalizing a " long-standing relationship which has earned them the greatest respect " and as underlining the ANC 's commitment to " a truly non-racial South Africa " . |
| 3 | A basic skill that gives them the greatest start in life . |
| 4 | We use examples in the textbook , and often on audio , which gives them the greater realism of different voices and sound effects . |
| 5 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 6 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 7 | Below them the great garden stretched away , flanked by the two great rivers , the whole enclosed within a single , unbroken wall , its lakes and pagodas , its tiny woods and flower beds , its bridges and shaded walkways a pleasure to behold . |
| 8 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 9 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 10 | But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony . |
| 11 | They believe this gives them a great opportunity and I am sure they are right . ’ |
| 12 | And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match . |
| 13 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 14 | They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking . |
| 15 | On the other hand ( see page 46 ) reasoning with children involves giving them a great deal of attention which might reinforce and maintain , if not increase , the quarrelsomeness . |
| 16 | Such an argument misses the point that nuclear reactors bring with them a great deal of technical information , and experience . |
| 17 | Time usually sorts out the discrepancies , but an explanatory book for them to read , or a reassuring chat , if you can talk things over with them , may save them a great deal of unnecessary anxiety . |
| 18 | This makes them a great deal less allergenic , although they still cause problems in some children who are highly sensitive to cow 's milk . |
| 19 | I have met women who epitomize the ‘ good mother ’ ; they genuinely love and care for their children and give them a great deal of attention , playing with them and guiding them in a way that most of us feel we can never emulate . |
| 20 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
| 21 | And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise . |
| 22 | The Dzhungar khanate , established in 1635 , also influenced them a great deal . |
| 23 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 24 | The workers devised detailed outreach strategies ( based on surveys , including a local talent survey , and community consultations ) which taught them a great deal about the skills and experiences in the area , and attitudes to unemployment . |
| 25 | We owe them a great deal and can best repay them by finding a political solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | It is fine for many of us , given the privileged lives that we lead ; it is hell for many of our citizens and we owe them a great deal more urgency than is provided by this useful but inadequate measure . |
| 27 | Again , the Germans did better , 22% being prepared to trust them a great deal . |
| 28 | Dr Merson called for national programmes to make AIDS prevention ‘ truly sensitive ’ to the needs of women and give them a greater say in the programmes . |
| 29 | I am , as you know , not a religious man , but my version of a prayer is to contemplate those placider days , as if by doing it often enough , telling the beads in my mind , I can confer upon them a greater significance , sufficient to obliterate the terrible moment . |
| 30 | Much as the regimes of Eastern Europe might welcome the support of their neighbours against Moscow — and hence a strengthening of such multilateral forums — they also view their neighbours as rival claimants to Moscow 's favour and are wary of giving them a greater voice in their own affairs . |