Example sentences of "great [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 2 | Throughout the whole of Merseyside crime is seen as a major social problem but , as has been seen , it is in the poor areas where the victimisation rates are highest , the impact of crime is greatest and the anxiety most intense . |
| 3 | The coupling is generally greatest if the displacement vectors lie along the same axis , and the linking atom is relatively light . |
| 4 | As expected on the basis of the hypothesis proposed above , that the relationship between maternal age and chances of child survival may depend upon the status of the mortality transition , it was found that , in those regions where overall infant mortality is relatively low ( under 100 per 1,000 live births ) , the likelihood that an infant will survive until its first birthday is greatest if the child 's mother was 20 to 29 years old when it was born . |
| 5 | The success was so great or the rivalry of the wealthy families so keen that during the next four years three more opera-houses were opened : the Teatro dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo , the San Moisè , and the Teatro Novissimo . |
| 6 | After the first men were made , it relates , the noise of their many children was so great that the god of the earth could not sleep . |
| 7 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 8 | If we use light whose absorption probability is high , the effects of local heating by the laser beam are usually so great that the sample decomposes . |
| 9 | But the outcry from conservationists has been so great that the government has decreed that no more wolves will be shot ( New Scientist , 10 March , p 633 ) . |
| 10 | Often the volume of urgent management business at a governors ' meeting is so great that the welfare of children in a caring environment can become a marginal issue . |
| 11 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 12 | The loss of nurses is so great that the profession replaces itself numerically once every six years . |
| 13 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 14 | The migration is so great that the countryside looks almost emptied . |
| 15 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 16 | Even though scale requirements have come down and thus open up new possibilities in small markets , the gains will not be great until the assembly plants are backed by world-class support structures . |
| 17 | This lets you hide any application , whether open or minimised — great if the boss is coming and you 've got a game of solitaire on the boil . |
| 18 | ‘ It 'll be great if the rain keeps off , ’ Rose said . |
| 19 | He says elderly people are not attacked in their homes very often , but the fear of attack is great and the campaign will help to play down those fears . |
| 20 | In the circumstances of the 1940s , it was felt most by the large industrial users , who could be contacted quickly to switch off demand ‘ voluntarily ’ to avoid the collapse of the supply system which would follow if the load were too great and the frequency were allowed to drop below the safe minimum . |
| 21 | The towers collapse when the height becomes too great and the vocabulary arising from this activity is usually of the type , ‘ Can I make it fall down ? ’ |
| 22 | It was decided the risk of going on was too great and the team retreated . |
| 23 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 24 | For sheer daftness there 's no beating the British Tank Malling ( Cannons , Panton Street and Oxford Street , 18 ) which postulates a ludicrously megalomaniac semi-Fascist politico ( Peter Wyngarde ) , backed by criminals , the police , bishops and the judiciary in his attempt to bring moral regeneration to the country , while at the same time feeding the dirty sexual desires of the great and the good who back him . |
| 25 | The bump readers , who once moved among the great and the good , are almost gone ; though a handful of practitioners are still living , phrenology is officially dead . |
| 26 | This later recommendation surprised many who had expected a liberal/academic working party of ‘ the great and the good ’ to turn their backs on the idea of retaining a paternalistic and arguably outmoded system of adult censorship . |
| 27 | The next move was to find a chairman from the ranks of the great and the good , someone of acknowledged independence who combined the qualities of Solomon and Job . |
| 28 | No further away than this morning The Times printed an advertisement from 209 of the great and the good who are calling for the legalisation of cannabis . |
| 29 | The great and the good of the City spoke . |
| 30 | THE CONTRADICTORY and yet predictable responses of the great and the good to the problem of crime among the young has made depressing reading in the days since the murder of James Bulger . |