Example sentences of "to the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through this people God called for resistance to the great rebel and usurper of the world . |
| 2 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 3 | Zvi could n't remember how long it was since he had last found it necessary to advertise , but with Wine telling the Cork Examiner 's readers for the last three weeks that ‘ owing to the great increase of my practice ’ he was moving to larger premises Zvi felt he had no alternative . |
| 4 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 5 | It was the war which had led to the great increase in government patronage and hence also the potential for Court influence , and this was by and large a Whig war . |
| 6 | I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ? |
| 7 | What is wholly unacceptable is the denial of justice to the great majority of citizens who are not poor enough to qualify for legal aid but not rich enough to risk the costs of litigating an important public law issue in the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and perhaps the House of Lords . |
| 8 | He said the Thatcher years would be seen as the time ‘ in which existing pensioners missed out on the prosperity afforded to the great majority in this country . |
| 9 | Perhaps this is my fault : I am insufficiently trained in metaphysics , but this will surely apply to the great majority of readers . |
| 10 | Plants are highly resistant to the great majority of potentially damaging species , and plant breeding programmes continue to manipulate genes that confer immunity or a high degree of resistance . |
| 11 | One of Elizabeth I 's primary objectives in devising the religious settlement of 1559 was the creation of a broad Protestant consensus which would be acceptable to the great majority of her subjects . |
| 12 | Moreover , stateless societies are either small tribal societies , or small communities within a larger political system , and their political arrangements do not tell us a great deal that is relevant to the great majority of human societies . |
| 13 | The following description covers the main railway machinery , which applies to the great majority of railway employees in BR . |
| 14 | In the Middle Ages they would have gone on pilgrimages to the knee-cap of Saint Whoever , to the great profit of the Church . |
| 15 | More often , they simply died ; the after-dinner heart attack while slumbering in one of the club 's deep leather chairs was a popular way of moving on to the great gentleman 's club in the sky . |
| 16 | If we would come with him to the great hall , he would listen to all sides of the argument and then draw his conclusions . |
| 17 | Trustee Bradford Eastman Phillips , retired president of Totes rain gear company and a member of the $1 million-plus club , took title to the Great Hall , which is henceforth known as the Phillips Hall . |
| 18 | There is a sign in the entrance to the Great Hall notifying those who wish to use this facility to alter their hearing aids to the ‘ T ’ setting . |
| 19 | The music is all very appealing , but the move to the Great Hall of University College School and the larger forces involved have produced potentially difficult problems of layout . |
| 20 | Of note are the Bishop Henry 's arcaded parapets , decorated with some of the finest medieval sculptured heads and animal figures in Wales ( along both main wings of the palace ) , the piscina in the Palace Chapel , and also the entrance to the Great Hall . |
| 21 | Several animals of various sizes were roasting entire on slow-spinning spits , basted by anxious boys , whilst a stream of young people ferried foodstuffs from the pantries to the Great Hall above until the trestles set up there creaked under their load . |
| 22 | A faint smile crossed her face , but she remained silent until they had descended the stairway and stood at the entrance to the great hall . |
| 23 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 24 | He carried him over to the great oak chair and stood him on it . |
| 25 | The first firm in on the act was the Skerne Iron Works which had a somewhat chequered career as an occasional supplier of bridgeworks to the Great North Railway which ran through Darlington . |
| 26 | I spent little time at home now , so I was unable to be a detailed witness to the Great Love in the same account-keeping way as before . |
| 27 | In other words , the stress forces of the Earth , in particular stresses brought about by severe changes in climate , and the changing chemical nature of the surface , may have contributed to the great expansion , and occasional contraction , of species within narrow phyla that evolved from the recognizable solid life in the oceans ( oceanic life started , probably , in the Algonkian period , somewhere between 670 million and 600 million years ago ) . |
| 28 | The recent plea of diminished responsibility From Peter Sutcliffe , the so-called Yorkshire Ripper , was unsuccessful — to the great surprise of the examining psychiatrists . |
| 29 | The great 16th century Venetian architect San Savino said that ‘ a city should be built to the convenience and satisfaction of those that live in it , and to the great surprise of strangers ’ . |
| 30 | ’ Li Shai Tung nodded and eased himself back on to the great saddle of a turtle shell that was placed beside the pool . |