Example sentences of "it [verb] the great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either way , it represents the greatest environmental threat the world now faces . |
| 2 | It became the Great Depression as successive waves of bank failures rolled over America 's monetary system . |
| 3 | In such an environment , competitive advantage lies with the organisation that has the richest variety and frequency of interaction with the customer , not because this builds brands awareness , but because it offers the greatest opportunities to identify and to react the events that signal credit demand . |
| 4 | It illustrates the great freedom which the moneyers were allowed in the choice of design . |
| 5 | It has the greatest influence on the security judgement . |
| 6 | Clearly where a committee can issue a quick and reasoned comment on a topical subject it has the greatest impact . |
| 7 | It 's also the highest proportion of our oi erm production for these reasons and of course it has the greatest return pocket in that . |
| 8 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 9 | It has the great asset of open access and staff/patient relationships are excellent . |
| 10 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 11 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 12 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 13 | But the question is where will it do the greatest good … in Bosnia where it may not reach the people it 's meant for , or in Croatia where it probably will . |
| 14 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 15 | I consider this tendency to be dangerous because it undermines the great eighteenth-century idea of the unity of mankind , an idea that is so menaced anyway by racism and other movements of the same sort . |
| 16 | ‘ It insults the great players he mentions from a by-gone age , and does n't do Vinny , his club or football in general any credit at all . |
| 17 | It shows the great champion in the throes of the toughest bout of his life , depicting his struggle with grace and poignance . |
| 18 | Ophioplinthaca has been chosen as type genus because it shows the greatest and therefore most unambiguous development of the characters which separate this subfamily from the others but from the Ophiacanthinae in particular . |
| 19 | In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index . |
| 20 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 21 | It recognises the great value of oralism but it does not despise the natural language abilities of the deaf ; it utilises the efficiency of fingerspelling and recognises the limitations of lipreading and the inevitable imperfections in speech for the deaf although it does not reject them . |
| 22 | It forms the greater part of the brain and innervates the compound eyes and ocelli . |
| 23 | It survived the Great Fire intact and between 1621 and 1638 was the headquarters of the East India Company . |
| 24 | Such explicitness would be a disaster in the novel , but it underlies the final text of the pub tirade like a geological substratum , and it reflects the great and growing importance of mystic suffering in Dostoevsky 's post-Siberian work . |
| 25 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 26 | This is the best measure of fitness , since it expresses the greatest rate at which an individual can exert himself . |
| 27 | I want to suggest that it is the centrality given to this concept of sexuality that constitutes a problem for historians , for it ignores the great variety of cultural patterns that history reveals , and the very different meanings given to what we blithely label as ‘ sexual activity ’ . |
| 28 | It awaited the great mobilisation of savings that railway construction elicited and the parallel arrival of limited liability , but , as Professor Wilson has pointed out , " by advertising the opportunities of the stock market " the dealers of " Change Alley " helped in the long run " to widen the circle of investors as well as of speculators , by creating habits of investing rather than of hoarding and possibly levelled out extremes of fluctuation by increasing competitive bidding for stock " . |
| 29 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 30 | He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto . |