Example sentences of "of its great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EARLY IN 1977 , SAVE was faced with one of its greatest challenges — the break-up of the great Rosebery Collection at Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire . |
| 2 | One of its greatest challenges will concern the future role and status of teachers . |
| 3 | The continuing search for drugs to combat viral infections presents modern medicine with one of its greatest challenges . |
| 4 | Passing under the main A.52 , which is supported by an old brick bridge , one comes to Wainfleet 's major landmark and one of its greatest claims to fame — the old brick-tower windmill . |
| 5 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 6 | THE world of motor racing was mourning one of its greatest champions last night after the sudden death from a heart attack of British former world champion James Hunt . |
| 7 | Under McGuinness , the IRA developed its virtually impenetrable cell network and scored some of its greatest coups , including the murder of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 . |
| 8 | Civil rights organisations have long criticised the league for not having a black head coach despite the fact that many of its greatest players have been black . |
| 9 | But they are most unlikely to do so — and herein lies part of the explanation for Labour 's election defeat , and one of its greatest problems for the future . |
| 10 | Brazil has been one of its greatest exponents . |
| 11 | In 1880 , some of its greatest successes in diffusing its institutions and ideas were still to come . |
| 12 | Philip Pouncey 's death at the age of eighty in 1990 ( see The Art Newspaper No.3 , December 1990 , p. 2 ) robbed Old Master drawings studies of its greatest connoisseur and one of its most valued personalities . |
| 13 | The name of the Birmingham Six may haunt the British legal system , but it can always gloat about one of its greatest triumphs , the case of a notorious bunch of Scottish footballers who go by the name of The Copenhagen Five . |
| 14 | The world has lost one of its greatest football players and a great gentleman . ’ |
| 15 | It was also , as we shall see later , to prove to be one of its greatest weaknesses . |
| 16 | Magnus the Pious is one of the most famous historical figures in the Empire and one of its greatest Emperors . |
| 17 | Heartily do we wish it well ; and to you , as one of its greatest celebrities , allow me to offer my hearty good wishes and earnest prayers that you may long live to witness its triumphs in all that appertains to the well-being of mankind . |
| 18 | The General Omnibus Company introduced to London , in 1929 , the first six-wheeled bus , and in that year Chiswick experienced one of its greatest fires — Sanderson 's Wallpaper Factory , situated beside the Public Library in Dukes Avenue and flanking Barley Mow Passage . |
| 19 | One of its greatest distinctions is a heated indoor swimming pool with sauna . |
| 20 | Technology is a wonderful thing and I 'm one of its greatest fans . |
| 21 | In his History of Chelsea ( 1869 ) George Bryan remarked how the King 's Road was once almost exclusively occupied by farmers and gardeners and one of its greatest attractions for many years afterwards was the preponderance of nursery and floricultural grounds to be found there . |
| 22 | Before motoring became firmly established , the brigade was not only the district 's guardian but also one of its greatest attractions . |
| 23 | This would deny the national curriculum one of its greatest strengths and would expose schools to blame for not playing a co-operative role in the mix of better education and training which is needed . |
| 24 | The Benthamite approach had its greatest impact in respect of one of its greatest points of difference from Beccarian classicism : the form punishment should take . |
| 25 | Because of its greater exposure to the elements — sun , wind and heat — your facial skin is especially prone to moisture loss . |
| 26 | Olivine typically settles faster than plagioclase because of its greater density contrast with basaltic magma , so a layer of plagioclase is left behind ( Fig.1 ) . |
| 27 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |
| 28 | Because of this , and because of its greater length , it would be more obtrusive in the context than Katherine Mansfield 's sentence , and would attach greater importance to the door-shutting than seems to be required . |
| 29 | Strategic planning , because of its greater time horizon , must rely on long term forecasts and is therefore more uncertain . |
| 30 | Objective assessment with tympanometry shows longer durations because of its greater sensitivity compared with otoscopy ( 7.8 years , 4.9 years , 4.0 years , and 2.8 years , respectively ) . |