Example sentences of "then [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had not , then the greater part of cosmology and theoretical physics would have had to be junked as so much useless scribbling . |
| 2 | Since then we have had Polly Peck , Brent Walker , the scandal of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , and then the greatest scandal of all — the Maxwell scandal . |
| 3 | It has been an evocative experience reading these articles , rolling back the years to what was then the greatest adventure of my young life , and these experiences are just as vivid today . |
| 4 | So a bedroom here , another bedroom here and then the great chamber , the most important bedroom . |
| 5 | Then the great smile came . |
| 6 | And then the great day itself — June Two Two , as they called it — it was as if the excitement could no longer be contained . |
| 7 | Then the great day dawned . |
| 8 | And then the great leader must have a domineering personality . |
| 9 | Then the great figure was gone , swallowed as soon as it turned , into the drifting dark . |
| 10 | Then the great waterway of Loch Linnhe appears ahead and the road turns alongside Corran where , at the loch 's narrowest part , a car ferry operates to the far bank , linking with the busy A.82 south of Fort William . |
| 11 | ‘ And then the Great Vale , with the Great River , which we must follow north to Talisker . ’ |
| 12 | He had expected to be the deliverer of the news and then the great consoler , but Mrs Hogan was making light of it . |
| 13 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 14 | Then a great storm started . |
| 15 | Then a great elk passed by , trapped in the tangles of the wood . |
| 16 | And then a great scientist , Rassilon , led the people into the scientific age . |
| 17 | And then a great wave breaks over me and I emerge into full consciousness . |
| 18 | These captives may even have been used to lure and help catch wild elephants of which there were then a great number . |
| 19 | ‘ Then a great feast at the Palace . |
| 20 | And then a great lurch and pit-pat pit-pat pat-pat-pat-pat-pat-pat-pat , racing until she wanted to hold it , rein it in , for this was surely worse , this would overtax the heart muscles , until it fell , exhausted , this was a race to death . |
| 21 | The lake was fringed with a shore of sandy pebbles and then a great curve of grass swept up to the terrace of thr house . |
| 22 | He lowered the gun and got control of himself , then raised it again , but the laughter returned : a grimace , a flutter , and then a great stream of bubbles inside , floating up , jouncing his chest , until tears blurred the figures in the scope . |
| 23 | George felt rather than saw the swing of the camera that was aiming over his own left shoulder at Gerrard , felt it move backward , and then a great surge of apprehension came up into his chest , drying his mouth and clogging his throat . |
| 24 | And he wanted to do this because he thought that if it were possible , if we could start just from our own sense experiences , then a great simplification would have been achieved . |
| 25 | But then a great thing happened . |
| 26 | Since then a great deal has been learnt about its role in the pathogenesis of non-specific genital infection . |
| 27 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |
| 28 | If groups of children use the program then a great deal of peer-group tutoring goes on , though supervision is needed to prevent the brighter child moving on before they all understand . |
| 29 | Then a great mountain of a wave came , with white angry teeth , and the little boat went down behind it . |
| 30 | If , as is likely , NHS employees then seek and obtain wage increases in line with other increases in earnings , then a greater amount of resources will be needed to fund them . |