Example sentences of "great [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silver smiles A GREAT variety of activities marked the silver jubilee of the Holy Family Primary School in Sale . |
| 2 | In general , the assistants undertook a great variety of activities , many of them frequently . |
| 3 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 4 | As he roams the countryside he learns to distinguish a great variety of birds , animals , insects , trees , grasses , fruits and flowers . |
| 5 | But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other . |
| 6 | He supported a great variety of movements both by his presence and financially , including temperance , welfare , council housing , and education . |
| 7 | The method used for a particular analysis depends on a great variety of factors including the analyst 's expertise , the time available , the situations accessible for study , the related information already available , the purpose of the analysis and so on . |
| 8 | From the case-histories compiled by allergists treating such children , it seems that most are sensitive to a great variety of things , including pollens , house dust , food additives and household chemicals . |
| 9 | I mean th a great variety of things are depressing but can you identify what makes you depressed ? |
| 10 | And informal , we came up with a great variety of things . |
| 11 | Elderly people and their families who wish to ‘ go it alone , so far as obtaining outside help is concerned are , of course , quite at liberty to do so , and four of the large organisations who can give advice on a great variety of problems are : |
| 12 | Due to the great variety of approaches for organizing innovative projects , it is difficult to classify them . |
| 13 | Furthermore , if this is really understood , this purpose can be achieved through a great variety of approaches with regard both to content and method . |
| 14 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers . |
| 15 | Construction : A great variety of options are available . |
| 16 | Reinhardt put on , not just modernist , but a great variety of plays . |
| 17 | After the banning of The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall was denied the recognition she deserved for her mastery of the narrative technique of interior monologue and as a writer who dealt with a great variety of themes , such as World War I , materialism , Catholicism , and the suppression of women by patriarchal society . |
| 18 | The formation of Purbeck left the so-called Island with a great variety of strata which resulted in the striking scenery of Swanage and its bays , cliffs and headlands . |
| 19 | Eventually , among a great variety of substances , there appeared one that was to be crucial for the further development of life . |
| 20 | Some of the artists Edward Burra , Sheila Fell , Henri GaudierBrzeska , Ivon Hitchens , Tom McGuinness and Keith Vaughan are represented twice , but for the most part the individual works of others are grouped under a great variety of headings . |
| 21 | An implication , of course , is not only that marriage and the family have taken a great variety of forms , but that when political and economic conditions change in the future they will continue to change . |
| 22 | In the Carboniferous a great variety of forms with highly zig-zag suture lines are a distinctive group of ammonoids usually known as goniatites . |
| 23 | The great variety of creatures in the Burgess Shales is a reminder of how incomplete our knowledge is of all fossil faunas . |
| 24 | The continued increase in Population accentuated the hardships for the Peasants : a great variety of taxes to pay ; the price of imported wheat continually rising , when most peasants could manage to grow only enough food to last them three months ; and the vines and potatoes suffered blight and disease . |
| 25 | There is a great variety of schemes and great variation in the degree to which schools are fully comprehensive : if some schools in an area take the children who are thought to have greater academic ability , the remaining schools , even if called comprehensive , can not be considered fully so . |
| 26 | Nerve cells , or neurons , come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and perform a great variety of functions . |
| 27 | Some would go further and argue that the wide-ranging emphasis of records of achievement on recording a great variety of skills and personal qualities , as well as specific attainments , is a reenactment of the old elementary school concern with civic virtue and Godliness as well as basic competence in the ‘ three R's ’ ( Hargreaves , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | From very small beginnings , by 1990 about 1,500 plants employed almost half a million workers producing a great variety of goods . |
| 29 | The external surface of the cuticle , in addition to being sculptured in various ways , bears a great variety of outgrowths which are integral parts of its substance . |
| 30 | The operator is assumed to be reacting to a situation in a control room , containing a great variety of dials , charts , and computer driven displays together with the controls needed to take action in any part of the system . |