Example sentences of "[art] great part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salcey Forest , although ‘ a valuable Property , … the greatest part of it Wood Land , fully planted , and the Soil the most excellent for the Growth of Oak ’ was nevertheless ‘ unproductive to the Proprietor ’ . |
| 2 | Moreover , as the chart also shows , the greatest part of the improvement appears to have taken place in the last few days — or even hours — of the campaign . |
| 3 | By far the greatest part of maintenance research developed by institutions of state for marginal areas has been soil conservation techniques ( outlined in Ch. 5 ) , which , as this book shows , have had to be imposed by colonial powers to be ‘ induced ’ at all . |
| 4 | Some would say that it is the greatest part of the fun in aerial photography to achieve positive results by covering the target area with some precision . |
| 5 | Devotion formed part of his life , but not , as in the case of J S Bach , the greatest part . |
| 6 | Isaacson relates how he spent ‘ many hours , yea , and the greatest part of his life , in holy prayers and abundant tears ’ . |
| 7 | But then at Vladimir , Holly had been segregated from the mass of the zeks , the convicts who formed the greatest part of the prison population . |
| 8 | The expression of pain in his face became something else entirely : in some part horror , in some part awe , but in the greatest part some sentiment for which she knew no word . |
| 9 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 10 | " that from the style of the building ( which although ancient in its design , is at the present day unique and novel ) it is almost impossible to calculate to any thing near the real cost , where the greatest part of the expense is incurred by the labour in working the , stone in the various forms on antique architecture . |
| 11 | During 1787 and 1788 Ainslie devoted the greatest part of his time to preparing his great map of Scotland . |
| 12 | In spite of some bickering and belittling of Richardson at the time , it was later acknowledged that by far the greatest part of the credit for its successful completion belonged to him . |
| 13 | The greatest part of most searches is spent in looking at record displays , so information and dialogue windows would usually overlay a portion of a bibliographic display . |
| 14 | I hardly know anybody but what does ; the greatest part of the inhabitants do . " |
| 15 | Such works are not computer-generated , the skill and expertise ( or at least the greatest part of these ) derives from the user of the system . |
| 16 | the great part which Methodism is called to play in the Providential order of the world , through its influence among those nations which seem appointed to lead the development of mankind . |
| 17 | For this reason , the great part of reports relating to warfare in this period concern sieges . |
| 18 | From Valencia , El Cid began to show his true strength , gradually extending his sway until he was virtual ruler of the great part of eastern Spain . |
| 19 | Robertson was carrying a can of Tartan Ale from which he frequently refreshed himself , and in turn denied any knowledge of the great part Sir Ralph Grunte had played for so long in the counsels of the Tory Party . |
| 20 | Employment patterns , which followed the routes of enforced segregation in favour of protestants — for they controlled the greater part of the job market and especially the major industrial enterprises and the entire government sector of civil servants and police — were even reinforced by the system of job references provided by the parish priests and catholic notables . |
| 21 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 22 | The filtered beer is tank conditioned , but the greater part of output has a secondary fermentation in the bottle . |
| 23 | The greater part of group sales are in commercial construction and civil engineering , and Galliford hopes to take advantage of increased infrastructure spending in the next deacde , particularly on water and road projects . |
| 24 | The greater part of the required prodnalog ( tax in kind ) had been collected , but several villages were fractious due to silly actions by some officials . |
| 25 | The end of the First World War was accompanied by unmistakable evidence that the population of the greater part of Ireland had no intention of remaining within the United Kingdom ; and when the attempt to force a home rule constitution upon them provoked a rebellion , Britain had to recognise defeat , but insisted upon the Irish Free State accepting what was called Canadian status by recognising the King Emperor as its representative for external purposes . |
| 26 | Mountbatten 's personal view was that the new nationalist movements should be appeased rather than suppressed and that the old colonial powers should settle for the best deal that they could get , pledging independence in the near future and thus , he hoped , preserving the greater part of their economic advantages . |
| 27 | For by far the greater part , the aesthetic is bracketed in the name of a robust historical materialism . |
| 28 | The greater part of the Scrapbook largely consists of what the editor identifies as ‘ the British inheritance ’ which covers the period from 1966 — 1988 . |
| 29 | Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level . |
| 30 | Throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century , most people were averse to official intervention in social and family affairs and the Victorian age can be seen as an era in which individualism was the leading social ethic . |