Example sentences of "a great part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 2 | Particularly in doing a great part like Juliet which we toured in all kinds of places before coming here to the Other Place venue . |
| 3 | Indeed a great part of The German Ideology is concerned with this process , which Marx and Engels discuss under the label of the origin of ‘ consciousness ’ . |
| 4 | With a great part of the matters with which they dealt we have not much concern . |
| 5 | ‘ A great part of the Bible is to show us that all creatures are in God 's hand , and that He will either make our afflictions work together for good , or remove them . |
| 6 | Edward I nominated magnates like Hugh Despenser the elder , who was absent from England on the king 's service during a great part of the ten years 1297–1307 when he was Justice of the Forest south of Trent . |
| 7 | In Rutland the jurors swore on 25 July that a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry II , though there is evidence that this had been done by Henry I. Subsequent returns for Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Somerset also demanded extensive disafforestments . |
| 8 | This is a great part of the pleasure Matthew Spender found ; discovering craftsmen , for example , one of whom remembered who had built a palazzo in Florence , another who hid in the cellar for fear of thunderstorms , yet another who built him beehives . |
| 9 | As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship . |
| 10 | It 's the end of a great chapter in both our lives — we have I 'm sure both played a great part , each in the other 's . |
| 11 | ‘ Though he is famous for the extension of his territories and conquests in which he is constantly engaged , he has also started many public works for the beauty and convenience of the realm ; some of these he has completed , and a great part of his wealth is set aside for pious honouring of his ancestors . |
| 12 | Anarchy was over and there now began the reign of one of the strongest kings ever to rule England , one whose territories and titles gave him authority over a great part of north-western Europe . |
| 13 | There is one newcomer , however , that is only now finding its market but which could play a great part in feeding the world 's people ; and that is a man-made cereal , a hybrid , called triticale . |
| 14 | It is an apt example for people in the government machine who , according to Roith , have a great part to play in sowing the seeds of industrial success . |
| 15 | In that warmer climate , a great part of life takes place in the streets or in the piazza and the dogs are left to wander as they wish . ’ |
| 16 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 17 | A French engineer officer , Major Berthois de la Rousselière , and a companion disguised themselves as British seamen and during April ‘ made several tours of the fortifications on the outside , and of a great part on the inside ’ of the town . |
| 18 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 19 | It soon forced the back door out , and then took away a great part of his furniture . |
| 20 | Luck plays a great part in success and as mine would have it , I was chosen for the pre-Christmas show . |
| 21 | The earliest recorded raid took place in 895 , when a Danish force on its way to lay siege to Exeter was heavily beaten in an attack on Chichester , losing a great part of its numbers . |
| 22 | It was no coicidence that he and Robson played a great part in the win over Oldham that ended our lean spell . |
| 23 | Such values are probably roughly true and they show fairly vividly how a great part of the load in a material is concentrated upon a single line of atomic bonds at the tip of a sharp crack , remembering of course that a material is a solid and that a crack tip is a line in a three-dimensional picture . |
| 24 | ‘ If a man will take a view of all Popery ’ , wrote the late sixteenth-century Calvinist theologian William Perkins , ‘ he shall easily see that a great part of it is mere magic . ’ |
| 25 | The Elves still have a great part to play before the final act of their long drama is played out . |
| 26 | Ostland lies on the far side of the Middle Mountains and a great part of it is occupied by the Forest of Shadows . |
| 27 | We 're sure Alan Sugar will be pleased to know he still has one fan left , and we have to admit that he did play a great part in bringing PCs to the masses . |
| 28 | Henry was allowed to assume the title of Earl of Lancaster and to receive a great part of the Lancaster inheritance , but the Lacy earldom of Lincoln , which Earl Thomas had held in right of his wife , was not fully recovered until 1348 . |
| 29 | Froissart remarked that ‘ the greatest and the grandest among them sometimes went for six days without tasting bread ’ , and Walsingham observed that ‘ a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease and almost all their horses died ’ . |
| 30 | Rembrandt spent a great part of his life in Amsterdam and many of his works were painted in the city . |