Example sentences of "great [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 2 | David 's step-brother , Terry , was also a great influence on David in the early years . |
| 3 | Haeckel 's disciple Gustav Schwalbe created a linear progressive sequence from the great apes to Pithecanthropus to the Neanderthals and finally to modern humans . |
| 4 | The Accords were negotiated despite great problems within NATO in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | Wizzard Artist , who ran on Lingfield 's all-weather Flat course a fortnight ago , completed a great day for Davies with a slick , 12 lengths win in the Jevington Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 6 | It was Pappus , one of the great mathematicians of Alexandria in the fourth century AD , who recognised that space could be filled by a moving point . |
| 7 | Perhaps in the spirit of the man threatened with bankruptcy who throws a lavish party to confuse his creditors , Napoleon III , confronted with this array of difficulties , organized a second spectacular Great Exhibition in Paris for the summer of 1867 . |
| 8 | The great age of Antwerp in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is inevitably the theme of the main exhibitions the year . |
| 9 | Denis Evans , secretary of the WRU , said : ‘ Both men have demonstrated their great commitment to Wales over the last nine months and have shown they have the talent and organisational ability to help generate success for the Welsh team at the highest level . ’ |
| 10 | The great call to Israel in the Old Testament is the shema , which means ‘ hear ’ . |
| 11 | In 1917 he achieved great success in America as an unofficial representative of British interests . |
| 12 | In the 16th century , the Great Road from London to the Welsh coast ran along the river 's banks , and the sheep of the mountain pastures fed the wool boom of the late Middle Ages . |
| 13 | The terrain is very varied from the great expanse of Dartmoor to the gentler stretch of Exmoor . |
| 14 | The great virtue of Cagney to the Hollywood set-up was that he could realistically depict anger , violence , and meanness without in any way suggesting that he was personally a worthless villain or that the film in which he was appearing was deliberately condoning these unpleasant qualities . |
| 15 | He had made a great reputation in Berlin between the wars . |
| 16 | And that this wealth was not locked in land or designated for heirs : it was fine fresh wealth coming into the great port of Liverpool by the month , by the week even , in the form of Ceylon tea , Indian jute , Irish coal — Mr Crump had an encyclopaedia of imports which he rattled off in diffident haste . |
| 17 | The railway ghost caused a great stir in Darlington at the time but many were very sceptical about its bona fides . |
| 18 | The diversity of the Welsh economy will be one of the greatest benefits to Wales in the years that lie ahead . |