Example sentences of "great [noun] of [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life . |
| 2 | Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music . |
| 3 | While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera . |
| 4 | The Midlands has the greatest concentration of motorways in the country — 350 miles which last year witnessed nearly a thousand serious or fatal accidents , |
| 5 | The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise . |
| 6 | There is little doubt that some of the greatest sources of evil in the world can be traced to the gross abuse of that area of human activity which is termed ‘ religion ’ . |
| 7 | The great variety of creatures in the Burgess Shales is a reminder of how incomplete our knowledge is of all fossil faunas . |
| 8 | Sailing away from the wind is known as running and you 've got great freedom of choice in the exact course you pick , you can even sail dead downwind . |
| 9 | The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares , to which this chapter refers . |
| 10 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 12 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |
| 13 | They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route . |
| 14 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
| 15 | Their ‘ soft ’ attitude to the Poles lost the Nazis a great deal of support In the 1935 Volkstag elections . |
| 16 | To judge from that response , I think that my hon. Friend has a great deal of support in the House . |
| 17 | There is a great deal of support in the EC for such a discriminatory tax , eventually rising to as much as $10 a barrel . |
| 18 | Paradoxically , Gill and Jackson 's book appeared at a t–me when there was a great deal of activity in the black community directed towards finding black families for black children , thereby making it progressively unnecessary for transracial placements to continue . |
| 19 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 20 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 21 | There is a great deal of variety in the work of the ES and this booklet should help you see the bigger picture — of how you can help to provide a vital service to the public . |
| 22 | Two issues produced a great deal of agitation in the country . |
| 23 | However , we will have to cover a great deal of territory in a limited space if the cost of this book is not to become prohibitive . |
| 24 | You have a great deal of choice in the matter but there are also certain rules designed to protect you . |
| 25 | This relationship entails that speakers can exercise a great deal of choice in the way they encode their meanings ; for example , even if questions ( i.e. requests for information or for action ) occur in a text , there is no guarantee that they will be realized syntactically as interrogatives ; there is no simple isomorphic relationship between function and form . |
| 26 | Clearly , the hearer is left with a great deal of responsibility in the interpretation process . |
| 27 | Disney has a good record on bringing in projects on time , and there is a great deal of faith in the Eurodisney management . |
| 28 | IMO Whilst I believe Leeds are capable of scoring goals away from home , I do not have a great deal of faith in the team 's ability to defend when put under pressure . |
| 29 | Recall from Chapter 22 that the monetarists put a great deal of faith in the observed correlation between changes in the money supply and changes in national income . |
| 30 | There was a great deal of speculation in the Western press during October concerning the position of President Hafez al-Assad 's brother , Col. Rifaat al-Assad . |