Example sentences of "to the great [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it is noticeable that Italy 's most successful industries are those which are subjected to the greatest degree of competition domestically , such as the tile and ceramic producers , or the clothing business . |
| 2 | The following description covers the main railway machinery , which applies to the great majority of railway employees in BR . |
| 3 | The music is all very appealing , but the move to the Great Hall of University College School and the larger forces involved have produced potentially difficult problems of layout . |
| 4 | This is , more or less , the orthodox view of where we , the citizens of the Western democracies , stand in relation to the great principle of democracy . |
| 5 | His family packed him off to the great University of Nuln where they hoped his energies would be dispersed in academic study . |
| 6 | He combined the best English traditions of amateur science and patronage by the landed gentry , to the great benefit of mathematics . |
| 7 | On the whole , this is to the great benefit of government , especially conservative governments which thrive on secrecy , paranoia , a paternalistic control of information and protecting us from outside harm . |
| 8 | The rewards , financial and social , were commensurate with this , to the great benefit of family and community alike . |
| 9 | I have studied in Byzantium and Trezibond , and travelled across the land to the great Cham of Tartary . |
| 10 | Finally , as everyone knows , Jewish faith in the one God who alone was fit to govern Israel led to the Great Revolt of A.D. 66–70 . |
| 11 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 12 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |
| 13 | It consists of four Sundays leading up to the great Feast of Christmas , four weeks of waiting and expectation . |
| 14 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 15 | At one end of the stableyard the walls of the kitchen garden joined the backs of the loose boxes — an archway crowned by a belfry was built across the carriage-way leading out of the yard to the great swirl of gravel in front of the house , and onwards down the avenue . |
| 16 | Daly draws attention to the great number of submarine banks and lagoons of atolls , which occur at depths of up to 90 m ( 300 ft ) . |
| 17 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 18 | As we come to the great season of Christmas , throughout the country schools and churches have been celebrating with their festivals , especially those of nine lessons and carols . |
| 19 | Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) . |
| 20 | Those are good , sound formulas for success , and they worked , to the greater glory of golf , throughout the Eighties . |
| 21 | The CNAA was by then ‘ on the move not only to the greater degree of independence in validation implied by the debate on Partnership in Validation but also towards different forms of validation , more in tune with the situation of higher education in the late seventies ’ . |
| 22 | Due to the greater degree of nationalisation which had taken place throughout Western Europe since the end of the war , it was discovered , in 1960 , that approximately forty per cent of the labour force was employed by the various governments . |
| 23 | It is possible to argue that , compared to the staff available to previous Peacetime premiers , today 's staff at Number 10 is actually smaller in relation to the greater burden of work . |
| 24 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , execution time increases with larger window sizes in a fairly linear fashion , due to the greater number of word positions to consider . |
| 26 | Presumably this might happen due to the greater amount of material to be eroded before a cut off could occur . |
| 27 | This is the distance travelled to the greater security of reformation in feeling . |