Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as now , coal provided the fuel for much the greater part of the country 's electricity . |
| 2 | The document has a dual interest : its own intrinsic historical value ; and the insight it provides into the thinking of perhaps the greatest technician of the Cabinet machine in Cabinet Office history . |
| 3 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 4 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 5 | Recently signed to Gilles Peterson 's Talkin' Loud label at Phonogram , it 's here that they 've gathered to address the question of how the Great British music press is going to receive them . |
| 6 | A good idea of how the great Norman towers looked when they were built is provided by the large , pilgrimage church at Southwell ( 296 ) . |
| 7 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |
| 8 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 9 | It would seem no coincidence that the colleges with perhaps the greatest reputation for innovation are moving towards the Council 's fold ’ . |
| 10 | In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body . |
| 11 | Has the time not come to investigate the factors which led to the move west from the 13 colonies in North America , to consider how these might be created to apply to a move east from the Urals to provide a similar development in potentially the greatest storehouse of raw materials and energy ? |
| 12 | Layton 's ebullience was on a par with Ezra Pound 's ‘ showmanship ’ , and Leonard now found himself not so very far from where the great revolutionary poet ( of Imagism , Vortism etc. ) was actually incarcerated . |
| 13 | Here I lie on this crimson equatorial shore , far from where the great electronic city dissolves itself under its own photochemical smogs . |
| 14 | Holland , the only country lying mainly below sea level , is understandably obsessed by the sea , but this went too far even for even the greatest patriots . |
| 15 | Given , therefore , that the company has come about essentially through private means , it must be understood as a private body , to be run by the corporators for their own self-selected purposes , and without any obligation to further the greater good . |
| 16 | The quiet despair showed we still abide by the old maxim ( written by an American , actually ) about when the great scorer comes he cares not who won or lost but how you played the game . |
| 17 | Come , Sergeant ! ’ it cried , and all at once the great yellow beast turned and climbed the far bank … and disappeared . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By far the greatest worries were those of divided families . |
| 20 | By far the greatest proportion of those joining the new congregations were Presbyterians and they were mostly from rural areas . |
| 21 | In Bavaria , most of which was overwhelmingly Catholic , by far the greatest unrest was provoked by the crude attempt to remove crucifixes from school classrooms . |
| 22 | From the data on cropping it was seen that grass made up by far the greatest proportion of arable hectares . |
| 23 | By far the greatest amount of time was spent in journeys to town for spare parts , veterinary medicines , etc. , or as in one case , where the wife was particularly active , to check the livestock prices with a view to selling cattle . |
| 24 | These then , have by far the greatest effect on living things . |
| 25 | John Evans ( 1990 ) in some research on Australian play times found that by far the greatest percentage of interactions recorded invoked the teacher in an authoritarian role , issuing requests and orders to children . |
| 26 | Three different palladium rods were tried of various diameters : the thickest rod gave by far the greatest effect . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Most of the owl assemblages show only slight loss of the distal elements , but the short-eared owl and great grey owl produce greater loss , the little owl , kestrel and hen harrier greater still , and the spotted eagle owl by far the greatest . |
| 29 | By far the greatest effort in public library user education is in library promotion or , more specifically , bringing the non-user to the library . |
| 30 | By far the greatest proportion of the world 's metals mines are in places where the relatively old mineral-bearing rock is near to the surface . |