Example sentences of "[art] great [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE greatest survey ever into sexual habits reveals that the Great Aids Scare never became the nightmare that was feared . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , in the year 1880 , what came to be viewed as the greatest injustice ever to be perpetrated against deaf people occurred in September when the highly-misleading International Congress of Teachers of Deaf-Mutes was convened in Milan , Italy . |
| 3 | Liverpool v Aston Villa The greatest test yet of Villa 's remarkable resurgence . |
| 4 | It is , by a long way , the greatest test yet of whether he is up to the job . |
| 5 | In fact , the greatest body even of these , the urban domestic servants , did not enjoy the security of the favoured family retainers of the traditional nobility and gentry , but constantly faced insecurity in its most terrible form : instant dismissal ‘ without a character ’ , i.e. a recommendation to future employers from the former master , or more likely mistress . |
| 6 | I have a list here of people in my particular part of the profession who have pledged themselves to assist with the great drive forward for the seventy fifth anniversary . |
| 7 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 8 | Probably of greater renown than the church is the great kitchen here with its eight oven shelters each containing a central fireplace and with a great vault in the middle . |
| 9 | Benstede and Corbett then sat at the edge of a table directly beneath the great dais just as a chorus of trumpets brayed . |
| 10 | In the nightmare my father , the under-gardener , my brother and I were throwing sticks to bring down walnuts from the great tree halfway between our home and the Court . |
| 11 | Clinton agreed and we all met in the great hall just before dusk . |
| 12 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 13 | The story is told of one time Archbishop of Paris , who with two or three other of his friends as young lads they went into the great cathedral there at Notre Dame |
| 14 | The great problem however with such books is that their information dates very quickly . |
| 15 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 16 | As he swam he dreamed the Whale calm , asking the great creature politely for its cooperation in garnering that which his village needed . |
| 17 | First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower , sending it crashing back into the trees . |
| 18 | Before his time no king had needed many ships , least of all ships on demand ; the great expense both of building and of maintaining them , procedures which required special and costly facilities , had deterred kings from shipbuilding on a large scale . |
| 19 | The youth team , despite several late call-offs , put up a great performance especially in the second half when the schools needed two late tries to pull clear . |
| 20 | I do n't want to be saddled with a a great bill just for footpaths . |
| 21 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 22 | Earlier Paul Olsson had hit the top of the bar with a great lob early in the second half . |
| 23 | As far as I can judge , there is a great longing there for France , Italy and all those places where they were once unable to travel but now can . |
| 24 | Jack Edwards was Palace 's stocky , teak-tough full-back throughout the 1950s and became a great favourite here at Selhurst Park . |
| 25 | Winston Churchill , who had just been defeated as Liberal candidate for Leicester , West , declared that a Labour Government would be a ‘ national misfortune such as has usually befallen a great state only on the morrow of defeat in war ’ . |
| 26 | There is certainly , not so much a race problem between pupils , but there is a great problem here at the moment with the congregation , shall we say , of black pupils . |
| 27 | He delivered a great kick backwards at Terry Place 's shins , the edge of his boots like iron . |
| 28 | He was both courageous and physically attractive , but deranged , and it was a great relief even to his associates when he left Scotland to die a pauper in Naples . |
| 29 | These ideas were given a great push forward by the increasing impact of American thinking on British social policy from the late 1960s onward . |
| 30 | Here the Inverness-Wick rail way , which mainly follows the east coast , makes a great loop inland to Lairg Station , this being the nearest point of the line to the coastal villages of the west and north , and here the incoming mail for the whole area is deposited for distribution and the outgoing mail collected for transport on the trains . |