Example sentences of "great [noun] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1981 , for example , with the exception of the West Midlands , Wales experienced the greatest loss of jobs of any region in Great Britain . |
| 2 | This , perhaps the greatest monument in stone of English canal engineering , is over a thousand feet long and 121 feet above the river . |
| 3 | Although admittedly criticizing some of his own work Hewitt ( 1983 ) believes that the perspective of this dominant view could be the single greatest impediment to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of natural disasters research , because it fails to recognize how the roots and occurrence of contemporary disasters depend upon the way ‘ normal everyday life turns out to have become abnormal ’ . |
| 4 | When he has been a Christian for three years , we find him , in the pages of his brother 's diary , reading The Epistle to the Romans , the greatest exposition in Scripture of the themes of Original Sin , Grace and Justification by Faith . |
| 5 | Tip O'Neill is instructive on the differences between the two administrations in these matters : Being ‘ helped out ’ in one 's district was a matter of the greatest importance to members of the House of Representatives , the forum where Reagan 's legislative strategists would face their severest test . |
| 6 | Yet of all people the British seem to take the greatest pride in suppression of emotion . |
| 7 | In newsrooms libel is the greatest inhibition upon freedom of speech , although it also serves as a spur to accuracy and professionalism . |
| 8 | Imaginary time is a difficult concept to grasp , and it is probably the one that has caused the greatest problems for readers of my book . |
| 9 | Edinburgh is known as ‘ The University in the City ’ and this description is clearly reflected in the great variety of types of accommodation available to Edinburgh University students and in its situation , with most students living in accommodation which is an integral part of the city . |
| 10 | The great variety of form of the hard parts surely shows that trilobites were adapted to a wide range of habitats and life styles . |
| 11 | East Lindsey is an area of Lincolnshire blessed with a very great variety of attractions of interests . |
| 12 | Mr. Levy has very great experience of cases of this type and Ward J. suggested that he be consulted . |
| 13 | and the trade union movement , the liberation struggle , when you look at it it gives you great hope in terms of human capacity but they will need other kinds of help in order to reconstruct and let me say this because it is important and I do n't say it with any kind of arrogance we have one kind of miracle occurring in South Africa that people ignore and that is that out of the hell of racism we have produced a leadership which is the strongest leadership in the world against racism . |
| 14 | The great wave of privatisations of the 1980s removed a large number of bodies , mainly nationalised industries , from the schedule of public record bodies to which the Act applied . |
| 15 | Proponents of the Human Genome Project imagine great progress in diagnosis of diseases and in their therapy . |
| 16 | Lazy people develop great cunning in ways of getting by without working . |
| 17 | If we recognise that background , however , we must also recognise the reality , and the enormity , of what has happended in Croatia — and recognise that the great majority of acts of wanton wickedness have been perpetrated by the forces of a state that has , by all normal criteria , forfeited its right to be recognised as a sovereign independent nation . |
| 18 | Moreover , the great majority of members of the fishing communities of the United Kingdom were either not affected by the Act at all or severely disadvantaged by it . |
| 19 | The great majority of nationals of the member state in question are resident and domiciled in that state and therefore meet that requirement automatically , whereas nationals of other member states would , in most cases , have to move their residence and domicile to that state in order to comply with the requirements of its legislation . |
| 20 | There was first a minor raid on Exeter on a Thursday night , followed the next night by a much larger raid , which caused great damage to parts of the town . |
| 21 | These sudden changes of plan caused great damage to parts of the building which were completed . |
| 22 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 23 | As one with a consuming interest in spiritual matters for most of his 74 years , and with a great deal of experience of communicating with those who have ‘ passed over ’ , he presents an optimistic view which , he hopes , will appeal to the general public . |
| 24 | Terry 's family , unlike he himself , had n't had a great deal of experience of the world outside the States , so Peg had had an awful lot to learn . |
| 25 | Since these experiences will have been in the schools in which the workshop teachers teach , it is obvious that there will be a great deal of sharing of ideas before the actual presentations and their subsequent discussions take place . |
| 26 | I know that there have been improvements , but as I represent part of the country where the climate is meteorologically colder , I know that there is a great deal of scope of increases in the support that we provide for heating allowances for our elderly population . |
| 27 | In fact where there is a great deal of evidence of use , this could be a substitute for poor employment practice which has failed to take account of matching manpower/patient needs . |
| 28 | In some areas the agency model holds good ( for example , county councils serve as agents of the Department of Transport in constructing motorways and trunk roads ) but in general it conveys an exaggerated picture of central domination , particularly as there is a great deal of evidence of continued local discretion in service provision . |
| 29 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 30 | It suggests that translating between languages with different priorities and different types of syntactic restrictions necessarily involves a great deal of skewing of patterns of information flow . |