Example sentences of "great [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You called the half-mortals out of Andernesse , and broke the spell-wall which was the last and greatest protection against the dark . |
| 2 | It is one of the remarkable features of the Bible that it contains enough to occupy the greatest intellects for a lifetime , and yet the simplest soul can read and understand , and in reading with an obedient heart find God himself . |
| 3 | ‘ I have the greatest admiration for the Vanbrugh Quartet … their integrity and commitment ensure their continuing success . ’ |
| 4 | It is too much to hope that EMI will raid its archives for Solomon 's Chopin , Debussy or Haydn but to keep the work of one of the greatest exponents of the Beethoven sonatas under wraps for so long ( the sonata recordings were last issued in 1972 ) is simply incredible ; especially considering the efforts EMI have gone to in issuing the Beethoven recordings of others . |
| 5 | To foster in pupils a love of literature , to encourage their awareness of its unique relationship to human experience and to promote in them a sense of excitement in the power and potential of language can be one of the greatest joys of the English teacher . |
| 6 | One account of an 18th-century visit to a draper 's talks of the proprietors as being ‘ … positively the greatest fops in the kingdom ’ . |
| 7 | One of the greatest drains on the exchequer has been the war in the south . |
| 8 | It 's his greatest weakness as a counsellor . |
| 9 | However , herein lies the Army 's greatest weakness in the bargaining process . |
| 10 | However , all of our established clients will also be visiting us at our showrooms where they know we retain our most important pieces which are shown to their greatest advantage in a purpose built gallery rather than on temporary stands . |
| 11 | He argued that sociability , not ferociousness , is the greatest advantage in the struggle for survival . |
| 12 | In fact , the three greatest masterpieces in the collection could not have been sold outside Germany in any case , being on its list of national treasures : the quarto thirteenth-century Hildesheim Psalter ; the Sacramentary in uncials ; and the Nibelungen manuscript ‘ C ’ . |
| 13 | Prospects : Unlikely , as its implications and perils understood ; and , of the four strategies , it would demand the greatest unity at the top . |
| 14 | It is just too easy to write , ‘ a famous and aristocratic connection of the Royal Family ’ ; ‘ a famous socialite ’ ; and the idiotically phrased , ‘ a possessor of one of the greatest titles in the land ’ . |
| 15 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 16 | ‘ She is one of the greatest artists in the world , ’ says Koons of his muse . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's one of the greatest artists in the world , my favourite artist in the world . |
| 18 | Now here was a boy who listened stolidly while Hugo read to him some of the greatest literature in the world ; who yawned over Villon ; who stared out of the window longingly while Hugo read Maupassant or Flaubert . |
| 19 | Perhaps the single greatest function of the house concerns money : the house takes the initiative in dealing with the President 's requests for appropriations and revenue-raising suggestions and the Senate acts on what the house produces . |
| 20 | Above all , the Grand Army had in command the greatest warrior of the age : the Emperor . |
| 21 | Not only trees but almost all groups of animals and plants exhibit their greatest variety in the tropics in terms of the number of species recorded there . |
| 22 | While this is seen within Total Communication programmes in education , there is no doubt that acceptance of BSL , ASL and so on offers the greatest hope for the development of effective education for deaf children . |
| 23 | On the face of it , the greatest guarantor of the reliability of the WTO armed forces might appear to be the 550 000–600 000 Soviet forces stationed on their national territories , the overwhelming majority of which ( 20 divisions ) are deployed in the GDR ( Group Soviet Forces Germany , HQ Zossen-Wunsdorf ) . |
| 24 | It is in these far-reaching acres of wilderness that the greatest glory of the country is to be found — the untamed wildlife which proliferates here . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , back on the box , coverage of the 11th Winter Olympic Games was getting under way in Sapporo , Japan , with Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy billed as ‘ the greatest skier in the world ’ among the commentators . |
| 26 | In spite of some bickering and belittling of Richardson at the time , it was later acknowledged that by far the greatest part of the credit for its successful completion belonged to him . |
| 27 | Some would say that it is the greatest part of the fun in aerial photography to achieve positive results by covering the target area with some precision . |
| 28 | I hardly know anybody but what does ; the greatest part of the inhabitants do . " |
| 29 | But then at Vladimir , Holly had been segregated from the mass of the zeks , the convicts who formed the greatest part of the prison population . |
| 30 | Moreover , as the chart also shows , the greatest part of the improvement appears to have taken place in the last few days — or even hours — of the campaign . |