Example sentences of "great number [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great number of equestrian statues must have existed but there are scanty remains of these . |
| 2 | These figures backed up comments from a great number of part-time farmers that the off-farm job was a financial necessity as opposed to a choice . |
| 3 | A great number of federal nave ships have congregated in the Kornati National Reserve , and we fear that the area 's unique geomorphology and marine life may be threatened by mines they have left . |
| 4 | So though these remarks are addressed to beginners , I believe that some of the formal ideas could well be considered anew by the great number of talented young composers who are either clambering up the rungs of the ladder of fame or jostling for a foothold . |
| 5 | The virtually complete Student Five Nations Championship with fixtures played on the Friday preceding senior Five Nations matches , and the U21 Divisional Championship taking place on the Sundays following the last three Five Nations matches involving England , not only poses problems for players faced with selection for both , but also puts a great number of young players in the limelight as the Development Squad for the future is gradually moulded and refined . |
| 6 | Because there are a great number of possible tissue types it takes an extremely large register of prospective donors to find a matched unrelated donor for every patient and sometimes the search is unsuccessful . |
| 7 | The pronounced increase in latitudinal temperature zonation through the course of the Cainozoic , as the world altered progressively from its Mesozoic condition of equability , must have had the effect of creating a great number of ecological niches . |
| 8 | Leland regularly noted quarries on his-travels ; doubtless the one at Dursley , Gloucs. , was the reason for the great number of poor labourers there . |
| 9 | This fragmentation of the state , with the ‘ coexistence of a great number of autonomous centres of power , all weakly linked to each other ’ ( Burgi 1985 : 137 ) makes more difficult the definition and co-ordination of public enterprise objectives . |
| 10 | There exists however a very great number of variant routes on the numerous well defined walking paths that make this area a great favourite with Swiss visitors who enjoy walking holidays off the beaten track . |
| 11 | Like them , Fukase also has the ability to link imagery in a complicated sequence , so that a great number of disparate subjects can be — surprisingly — unified . |
| 12 | A great number of new by-roads came into existence as a result of the enclosure movement . |
| 13 | In the ensuing years a great number of new mines came under the aegis of Johnnies and prior to the opening of the Rand Refinery in 1922 , all the gold from JCI 's mines on the Witwatersrand , was refined in the UK by JM . |
| 14 | I have a great number of new and interesting species to make known etc. but have an idea of making it my next illustrative work . |
| 15 | Independently of a great number of new Birds I succeeded in procuring the nests and eggs of at least two thirds of the species inhabiting that interesting region . |
| 16 | Evergreen shrubs with variegated foliage are a valuable insurance , although a great number of hardy plants usually succeed in blooming even in the severest season . |
| 17 | A great number of small prizes rather than just one or two big prizes gives more winners and more satisfaction . |
| 18 | ‘ There was a great number of rural workers at the doors of the new factories looking for employment . |
| 19 | The difference now , however , is that such arguments are multiplied many times over , both by the much more extensive use of technology and the great number of technological developments which appear so quickly and exist at the same time . |
| 20 | He was welcomed by the local clergy and a great number of other leading figures in the community . |
| 21 | There , Muffat recalls , he had heard , some while earlier , several of Corelli 's concertos played by a great number of instrumental players . |
| 22 | Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ? |
| 23 | Furthermore , Lord MacMillan observed that ‘ the categories of negligence are never closed ’ , thus leaving the way open for the broadening of the concept of negligence and its later application to a great number of different situations . |
| 24 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 25 | This program is better than a great number of Commercial drawing packages for children . |
| 26 | In an Act of 1662 in the reign of Charles II there is reference to ‘ a great number of lewd disorderly and lawless persons , being thieves and robbers , who are commonly called Moss-troopers ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ A great number of flying fish flying about the ship . |
| 28 | Assembled in the church were a great number of turbanned priests , holding silver crosses , and deacons wearing coloured vestments and silver crowns . |
| 29 | And thirdly , his world contained a great number of Christian knights , professional warriors , lords of unrule : if he could but find a holy cause , a just war , God 's war , for them to engage in outside the frontiers of Europe , what might they not achieve , what peace might not come to Christendom ? |
| 30 | In fact , a great number of royal charters were not written by royal chaplains , but by scribes of the beneficiaries ; and there is grave doubt whether the English monarchs of the tenth and early eleventh centuries employed any professional scribes at all . |