Example sentences of "to [be] the great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Victorian era is considered to be the great age of plant collectors , the ancient Egyptians recorded plant collecting expeditions in their hieroglyphics . |
| 2 | Eric Abbott prophesied falsely , ‘ It is to be the great work of your life ’ . |
| 3 | Adjacent to the monastery , in what used to be the Great Gate-house , is the Abbey House Museum with three reconstructed Victorian streets . |
| 4 | A lion which at the beginning of the book seems as though it might just be an escaped animal from a nearby zoo turns out to be the great Lion of Strength . |
| 5 | MARGARETE Buber-Neumann lived and suffered much in the eye of the storm of history that tore Europe apart , and died just as the world was watching incredulously what seems to be the great schism 's healing . |
| 6 | Oswald Mosley aspired to be the Great Dictator , Sir Charles Chaplin played the role better . |
| 7 | Oh yes , you worked overtime , for which there was no pay , I mean , it did n't count er You see things , you know , there was less structure about it , then , erm and you could have ti if you wanted time off for something , you 'd probably have got it fairly easily , but er it did n't seem to be the great arguments that you 've had since . |
| 8 | The GCSE was supposed to be the great leveller of examinations , a combination of the GCE O-Level — the grammar school exam — and the CSE — the comprehensive/secondary modern exam . |
| 9 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 10 | Tall windows stared bleakly down at her from what she guessed to be the great hall . |
| 11 | You 're a little young to be the great tycoon . ’ |
| 12 | It only needs a slightly increased tempo to be the great national anthem our country maybe does n't deserve , but will surely grow into when we have cast off childish things and grasped the thistle of independence . |
| 13 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |