Example sentences of "the great [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prevalent winds are those which blow with the greatest frequency at any place . |
| 2 | The greatest discovery at the College in the early days was that of mauve , the first aniline dye , by W. H. Perkin in 1856 during an attempt to synthesize quinine . |
| 3 | Prospects : Unlikely , as its implications and perils understood ; and , of the four strategies , it would demand the greatest unity at the top . |
| 4 | The greatest problem at the orientation stage is getting the balance between orientation and more advanced instruction . |
| 5 | The extremes of the distribution mark the greatest elevation of 8.8 km above sea level ( Mount Everest ) and the greatest depression at more than 11 km below sea level ( the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean ) . |
| 6 | She covers the greatest distance at night while they 're all asleep . |
| 7 | Just as the O'Jay 's ‘ Love Train ’ and Silver Convention 's ‘ Fly Robin Fly ’ were intimately related , so the cheapest , nastiest nosebleed rave track is a distant cousin to the greatest night at Paradise Garage . |
| 8 | Lately the greatest successes at the Museum of Fine Arts have been ‘ Renoir ’ , ‘ Monet in the Nineties ’ and ‘ Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art ’ . |
| 9 | I mean , there it is : he was the greatest artist at least to me of our century . |
| 10 | The greatest threat at the moment to the preservation of data resources is lack of a business case and the proliferation of high-powered stand-alone or ‘ negatively networked ’ computers in organisations . |
| 11 | Geologists have found water deeper than 10 kilometres , but the greatest depth at which water actively circulates is usually about a kilometre . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , assuming a practical drilling depth limit of around 6 km , which is also about the greatest depth at which economic gas could reasonably be expected to survive even assuming conservative palaeogeothermal gradients ( as discussed later ) , it is clear that exploration is likely to be confined to the hanging wall of the thrust system for all except a narrow zone adjacent to the Variscan Front . |
| 13 | One of the greatest allies at present is the church itself . |
| 14 | First appearing as a newly created knight of the household of Edward II in November 1311 , he rapidly became a central figure at court , obtaining in April 1317 one of the greatest prizes at the king 's disposal : marriage to Margaret de Clare , widow of the former royal favourite , Piers Gaveston , Earl of Cornwall [ q.v. ] , and co-heiress to the estates of her brother , Gilbert de Clare , ninth Earl of Gloucester [ q.v. ] , who had died at Bannockburn . |
| 15 | He regards it as the greatest force at man 's disposal . |
| 16 | " It has been dinned into the ears of our members without hesitation or scruple , and we repeat with the greatest force at our command that seamen , to whatever class they may belong , are false to themselves , to their cause and to their country in taking any course that may , even in the smallest degree , weaken the hands of those responsible for the conduct of the present campaign against the most ignoble foe that it has ever become Britain 's duty to tackle " . |
| 17 | This is the best measure of fitness , since it expresses the greatest rate at which an individual can exert himself . |
| 18 | The great council at Paderborn was also attended by ambassadors from Saracen Spain , with a surprising offer of homage from Soliman Ibn-al-Arabi and Kasmin Ibn-Yussuf . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that Edward acted upon this request : in 1289 a specific judge of appeals ( unusjurisperitus judex appellacionum ) was created to handle cases arising from the court of Gascony , and a number of assemblies took place which gathered together the prelates , barons , knights and other nobles of the duchy , culminating in the great council at which Edward 's judicial and administrative ordinance ( 1289 ) for the future government of Aquitaine was promulgated . |
| 20 | Filling a day is n't difficult in Paris — if expense is a major concern the great cemetery at Père Lachaise , complete with Jim Morrison 's grave and attendant junkies , graffiti etc. is well worth a look . |
| 21 | They reached the great river at Old Melrose , at the foot of Lauderdale , and followed it down to Kelso , where they had made contact with Sir Simon Fraser , who was not exactly besieging Balliol in Roxburgh Castle but containing him there , with the Warden 's force , to prevent him joining Edward Plantagenet at Berwick . |
| 22 | ONE of the great omissions at this year 's Oscars was the lack of a nomination for Kevin Kline 's dazzling performance as Douglas Fairbanks in Richard Attenborough 's Chaplin . |
| 23 | We could see the entrance to the great square at the end of the street . |
| 24 | The great park at Petworth was described by Arthur Young in 1793 as previously consisting only of ‘ bushes , furze , some timber and rubbish of no kind of use ’ . |
| 25 | The sizes of Romano-British mosaics range between those of the great pavements at Woodchester , Glos. , ( 227 sq . |
| 26 | Barbirolli 's famously self-indulgent late Debussy recordings , La Mer and the Nocturnes , really do n't show the great man at his best , though there is no denying the conviction and enormous affection which sir John brings to these pieces . |
| 27 | Here the King 's exotic evergreens were housed during the winter and plans were made for extensive alterations at Hampton Court and for the great gardens at Blenheim and Longleat . |
| 28 | He had paused before the great mirror at the far end of the room , straightening the collar of his uniform jacket , when the door behind him opened . |
| 29 | Outside , the storm continued furiously all night , and in the morning we discovered that the great tree at the bottom of the garden , which had stood for hundreds of years , had been hit by lightning and torn in half . |
| 30 | This resistance has survived the death of the Great Enchanter at the hands of Koenigswald . |