Example sentences of "great [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great tall things , with smoke coming out of them . ’ |
| 2 | Furthermore , the early church ( and in particular during the great patristic era of the first five centuries AD ) , despite its many internal disagreements on matters of doctrine , saw redemption in thoroughly dramatic terms . |
| 3 | Seldes marvellously captured the great down-town appeal of the movies when he spoke of the irresistible lure of ‘ the tinkle of a tinny piano playing a ragtime ’ which floated ‘ to the street from a darkened doorway ’ but the point about the movies was that they were not just a city or down-town phenomenon , they were everywhere . |
| 4 | Perhaps consistent wins in the obedience ring or in trials by a breeder 's dogs inspires you to want to own a great working dog ; or perhaps the reason is just recommendation from a trusted friend . |
| 5 | As far as you could see there was a great undulating cushion of varied greenery , mile upon mile of leaves . |
| 6 | All along the centre of the position the Dutch had collapsed , leaving a great inviting hole into which the French could swarm , yet from the far right flank there still came the sound of reassuring volleys , proof that Saxe-Weimar 's men were defending staunchly . |
| 7 | This kind of thinking has n't featured in election campaigning , so though friends warn me that I 'll be submerged in a great placid pool of meditation , I 'm off to Dartington to gather a few hints on the ideas that ought to guide our future . |
| 8 | On the Plain of Bones , the great skeleton-covered wasteland around the Altar of Khaine , Tethlis saw something glitter . |
| 9 | What this amounts to is the under development of cities through a liberation of capital from spatial boundaries through the use of communications to allow very great spatial separation between aspects of the organization of capitalist production and the stages of the execution of that production , and a simultaneous ‘ peripheralization ’ of urban populations . |
| 10 | Its prince was to be elected by the Bulgarians , confirmed by Turkey with the assent of the powers , and was to belong to none of the great reigning houses of Europe . |
| 11 | She was lying in the mouth of the great arched chamber Buddie used as a tool-shed . |
| 12 | A great arched ceiling of close brickwork , carpets too beautiful to put a dirty shoe on . |
| 13 | Even the convent yard , just within the great arched gateway , was neatly strewn with white stone pebbles , whilst around the walls small strips of garden full of flowers gave off their own fragrant perfume . |
| 14 | It still looked very much like a castle , the interior with great arched ceilings , and Maggie was determined to enjoy everything and ignore the dark , brooding air of the man who kept her closely at his side . |
| 15 | Tonight the air was gentle and the earth green with tender things growing , but when first she met Rob a bitter wind blew from the north-east and the bombers were grounded , standing shrouded against the frost and snow like great wounded birds . |
| 16 | It lay like a great wounded butterfly on the rug . |
| 17 | The wines of this village often show great varietal character , good vinosity and fine balance . |
| 18 | Though I was , having expected one of the great historic documents of planning , bitterly disappointed with the Plan when I first studied it , I now think that in the circumstances Abercrombie did as well as any man , of the type who can survive in planning practice , could have done . |
| 19 | The Ragusans represented a way of life which was completely different from that imposed upon the Balkan peoples by the Ottoman occupation , and their influence on life in the cities was of great historic significance . |
| 20 | Earlier , Do Muoi had spoken of the " great historic significance " of the visit . |
| 21 | That is the great historic opportunity . |
| 22 | As well as great historic houses , it is important to remember that the Trust also owns over half a million acres of land and many vernacular buildings . |
| 23 | He dwelt on the " great historic victory " of 1989 , which he summed up as the " three great victories " : suppression of the counter-revolutionary riot in June , rectification of economic order , and " a new favourable turn on the ideological and political front " . |
| 24 | Like all the big bosses of the regime , he would have it on film , this great historic moment . |
| 25 | The church of All Saints stands in a hollow and is of great historic interest , dating from the 12th century . |
| 26 | In Switzerland there are very few real plains , and the term Mittelland ( in which Mittel means something like " betwixt and between " ) is applied to the great areas of pre-alpine hills and of rolling plateau country which over millenia have been settled and cultivated by the ancestors and predecessors of the Swiss , and on which have grown the great historic centres of agricultural civilisation as well as the civilisation of cities . |
| 27 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 28 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 29 | Tell me , did the great galactic public ever find out what was going on on Checkley 's World ? ’ |
| 30 | But , as the great loyalist protest rallies faded out and a section of the Official Unionist Party showed signs of succumbing to the bait of office in a new Northern Ireland Assembly , he became confident that the main danger was past and that there would be no ‘ loyalist backlash ’ . |