Example sentences of "place [prep] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this vision of rapid warfare there was still a place for great fortresses to provide temporary protection for frontiers and strategically vital areas during the crucial , disorganized days at the beginning of the campaign while the armies were assembling . |
| 2 | It was a place of great beauty and utter seclusion , lying in a sheltered combe on the eastern flanks of the Quantocks . |
| 3 | This was a place of great beauty and peace . |
| 4 | A steep scramble down an ivy-covered slope leads one into a place of great natural beauty alive with the earth spirit force . |
| 5 | When Kingston was a mere spot on the map , Swine was a place of great importance , with a flourishing pig market . |
| 6 | This is a very large tank indeed , a place of great natural beauty and the centrepiece of Gol-Oya National Park . |
| 7 | This shrine has long been abandoned but it is still a place of great power and of deep significance to both the Elves and the Dark Elves . |
| 8 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 9 | Its lushness and tropical variety made it a place of great beauty with winding roads and hair-pin bends giving spectacular views over the jungle . |
| 10 | Dhuoda thought of the palace as a place of great temptations . |
| 11 | But on the Friday Evening we were treated to another dinner , this one so splendid that it was designated a ‘ banquet ’ , and was held at the Peking Duck Restaurant , an eating place of great fame , specialising , like Mrs Hogg , in duck . |
| 12 | Her imagination ran riot , peopling the place with great caliphs , beautiful ladies in gossamer veils and fierce soldiers to guard the purple-red ramparts . |
| 13 | As members will know , the exhibition has since taken place with great success , but the absence of the previously planned ceremonials ( dress and food ) at my visit left me disappointed . |
| 14 | David Copperfield had taken second place to Great Expectations . |
| 15 | This semi-colonial expansion took place without great enthusiasm in St Petersburg . |
| 16 | THE SON of a Caithness crofter will take his rightful place among great Scottish inventors today when an exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the fax machine opens in London . |