Example sentences of "of the great [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The middle of the nineteenth century marks the beginning of the greatest migration of peoples in history . |
| 2 | To round off the evening the pope awarded prizes to the men who had enjoyed the favours of the greatest number of dancers . |
| 3 | Thus to the question ‘ Why do you feel affection for your children ? ’ or ‘ Why are you inclined to assist animals ( or fellow citizens ) in pain ? ’ , it would sound lame and otiose to reply that it is because your children are kind and decent , or that you assist others in the hope that they will assist you , or that you do both to contribute to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of creatures . |
| 4 | The triangular shape gave the maximum protection of the greatest number of traders ; but whether it represents a fairly general type of early plan — say pre-Conquest — I do not know . |
| 5 | Also , on 21 October this year , people in the UK can support Apple Day , which is being organized by the campaigning group Common Ground to raise awareness of the great diversity of apples and other fruit grown in the UK . |
| 6 | Take advantage of the great variety of breads and rolls available — sliced , unsliced , crusty and soft . |
| 7 | The other evidence of the great depth of foundations is the sectional drawing of the incline in the booklet published in 1904 and a larger scale drawing . |
| 8 | If this percentage potential could be considered to hold true outside the USA , we would certainly have to ask of the great majority of congregations , ‘ What has happened to your ten per cent ? ’ |
| 9 | 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful . |
| 10 | The concept was taken up elsewhere in London and the beginnings of the great pattern of squares Bloomsbury Square in 1661 , St James 's Square in 1665 and Soho Square in 1690 ) with their associated terraced streets began to emerge . |
| 11 | Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a new pyramid at Giza , several feet to the southeast of the Great Pyramid of Cheops . |
| 12 | Martyn referred to Miller 's use of works by those better versed in scientific aspects of gardening , to whom due acknowledgment is given , and concluded with an appreciation of the author 's own industry : ‘ As to the practical part , he has given t is hardly anything but from his own knowledge and of the great number of plants mentioned in his book there are scarce any which he has not cultivated with his own hands . ’ |
| 13 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 14 | The couple walked slowly into the middle of the great circle of stones . |
| 15 | The university list is longer than the polytechnic/college one partly because of the greater range of degrees , and partly because of the greater number of more specialized degrees in the universities , although it should be remembered that specialized patterns of options may exist within broad degree programmes . |
| 16 | ( 1987 ) concluded that there was no significant difference in overall dementia prevalence between the sexes ; the increased rates among women were simply an artefact of the greater age of women studied . |
| 17 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 18 | In this case it is clearer , because of the greater number of possibilities , that the substitutes for table which normalise the sentence ( lit , buffet , journal , balcon , etc. ) have no common semantic properties which distinguish them from items ( such as chaise , bibliothèque , revue , assiette ) which do not remove the oddness : |
| 19 | ( The former is , of course , a reflection of the greater longevity of women , often left alone after bereavement . ) |