Example sentences of "great [noun] in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he has been a Christian for three years , we find him , in the pages of his brother 's diary , reading The Epistle to the Romans , the greatest exposition in Scripture of the themes of Original Sin , Grace and Justification by Faith . |
| 2 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 3 | The Mayas , Aztecs and Toltecs attributed the source of all ‘ light ’ ( spiritual and mental ) to the Great Serpent in keeping with the Christian Bible where knowledge , due to the Serpent , was obtained . |
| 4 | This strategy of inculcation and for more explicit interventions into the flow of subjective responses , experiences , and pleasures , had a great deal in common with the programme for a renewed Liberalism being developed at this time by L. T. Hobhouse : |
| 5 | ( 1 ) The experience of cinematic viewing — the dark , the succession of images ( ‘ perceptual memories ’ ) , the wonder , the wish fulfilment — has , as Metz ( 1982 , pp. 106–9 ) observed , a very great deal in common with the experience of dreaming and of unconscious processes . |
| 6 | Unfortunately for them , however , the computer technology is rapidly replacing antiquated machines , resulting in a great cut in demand for the old craft skills . |
| 7 | This principle is unlikely to be of great relevance in cases for the protection of business secrets . |
| 8 | Attention is now turned to deducing the signal responses of both active and passive nonlinear networks , a topic of great importance in view of the key roles that nonlinear devices play in electronics . |
| 9 | I included it in the painting , although I anticipated a lot of problems because of the great difference in values between the model and the light . |
| 10 | I included it in the painting , although I anticipated a lot of problems because of the great difference in values between the model and the light . |
| 11 | Perhaps in the spirit of the man threatened with bankruptcy who throws a lavish party to confuse his creditors , Napoleon III , confronted with this array of difficulties , organized a second spectacular Great Exhibition in Paris for the summer of 1867 . |
| 12 | Another great advance in precision about the goals of the Council came on Christmas Day , 1961 , with the solemn apostolic constitution , Humanae Salutis , the official convocation of the Council . |
| 13 | Thus , the great advance in literacy over the period and the expansion of the young population . |
| 14 | But we are lucky we have great people and great people in terms of the ordinary people . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Angus , East ( Mr. Welsh ) is merely parading the great terror in front of the farmers for his own purposes . |
| 16 | Above all , use was made of the great lake in front of the palace , the famous Étang des Carpes , where some of the fish were reputed to have been swimming since the days of Francis I. All sorts of pleasure boats were at the disposal of the guests , ranging from a Venetian gondola to a miniature frigate of the French navy — the latter the pride and joy of the Prince Imperial . |
| 17 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 18 | Despite the great differences in style between the above three ballets and despite their different libretti the three choreographers perrot ( with Saint-Georges ) , MacMillan and Ashton give valid reasons why the tragic deaths of Giselle , Romeo and Juliet , and Natalia 's lost love are the inevitable result of what has gone before . |
| 19 | The great differences in elevation within the continents are , in most cases , related to variations in crustal thickness with areas at high elevations generally being underlain by deep roots of buoyant crustal rock ( Box 2.1 ) . |
| 20 | The great growth in Christianity at the present time is in the Third World and those parts of Eastern Europe that are still under atheistic leadership . |
| 21 | He had made a great reputation in Berlin between the wars . |
| 22 | The division of the provinces led to a great increase in extent of the boundaries between them and the imposition of duties on goods passing through them . |
| 23 | The movement of peoples , associated with the great increase in population of the thirteenth century , led to wars which , for example , in Spain were associated with the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from Moorish control , but which were also waged to satisfy the urge to find new lands , as was to happen in northern and eastern Germany under the rule of the Teutonic Knights . |
| 24 | The railway ghost caused a great stir in Darlington at the time but many were very sceptical about its bona fides . |
| 25 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 26 | However , it could have hidden a greater reduction in flow in the deeper layers of the bowel wall , which may be the main site of vascular compromise . |
| 27 | The two men also have been at odds over Israel 's Middle East policy , with Mr Levy pushing for greater flexibility in talks with the Arabs and against straining relations with the United States . |
| 28 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 29 | Prospects of even greater longevity in future among the already long-lived have served to enhance concern still further . |
| 30 | The successful LBOs as a group also experienced greater increases in leverage with the buyout . |