Example sentences of "great [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method used for a particular analysis depends on a great variety of factors including the analyst 's expertise , the time available , the situations accessible for study , the related information already available , the purpose of the analysis and so on . |
| 2 | The great variety of creatures in the Burgess Shales is a reminder of how incomplete our knowledge is of all fossil faunas . |
| 3 | Third , such analysis links national political-economic processes relevant to erosion and conservation to international affairs , mediated in a great variety of ways by the state systems of different countries . |
| 4 | The great variety of form of the hard parts surely shows that trilobites were adapted to a wide range of habitats and life styles . |
| 5 | Sailing away from the wind is known as running and you 've got great freedom of choice in the exact course you pick , you can even sail dead downwind . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Honiton talked as if there were a great wave of support for the view that he and others advocate on this matter . |
| 7 | The great wave of privatisations of the 1980s removed a large number of bodies , mainly nationalised industries , from the schedule of public record bodies to which the Act applied . |
| 8 | The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares , to which this chapter refers . |
| 9 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 10 | Moreover , the great majority of members of the fishing communities of the United Kingdom were either not affected by the Act at all or severely disadvantaged by it . |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 12 | The great majority of nationals of the member state in question are resident and domiciled in that state and therefore meet that requirement automatically , whereas nationals of other member states would , in most cases , have to move their residence and domicile to that state in order to comply with the requirements of its legislation . |
| 13 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 14 | When I was a boy in Salzburg two or three hundred people might hear a concert , listening to something that the great majority of people outside the concert-hall had no knowledge or understanding of . |
| 15 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |
| 16 | Should it become necessary , to meet EEC requirements on medicines legislation , to run tests with homoeopathic remedies using double-blind models , the great advantage of research with the remedies is their gentle action and lack of the harmful side-effects which unfortunately result from many orthodox drugs . |
| 17 | Alas , the great mass of weight over the tail also meant that , at high speed on damp surfaces , the 911 had a habit of disappearing off roads , backside first . |
| 18 | They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route . |
| 19 | It is also clear that there was a great deal of support for the old church throughout the country , and particularly from the gentry elites of provincial England . |
| 20 | Their ‘ soft ’ attitude to the Poles lost the Nazis a great deal of support In the 1935 Volkstag elections . |
| 21 | To judge from that response , I think that my hon. Friend has a great deal of support in the House . |
| 22 | There is a great deal of support in the EC for such a discriminatory tax , eventually rising to as much as $10 a barrel . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , Gill and Jackson 's book appeared at a t–me when there was a great deal of activity in the black community directed towards finding black families for black children , thereby making it progressively unnecessary for transracial placements to continue . |
| 24 | This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married . |
| 25 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 26 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 27 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 28 | ‘ The new pattern introductions for Autumn 1993 created a great deal of excitement at the show , especially Hopscotch , Aquabatic , and Hyde Park in the new fine china collection , ’ said Tom . |
| 29 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 30 | There is a great deal of variety in the work of the ES and this booklet should help you see the bigger picture — of how you can help to provide a vital service to the public . |