Example sentences of "great [noun sg] of [noun pl] [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 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 . |
| 5 | The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares , to which this chapter refers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The pool has a large sunterrace and poolside bar , which serves a great range of drinks throughout the day . |
| 13 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 14 | To a tenth-century man or woman ( and Karl Leyser has shown the great importance of nunneries in the aristocratic social order of tenth-century Saxony ) , as to a modern monk or nun , the raison d'être of monasteries was their communal worship , their liturgy . |
| 15 | At one such meeting a heckler had got a great round of cheers from the assembled throng when he had told Clasper to get off his bloody soap-box and do a day 's work for a bloody change . |
| 16 | We 're progressing at great rate of knots at the moment . |
| 17 | Well now , your helicopter is approaching the ground at a great rate of knots with the engine idling and you have to land it — gently . |
| 18 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 19 | ‘ The Pacific Ocean , its shores , its islands , ’ he said , ‘ will become the great theatre of events in the world 's hereafter … henceforth European commerce , European thought and European connections , although becoming more intimate , will nevertheless sink in importance. , |
| 20 | The Grey Mountains divide the Empire from Bretonnia , the other great realm of Men in the Old World . |
| 21 | I arrived quite blind after a great number of cocktails at the George with Claud . |
| 22 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |
| 23 | As usual , there was a great number of births among the antelope herds with blackbuck , gemsbok and red lechwe especially productive . |
| 24 | There are a great number of adherents in the highlands . |
| 25 | There was a great number of rabbits in the place — many more than he was bringing . |
| 26 | There are a great number of anomalies in the accounts he gave . |
| 27 | This succeeded in bringing a great number of men from the surrounding parishes , as well as most of the inhabitants of East and West Looe . |
| 28 | The great shake-out of particles at the beginning of the solar system 's life , the way they can recombine to give altered secondary atmospheres , is a feature of great importance in explaining how life took hold . |
| 29 | Hoomey followed him , spurred by a great slashing of headlights on the wet tarmac and the swish of approaching tyres . |