Example sentences of "[art] great [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 2 | Certainly the latter view is in keeping with the great emphasis on suffering in Mark 's Gospel . |
| 3 | Confronted with a lack of fit , the leader must decide which factor(s) should be changed to bring all three into style ; hence , Handy argues , the great emphasis on ‘ leaderships ’ in management literature . |
| 4 | It can , of course , be argued that the great emphasis on esteem and moral careers which might be observed in a relatively undeveloped town in Southern Italy are not especially relevant to modern industrialised societies . |
| 5 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 6 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 7 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |
| 8 | I have seen Jim Birkett layback up the Great Flake on Central Buttress ( Scafell ) in mist and drizzle wearing clinker nailed boots ! |
| 9 | The Great Desmondo on MotD also muttered that we did n't have a win of 5 matches on the trot in ‘ 91-'92 . |
| 10 | The monument comprises a statue of the great man on a plinth of red granite , the plinth protected by four of Leonardo 's favourite pupils , Marco d'Oggiono , Cesare da Sesto , Andrea Solaino and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio . |
| 11 | The Great Wall on Clogwyn du'r Arddu , with the line of Vember marked . |
| 12 | By far the most interesting room in the complex is the Great Hall on the first floor , where degrees are conferred . |
| 13 | With the opening of the Great Hall on 15th April 1992 , you and your family will find there is so much more to see and discover at the National Railway Museum . |
| 14 | Concert to be held in the Great Hall on third of November . |
| 15 | The next event in the public launch calendar was the Alumni Foundation Concert in the Great Hall on 11 November , which Lord Armstrong hosted in his capacity as a Patron of the Campaign for Resource . |
| 16 | An Elisabeth Schumann obituary was contributed by Gerald Moore , who had accompanied the great soprano on numerous occasions . |
| 17 | The prevailing mood is disgust ; at the pathetic inarticulacy of the great ape on a rugby field , Frank Machin , and the blocked emotions of his landlady and lover , who has given up hoping for anything since her husband 's death . |
| 18 | Is the great Bill on ? |
| 19 | On another wall , the heavier ships which crossed the Great Green on less arduous journeys to Byblos and Kheftyu . |
| 20 | The great expenditure on education could be justified as a means to a thoroughly acceptable common end : economic growth . |
| 21 | Exhibiting nothing more than competence , he became keeper of the great wardrobe on 27 June 1369 , at the time when Edward III , and hence his court and government , were lapsing into passivity . |
| 22 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 23 | The other is a motor of highly original design ( for the conversant , one without commutator or armature ) , one of which now carries the great lens on Lundy North lighthouse that warns sailors of the savage coastline of the area . |
| 24 | The great review on Glasgow Green had only managed to squeeze 60 recruits from the reluctant ranks of the Clydesiders , but neither the shirts , the 6,000 coats and pairs of shoes , the printing press , printers to go with it , guns and ammunition , hostaged town councillors , or his alcoholic mistress , Clementina Walkinshaw , could keep out the chill on Culloden moor . |
| 25 | More measured in speech and more personally impressive was her friend Margaret Jourdain , the great authority on English furniture , a younger sister of Eleanor Jourdain , sometime contentious Principal of St Hugh 's College in Oxford , and famous for her ‘ adventure ’ at Versailles . |
| 26 | Will my hon. Friend accept the congratulations and thanks of parents , children , teachers and all concerned with education on the great improvement on the 1979 figures ? |
| 27 | Jo contemplates the great cross on its summit , ‘ the crowning confusion of the great , confused city ; — so golden , so high up , so far out of reach ’ , BH 19 ; its picture , ‘ with a pink dome ’ , on the lid of Peggotty 's work-box , DC 2 ; David and Peggotty visit it , DC 33 ; its ‘ deep bell ’ , DC 47 ; Master Humphrey inspects the cathedral clock , ‘ the great Heart of London ’ , MHC 6 ; John Browdie marvels at the building 's size , NN 39 ; statues of the apostles on its exterior , NN 45 ; Oliver in Fagin 's den as lonely as if he were in the ball on top of the cathedral , OT 18 . |
| 28 | We may be sure that the panache of the French royal chancellor inspired Thomas Becket to make the office equally great in the court of Henry 11 , just as it was the quarrel with Becket which no doubt determined Henry 11 to make the office ineffective after Becket had surrendered the Great Seal on his elevation to Canterbury . |
| 29 | When the charter to Maryland sought by George Calvert passed the Great Seal on 20 June 1632 Cecil Calvert was named the grantee , since his father had died earlier in the year . |
| 30 | In part this was a reflection of the great strain on small financial resources which building , maintaining and perhaps in time enlarging workhouses imposed , but it also reflected the greater difficulty in an effective and controlled administration of out-relief in the more anonymous and densely populated towns . |