Example sentences of "great [noun] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the same publishing house comes a monograph on Antonio Begarelli , the greatest terracotta sculptor of the Italian Renaissance , by Giorgio Bonsanti . |
| 2 | Subject : Just after joining the greatest mailing list in the world … |
| 3 | Thanks to I have become the first DECcie to join the greatest mailing list in the world ; - ) . |
| 4 | Subject : Greatest mailing list in the world & c |
| 5 | Here then , is our own selection of some of the greatest NME covers of the past four decades . |
| 6 | Tonight we 'll devote all our time to the National as here in Central South we have eleven horses running at Aintree , in what 's regarded as one of the greatest horse races in the world . |
| 7 | Still to come , we look ahead to the greatest horse race in the world . |
| 8 | In his showmanlike way , Chapman wanted Highbury to become the greatest club ground in the world , a new kind of football mecca , with a big crowd capacity and as futuristic in design as the new West Stand , built at his suggestion to replace the old wooden stand erected in 1913 . |
| 9 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 10 | Though it centres on Harvey Keitel , who is trying to be a saint in the city , the film hatched the greatest celluloid partnership of the last 20 years with the introduction of Robert De Niro as the reckless Johnny Boy . |
| 11 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 12 | He wants to prove that he is a new man — but still one of the greatest football talents in the world . |
| 13 | Aside from six months of celibate desire , three bottles of wine with the greatest drag queen in the world , a won't-be-shrugged-off resentment that only now you sound as if you care ? |
| 14 | The greatest lineout jumper in the world is not going to walk into any old team and have it happen overnight . |
| 15 | So let's hear it for the greatest tennis player in the world ! |
| 16 | He opposed the privatisations , yet they are now the two greatest flag carriers in the Northern Ireland economy . |
| 17 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 18 | Highways officials say position of the crossing point provides the greatest safety benefit to the most vulnerable road users , and maintains free access and exit from the fire station and garage . |
| 19 | The airwaves and the stadia had been conquered , and claims they were the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world hardly seemed outlandish . |
| 20 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 21 | Furthermore , the Charter implied that the two greatest trading nations of the world should take domestic action to expand their demand , for the international expansion of trade which the Americans wanted to see after the war would necessarily be the sum of many domestic expansions . |
| 22 | Once the greatest squash nation in the world and a major influence upon the development of the game , they have yet to show signs of a revival . |
| 23 | WHEN it comes to marketing the greatest sailing regatta in the world — the America 's Cup — the visiting nations in San Diego have beaten the host city hands down . |
| 24 | A lifelong enthusiast of the stage , Hammerton first fell under the spell of music-hall as a boy in Glasgow ; from then on he attended performances of all the great variety artists of the day , and for a brief spell managed his own theatre company in Eastbourne . |
| 25 | A great armada sails for the Blighted Isle and Naggaroth . |
| 26 | The great Social-Contract theorists of the Enlightenment therefore explicitly excluded women from their systems . |
| 27 | Oldham was the scene of a great building boom in the second half of the nineteenth century , and many ordinary working folk bought shares in the great cotton industry that gave rise to it . |
| 28 | The origins of the keiretsu go back to the rise of Japan 's great banking families in the 19th century . |
| 29 | " The Triumph of Horus over his Enemies " is shown in relief scenes with inscriptions on the inner face of the great girdle wall of the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu . |
| 30 | The great metalworking centres of the time were in Mesopotamia , Iran and Egypt . |