Example sentences of "great [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By far the greatest protection for consumers in Britain is provided by parliament , which in several important pieces of legislation has set up a framework in which the respective rights and duties of consumers and suppliers can be identified and clarified . |
| 2 | To avoid this problem and to allow the greatest freedom of competition between financial institutions , the alternative is to use monetary base control with no statutory cash ratio . |
| 3 | Brunel ( q.v. ) , though famous for his great works of stone and iron , was also one of the greatest exponents of engineering with timber , and he built many road and rail bridges , particularly in the West Country , using timber beams which could be replaced , when need be , without closing the roads or tracks for long periods . |
| 4 | The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life . |
| 5 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 6 | The Montreal Convention , which provides that contracting states shall afford one another the greatest measure of assistance in connection with criminal proceedings brought in respect of the offences charged . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the house of Foix-Béarn emerged as the neighbouring territorial power with the greatest measure of control over Bigorre and the important Pyrenean passes which lay within its boundaries . |
| 8 | Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music . |
| 9 | We appear to be selfish , cynical creatures ; our greatest ambition in relation to rules of behaviour is to get other people to obey them so that our own cheating is even more productive . |
| 10 | In 1981 , for example , with the exception of the West Midlands , Wales experienced the greatest loss of jobs of any region in Great Britain . |
| 11 | This , perhaps the greatest monument in stone of English canal engineering , is over a thousand feet long and 121 feet above the river . |
| 12 | While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera . |
| 13 | The Midlands has the greatest concentration of motorways in the country — 350 miles which last year witnessed nearly a thousand serious or fatal accidents , |
| 14 | The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise . |
| 15 | Although admittedly criticizing some of his own work Hewitt ( 1983 ) believes that the perspective of this dominant view could be the single greatest impediment to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of natural disasters research , because it fails to recognize how the roots and occurrence of contemporary disasters depend upon the way ‘ normal everyday life turns out to have become abnormal ’ . |
| 16 | SILVERSTONE , home to RAF bombers during World War Two , is facing its greatest battle for survival as a Formula One Grand Prix circuit . |
| 17 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 18 | Such survivors , after all , form by far the greatest proportion of patients with coronary disease . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The middle of the nineteenth century marks the beginning of the greatest migration of peoples in history . |
| 21 | It is essential that alternative accommodation should be very varied in type and support to give the greatest degree of independence to patients commensurate with their disabilities and to enable adjustments to be made in small steps . |
| 22 | In fact aggro leaders are probably afforded the greatest degree of deference within the group and by novices as well . |
| 23 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 24 | The greatest reform in access to health care was the setting up of the National Health Service in 1948 . |
| 25 | Watson was elected a Fellow and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1967 , and by the time he retired in 1979 he had guided it through its greatest period of change since its creation in 1818 , with dramatic increases in membership . |
| 26 | Tip O'Neill is instructive on the differences between the two administrations in these matters : Being ‘ helped out ’ in one 's district was a matter of the greatest importance to members of the House of Representatives , the forum where Reagan 's legislative strategists would face their severest test . |
| 27 | Being published , originally , in 1655–73 it is of the greatest importance in connection with ecclesiastical buildings up to that time . |
| 28 | In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families . |
| 29 | Yet of all people the British seem to take the greatest pride in suppression of emotion . |
| 30 | In newsrooms libel is the greatest inhibition upon freedom of speech , although it also serves as a spur to accuracy and professionalism . |