Example sentences of "great [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music . |
| 8 | In 1981 , for example , with the exception of the West Midlands , Wales experienced the greatest loss of jobs of any region in Great Britain . |
| 9 | While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera . |
| 10 | The Midlands has the greatest concentration of motorways in the country — 350 miles which last year witnessed nearly a thousand serious or fatal accidents , |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Such survivors , after all , form by far the greatest proportion of patients with coronary disease . |
| 14 | The middle of the nineteenth century marks the beginning of the greatest migration of peoples in history . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact aggro leaders are probably afforded the greatest degree of deference within the group and by novices as well . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The greatest transformation of heathland into corn fields was to be found on the estates of the famous Coke of Holkham , in the north of Norfolk . |
| 21 | There was a cousin Dilwyn from whom he became inseparable ( they even shared a pair of roller skates ) and to whom he gave the greatest tribute of affection by constantly getting him into trouble . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the motor manufacturing industry is one of the greatest providers of employment in this country ? |
| 23 | One of the greatest sources of stress at work is relationships with other people — with superiors , with subordinates , with colleagues . |
| 24 | There is little doubt that some of the greatest sources of evil in the world can be traced to the gross abuse of that area of human activity which is termed ‘ religion ’ . |
| 25 | Surely the greatest guarantee of performance in central Government would be the guarantee of democratic access ? |
| 26 | But let us also remember that Baron Cuvier , perhaps the greatest protagonist of catastrophism in its earlier form , worked on the placid , untectonised sediments of Montmartre and the environs of Paris . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Due to the great variety of approaches for organizing innovative projects , it is difficult to classify them . |
| 29 | Furthermore , if this is really understood , this purpose can be achieved through a great variety of approaches with regard both to content and method . |
| 30 | In the Carboniferous a great variety of forms with highly zig-zag suture lines are a distinctive group of ammonoids usually known as goniatites . |