Example sentences of "great [noun] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither party will benefit from getting hurt and in the great majority of cases the disputes are settled without serious damage on either side . |
| 2 | Object : A great deal of publicity the book received in China . |
| 3 | Fronting the object , on the other hand , foregrounds it and gives it local prominence ( cf. A great deal of publicity was received in China and A great deal of publicity the book received in China ) . |
| 4 | Certainly , attempts to read the poem at a wholly symbolic level with the violence being explained away as allegorical representations of abstract moral conflicts ignore the great deal of interest the poem shows in history , particularly Spenser 's contemporary history . |
| 5 | With a great deal of diplomacy the contract was cancelled . |
| 6 | Immediately with a great flutter of wings the pigeons rose into the air and circled above the terrace . |
| 7 | Rising over the misty wilderness of the Blighted Isle , largest of the surviving islands , is the great shrine of Khaine the Elf war-god . |
| 8 | In the great days of Suleiman the Magnificent the sultan 's armies reached the gates of Vienna in 1529 , having already subdued Hungary at the battle of Mohács three years earlier . |
| 9 | This grew out of a Loan Exhibition ( accompanied by lectures ) of scientific apparatus for the 1862 Exhibition at South Kensington , which turned out to be a pale shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851- the death of Prince Albert adding to the gloom . |
| 10 | Most of the CEB men , Hacking included , saw as one of the great prizes of nationalisation the possibility of escaping from the voluntarism which had characterised their former relations with the undertakings . |
| 11 | In the resulting Great Fire of Rome the Doctor and Vicki , like Ian and Barbara , slip away , each duo ignorant of the other 's presence in the capital . |
| 12 | To obtain a greater degree of permanence the time symbols of oral speech had to be converted into the space symbols of written speech . |
| 13 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |