Example sentences of "great [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |