Example sentences of "there be the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the host countries , there is the greatest possibility in Syria , as in 1949 , that the Palestine refugee population could be resettled and persuaded to accept its lot as a permanent part of the host country . |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't be certain you 're right and there is the greatest temptation to put them off and not to take them . |
| 3 | This is when there is the greatest risk of the glider being lifted off the ground by the first strong gust . |
| 4 | The new provisions hit hardest at the exploration stages of minerals projects , where there is the greatest risk . |
| 5 | I agree with my hon. Friend that it is vital at this time , when there is the greatest risk of proliferation that the world has ever known and when the world 's greatest nuclear power is in a state of disintegration , that we ensure that while we take every positive and constructive step to try to deal with that very grave situation , we recognise the need to maintain our essential safeguard , our own nuclear deterrent . |
| 6 | In such cases there is the greatest need for effective search , analysis , evaluation and selection by those people involved in the making of purchase decisions , particularly where the item to be purchased is complex . |
| 7 | Above all , there was the great Guynemer . |
| 8 | There was the great sea-king himself , with his tangled beard and his horns and his ruby eyes . |
| 9 | Now one of the things that was on the you know there was the great Radio City Music Hall . |
| 10 | She backed me up when there was the great family war about my future . |
| 11 | There was the great breadth of Debbie 's smile . |
| 12 | And then there was the greatest ace of them all , Otto Kretschmer , whose record of having sunk a quarter of a million tons of Allied shipping was never beaten , Kretschmer who had perfected the night tactics , taught him by Dönitz , of letting a convoy pass over him , surfacing between the lines , loosing off torpedoes at ships either side of him , then diving again to get clear . |
| 13 | It was low water , consequently all the shipping in port was in the most imminent danger and … there was the greatest reason to fear that the flames would , from it , soon be communicated to the town … |