Example sentences of "great [noun] [prep] [noun] " 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 | This category has the least security , but the greatest freedom of manoeuvre . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Those countries which are least isomorphic in their institutional arrangements have the greatest freedom of movement and choice either way . |
| 5 | The route to Dettifoss , the greatest waterfall in Europe ( fifty metres high and enormous in volume ) was still closed , and perhaps will not open this year due to the extraordinarily long and hard winter . |
| 6 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 7 | John Smeaton [ q.v. ] expressed the greatest admiration for Rudyerd 's work , which greatly benefited him when he built the third Eddystone light . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of the greatest dangers to Amnesty International and other in the human rights movement is the increasing tendency of governments to control human rights through ‘ verbal formula ’ and resourcing , and to base it on multilateral diplomacy rather than international human rights law . |
| 10 | The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience . |
| 11 | And I suggest libraries and museums , because I dare say they have the greatest experience in information co-ordination systems erm , within the , within the council , and I think , er , and of course they 're highly involved out in the community . |
| 12 | The Deer Hunter is one of the greatest debuts in cinema history , magnificently realised ritual scenes and performances ( De Niro , Streep , Walken ) in a tale which shows how the Vietnam war ripped a Pennsylvanian mining community asunder . |
| 13 | At this meeting the ministers asserted that their form of Church government was established by divine ordinance ; Taylor in reply told them that Presbyterians , along with Jesuits , ‘ were the greatest enemies to monarchy and most disobedient to Kings ’ , as shown by the actions of the Assembly of Scotland , and of Calvin , Knox and Buchanan . |
| 14 | As would be expected , the amount of damage increased as the number of vehicles using the tracks increased but the greatest reduction in vegetation cover was caused by initial vehicle runs . |
| 15 | Many of the greatest artists in Prague worked on these important interiors , including the Fleming Adrian Vredeman de Vries at the beginning of the 17C . |
| 16 | It includes , for example , language use , language study , literature , drama and media education ; it ranges from the teaching of a skill like handwriting , through the development of the imagination and of competence in reading , writing , speaking and listening , to the academic study of the greatest literature in English . |
| 17 | Another feature which has to be explained is the emplacement of massive granite intrusions of various ages which cover about 464 000 km 2 ( about 15 per cent ) of the surface of the range ; this probably represents a volume in excess of 2x106km 3 — the greatest mass of granite intrusions on Earth . |
| 18 | As a result , these species take the greatest variety of prey size of any of the predators investigated here . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is because the areas of women 's greatest visibility in sociology tend also to contain examples of the most rampant sexism . |
| 24 | Gorbachev , in his address , still felt able to claim that the establishment of a union of nations and nationalities enjoying equal rights was ‘ one of the greatest accomplishments of socialism ’ . |
| 25 | These programmes are aimed at managers who are operating at Board level , allowing those with the greatest responsibility for strategy and policy the opportunity to refresh their skills , to bring themselves fully up-to-date professionally and to focus on the implications of changes in the commercial and public sector environment for the benefit of their own organisation |
| 26 | The greatest level of polity — political organisation — is democratic self-government . |
| 27 | By far the greatest part of maintenance research developed by institutions of state for marginal areas has been soil conservation techniques ( outlined in Ch. 5 ) , which , as this book shows , have had to be imposed by colonial powers to be ‘ induced ’ at all . |
| 28 | The greatest change in IBM 's culture , I believe , came about as the PC grew out of the typewriter in the seventies — when IBM , to achieve necessary volumes , had to let non-IBM people begin selling its PCs . |
| 29 | Nowadays there is little real distinction between Proof and Proof before Answer and the greatest majority of cases heard are Proofs before Answer . |
| 30 | The UK could find itself in greatest difficulty with exemptions granted for pesticides in Southern Water 's area , namely for the herbicides Atrazine , Simazine and Propazine , where a treatment facility is not planned until 1997 or 1998 . |