Example sentences of "a great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the month-by-month figures ( Figure 2 ) do show a very sharp drop in temperatures very soon after the eruption — totally disagreeing with the forecast of a greatest influence on the hemispheric environment 18 months to two years after the dust veil is blown into the stratosphere . |
| 2 | And that 's a greatest skill in itself . |
| 3 | That does n't mean we have to go around in a great lather of gratitude all the time . |
| 4 | A particularly puzzling aspect of the ammonoids is a great resemblance between external shell features that can be produced at different times by otherwise unrelated ammonoids . |
| 5 | Commanding in the air , a great header of the ball and a strong tackler , Harry was the epitome of the ‘ stopper ’ centre-half and , in spite of playing for a struggling club , he was always loyal to the Palace . |
| 6 | It was a great header by little McCoist . ’ |
| 7 | He 's scratched a great tuft of fur out . " |
| 8 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 9 | TONY HEWITT-JONES was a versatile musician and a great character in Gloucestershire music . |
| 10 | They 're a great base for those who want to take full advantage of the lively nightlife of Playa de las Americas and also be able to relax in the calmness of the grounds . |
| 11 | This comfortable yet compact village is a great base for exploring this typically alpine domain . |
| 12 | Er I have a great sympathy for for that lady . |
| 13 | Why could n't he rise up and assert himself , shout at her , curse her , take off a great belt with a brazen buckle on it , like some muscular labouring man and beat hell out of her ? |
| 14 | By the turn of the century , which was only ten years since his first professional engagement , John Tiller had amassed a great fortune for himself whilst changing the lives of working-class girls by giving them good wages and a career . |
| 15 | There was a more brilliant flash of lightning followed almost at once by a great crash of thunder . |
| 16 | The king awoke out of his sleep to a frightful sound , like a great crash of thunder and the hissing flight of a thousand arrows . |
| 17 | He positioned his head , made a gesture with his hand , the axe swirled again , his body jerked , the head bounced on to the scaffold in a great spurt of scarlet . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember on one occasion , soon after I began operating , cutting into an artery by mistake , and a great spurt of blood like a fountain came up into my face . |
| 19 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 20 | Somewhere there was a great concourse of the high-minded who , in between the Sunday Times each week , spent their days pondering weighty ideas , discussing plays and foreign films . |
| 21 | In Toronto an immense frontage 752 ft. long had a central colonnaded entrance-way which led into a great concourse with a slightly curving coffered ceiling . |
| 22 | Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg — a great dirge for his own generation of Romantic poets . |
| 23 | That Ballo collapsed because of a great row between Björling and Solti . |
| 24 | It was very common that the duty wag at the time would make a little paper boat , and probably get some fat or grease from some convenient part of the ship , He would then set light to this and let it sail down the waterway whilst there was a great row of people sitting attending to their needs of nature . |
| 25 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 26 | In local authority work today committee work has become so important that a great measure of power is given to committees . |
| 27 | There was a great measure of bounce in Peter Marron 's pitch , and it lasted most of the match . |
| 28 | We managed to get in two dramatic runs under the Aiguille Vert and a great run down the Italian Bowl before lunch , finishing off the day by skiing the famous and steep Pas de Chevre . |
| 29 | Portsmouth are on a great run at the moment . |
| 30 | Nevin makes a great run to the byline but his flick-back is missed in a goalmouth scramble by Malkin and John Aldridge before the keeper falls on the ball . |