Example sentences of "there be the great " in BNC.

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1 ( Hesslow , 1981 ) ( iii ) There are the greatest difficulties in fitting the particular theories of probability into any probabilistic idea of causation .
2 There are the great islands of savannah and veld in East and South Africa , the little islands of mountain forests from Cameroon to Kilimanjaro , island-like lakes from Malawi to Turkana , islands of rain forest from Liberia to Uganda , real islands off the coast from Sao Tome to the Seychelles and man-made islands of conservation , from the Kruger to the Serengeti .
3 Then there is the great R K Narayan 's The Grandmother 's Tale , a collection of three novellas .
4 There is the great ninth lesson , the Christmas gospel , which recalls the opening words of Genesis : ’ In the beginning was the Word . ’
5 This is when there is the greatest risk of the glider being lifted off the ground by the first strong gust .
6 ‘ You ca n't be certain you 're right and there is the greatest temptation to put them off and not to take them .
7 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 .
8 In other words , these are the cases where there is the greatest public impact , so , while a small minority , these high-profile cases will tend to be used by the public as indicators of what is normally the outcome .
9 The new provisions hit hardest at the exploration stages of minerals projects , where there is the greatest risk .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 There was the great breadth of Debbie 's smile .
13 There was the great sea-king himself , with his tangled beard and his horns and his ruby eyes .
14 She backed me up when there was the great family war about my future .
15 Now one of the things that was on the you know there was the great Radio City Music Hall .
16 And there was the great Lord Byron , a powerful name , a man well known to espouse the cause of freedom .
17 Above all , there was the great Guynemer .
18 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 …
19 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 .
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