Gradually the musical tinkle of their bells disappears into the great silence of the mountains.

BBC: Sardinia, land and sea

Prior to filming The Awakening, Hall read Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicholson and "a lot of war poetry".

BBC: Rebecca Hall turns ghost buster in The Awakening

Myth therefore looks into the heart of a great silence.

NPR: Karen Armstrong: Myths and the Modern World

During the celebration, participants will observe a minute of silence in tribute to the great number of journalists who have paid with their lives for our right to know.

UNESCO: World Press Freedom Day 2010

In thinking about how to break down what was described as a "conspiracy of silence", the Chief Constable of Great Manchester Police Sir Peter Fahy has told me that key is the question of legitimacy.

BBC: The police are the public and vice versa

It also looked at the great power the Catholic Church once had and explained how the Catholic faithful were too frightened to break the silence and report crimes perpetrated on young victims.

BBC: Bafta for BBC's The Shame of the Catholic Church

Her employers at Great Ormond Street Hospital deny trying to silence the doctor and say they investigated her concerns.

BBC: Whitehall role in NHS staff pay-offs revealed

There was a minute's silence before the game for former Wigan and Great Britain forward Terry Newton - not as respectfully observed as it might have been by a near capacity crowd.

BBC: St Helens 10-22 Wigan