Example sentences of "[verb] with great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless it was the flowers left over from some recent wedding — a country wedding — meadow and hedgerow flowers with huge sprays of beech leaves , creamy cow parsley mixed with great white daisies and lilac . |
| 2 | Such a toy should take precedence ( as an intruder ) over residents such as the Plec and the filters and will be attacked with great gusto . |
| 3 | As that percentage has dwindled , the Met has scrambled with great success after private money but even so has not been able to raise enough to take up the slack . |
| 4 | Gabriel followed the even pattern of pawmarks as far as possible : they carried his eye up to a distant knoll crowned with trees and wounded with great white scars of bare chalk . |
| 5 | for instance , much emphasis is placed upon fighting between tribes , which supposedly occurred with great frequency until such conflicts were stopped by the Russians . |
| 6 | But Brook had given the volunteer a passage from Peter Weiss ' play on Auschwitz , which recounted with great clarity a description of the dead . |
| 7 | In fact Pakistan 's triumph was like an Eid , the religious festival which Muslims celebrate with great fervour at the conclusion of Ramadan . |
| 8 | ‘ Many people are dying with great indignity and with great suffering , ’ said John Oliver , general secretary of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society . |
| 9 | Parchment and vellum should be approached with great caution , since they are not likely to respond to ordinary cleaning methods ; but the firm Archival Aids , of High Wycombe , Bucks , which specialises in the safe treatment of early records , has marketed a non-abrasive powdered rubber which may be applied with safety and will remove at least surface dust and dirt . |
| 10 | Pourquery displayed a variety of touch shots and moved with great athleticism about the court , to defeat his net rushing opponent 6–4 6–7 6–2 and earn himself an intriguing place in the final against Hunter . |
| 11 | Hauser had struck him as a man who moved with great caution . |
| 12 | The crowd erupted with great excitement and anticipation . |
| 13 | It was my unhappy duty to break the news of her son 's death , which she bore with great fortitude . |
| 14 | Fortunately , we seldom needed to call upon the doctor , but our daughter , as an infant , was obliged to submit to various injections , and usually responded with great violence to these administrations . |
| 15 | Willa Cather 's My Antonia , which along with her other novels I was absorbing with great delight at this period , provided another couple with whom to identify , Antonia and Jim Burden , and I kept switching sides with these characters also . |
| 16 | Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue : |
| 17 | The previous year fire had broken out on its mate which sank with great loss of life . |
| 18 | I behaved with great dignity and showed none of the resentment I may have felt . |
| 19 | The members of the household , once they realised that their watches and jewellery were safe , ‘ asked them a thousand questions ’ about America , and , as the children 's governess later wrote ‘ they behaved with great civility ’ . |
| 20 | Elizabeth behaved with great dignity . |
| 21 | ‘ The particular circumstances when a legal duty is to be imposed , ’ it says , ‘ will need to be considered with great care . ’ |
| 22 | But the four presidents also warned that ‘ the particular circumstances when a legal duty is to be imposed will need to be considered with great care … |
| 23 | I can certainly give my hon. Friend an assurance that , were the investigations by the Serious Fraud Office to produce evidence of fraud that would have to be considered by those involved in criminal prosecutions of if there were claims that the Occupational Pensions Board had been negligent or in any other way culpable of failure to carry out its duties as imposed by the law , those matters would be considered with great care . |
| 24 | Educational psychologists of the 1960s and 1970s pursued with great vigour the idea that working class and Black children used an illogical language that caused them to lag behind in school . |
| 25 | This role he discharged with great success and it was probably the most notable feature of his time as Treasury Solicitor . |
| 26 | Until about 1970 , the population was highly dispersed with great distances separating both houses and territories . |
| 27 | The Poles must oppose secession in the name of the unity of the working class of all the Russias , but they should not ask the Russians to compromise with Great Russian chauvinism by refusing the Poles the right to secede . |
| 28 | Sometimes he glows with great power , which rushes out and solves and clears everything : a power lent by the tutelary maker who presides over all his sleep . |
| 29 | These policies were pursued with great determination and consistency , and Ahidjo was remarkably successful in holding Cameroun , with its 300 recognized languages , together . |
| 30 | It is this project which has been pursued with great tenacity by Nicos Poulantzas , who has applied Althusser 's general theory to a specific case . |