Example sentences of "[vb past] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those whom the author singled out for praise were Edward III , who recalled his victory against the French at Sluys in June 1340 by introducing a fighting ship onto the noble of England , and Henry V , who built great ships and dealt firmly with those who were causing trouble to English shipping . |
| 2 | Intrigued by the Cypriots ' intense pride in their local cuisine , Gilli encountered great enthusiasm for food wherever she went . |
| 3 | This was a satisfying performance , in which the soloist demonstrated a fine technique ; one which healed great clarity in the taxing scale work and sensitive and tender response in the slow movement . |
| 4 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
| 5 | Our first holiday to the islands helped solve that problem , and provided great help in future years . |
| 6 | He provided great ammunition for Banger and Maddison . ’ |
| 7 | As an insistent talker in a railway carriage who was carrying a viper in a cardboard box or as a thin man bewailing his bad luck at being unable to apply for the job of fat man at the fair , he provided great amusement largely by the assumption of odd accents and the pulling of extraordinary faces . ’ |
| 8 | The government was still the king 's government : the monarch retained great influence over the administration and to the end of the century expected to have a say , even a dominant say , in the making of policy . |
| 9 | Floy and Snodgrass ate the food without noticing it very much , but Balor snatched great handfuls from the pack and crammed them into his mouth , spraying crumbs everywhere , letting grease dribble down his chin . |
| 10 | ‘ He found great difficulty in saying anything , although he evidently tried very hard … |
| 11 | At two o'clock in the morning the doctor gave him a sedative and he went into a deep sleep , but when he awoke he did not speak to anyone , and the police found great difficulty in questioning him too . |
| 12 | Not only did their numbers seem insignificant in the vast Russian countryside , not only were they rapidly overtaken by police arrests , but they found great difficulty in putting their ideas across to the peasantry . |
| 13 | Watt found great difficulty in working with the Cornish mine captains and obtaining from them full payment for the engines they had built or modified . |
| 14 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 15 | It was estimated that as many as a third of all members were either put out of work or seriously under employed , and students found great difficulty in obtaining placements in architects ' offices . |
| 16 | This did n't go down very well with the rest of the senate , but found great favour with Caesar , who allowed the sixty-first senator to keep umbrage . |
| 17 | She also found great pleasure in reading , but although my father had brought to Fontanellato a large number of Slovene books , she had soon to resort to reading in Italian , which she inevitably found more difficult . |
| 18 | And er we bore great resentment about this , that was the only thing , that I can honestly say , we bore any resentment about . |
| 19 | In his maiden speech , my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) demonstrated great knowledge and ability . |
| 20 | Curiously , of John 's first hundred Palace appearances , almost half were as a substitute and , although he demonstrated great potential , he never really established himself as a regular member of our side until the autumn of 1990 . |
| 21 | However , he considered that only locomotives with a single pair of driving wheels were really suitable for express-train service and the first of these were built in 1868 , followed two years later by the larger 4–2–2 type with outside cylinders and driving wheels eight feet in diameter , whose simple and elegant outline created great interest . |
| 22 | The signing of the Free Trade Treaty of 1860 with Britain was as much an act of faith as of policy , for it created great opposition among French industrialists , but the faith was justified in that the economy , deprived of its protective barriers , continued to grow and expand . |
| 23 | This negative response created great distress to Mrs X as she has her heart set on becoming an embalmer . |
| 24 | They were three thousand feet from the peak , just below a cornice of ice which encircled Great Ararat . |
| 25 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 26 | The Waterdance , which charts the struggles of a novelist trying to come to terms with sudden paralysis , also drew great praise . |
| 27 | In half the cases the dementia or confusion was " just about manageable " , but the others exhibited behavioural difficulties which posed great problems for the other tenants . |
| 28 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 29 | As the bedroom door closed , Googol adopted a peeved expression and pretended great interest in a fingernail . |
| 30 | The 1976 season started with Mario and Peterson in the 77 , but the 78 , which promised great things , was already in the works . |