Example sentences of "as a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was symptomatic rather than part of the train of thought that led to his decision : Britain , as a great power , could not leave her security in the hands of the Americans , who , however friendly , could veer so unpredictably from generous international collaboration to self-centred isolationism . |
| 2 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 3 | The hotel has a T.V. and video , and offers snacks , as well as a great English breakfast . |
| 4 | In Paris Haussmann had no such tabula rasa , so that demolition meant displacement of established communities , a circumstance which gave rise to bitter complaints , many justified , by those caught in the upheaval , as well as a great deal of sordid speculation by those who could buy run-down property cheaply and sell dear for compensation . |
| 5 | The next morning brought more early arrivals ; namely , the two ladies from Germany — who had travelled together despite what one would have imagined to have been the great contrast in their backgrounds — bringing with them a large team of ladies-in-waiting and footmen , as well as a great many trunks . |
| 6 | In retrospect , the research might have been easier in a situation with fewer functional elements , as a great deal of time and effort was directed at trying to tabulate the information links between the system components and construct a comprehensive information model . |
| 7 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 8 | She is a lovely lady as well as a great physio , and we chatted away as she worked on my legs . |
| 9 | ‘ Everyone is a very nice person all the time , if we only adopt the most loving and positive of attitudes towards all our fellow human beings , ’ as a great man once said . |
| 10 | All engineers know about stress concentrations but a good many do n't really in their hearts believe in them since it is clearly contrary to common sense that a tiny hole should weaken a material just as much as a great big one . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to make it absolutely clear , ’ said Angalo slowly , as a great feathery head nabbled in the water a few inches away , ‘ that if you 're suggesting that we ride on a geese — ‘ |
| 12 | ‘ He is a great shot-stopper as well as a great athlete . |
| 13 | However , the Sari , as a great increase ceremony , is one of the most dangerous rituals the Piaroa perform , and , as such , only a great ruwang and his wife may present it . |
| 14 | He had been prosperous after the seige of Arcot ; after Plassey the new Nawab gave him £234,000 in cash and the right to land rents of £27,000 a year , which made him as rich as a great territorial magnate like the Duke of Newcastle . |
| 15 | It used to be possible to obtain second-hand telescopes at low cost , but by now a really good , cheap second-hand telescope is about as common as a great auk . |
| 16 | We would also point out that prior to the seventeenth-century scientific revolution the universe was seen , by European men , as a great chain of being , connected rather than atomistic , necessarily related to humanity , rather than being a ‘ neutral domain of facts , of contingently correlated elements , the tracing of whose correlations will enable greater and greater manipulation and control of the world ’ ( Taylor , 1985 , p. 134 ) . |
| 17 | Whatever his sins it is clear that a man subject to such fits of remorse would have been well aware that a crusade was a religious act as well as a great military adventure . |
| 18 | Without such rethinking , he argues , " we shall lose our vision as a people , and , as a great people , surely perish , destroying more than ourselves in the process " . |
| 19 | Apart from a bit of liquid latex and normal ageing make-up , the rest was mostly acting Brando has been the cinema 's greatest deep-down Method mimic , as well as a great actor . |
| 20 | Besard 's Thesaurus , on the other hand , contains more than forty fantasias and nearly as many praeludia , as well as a great quantity of dances . |
| 21 | This is very inconvenient for Mrs Puri , as a great number of her close relations have emigrated . |
| 22 | When The Scotsman 's music critic reviewed this production in Paris last month she was overwhelmed by its beauty but others have taken the view that two pianos no matter how superbly played can never be as effective as a great orchestra . |
| 23 | When The Scotsman 's music critic reviewed this production in Paris she was overwhelmed by its beauty , but others have taken the view that two pianos , no matter how superbly played , can never be as effective as a great orchestra . |
| 24 | erm Yet the distinction is one on which Proust repeatedly insists , at least for critical purposes , and elsewhere I think he puts the same idea quite succinctly , when he says and I quote , ‘ The man who inhabits the same body as a great genius has very little contact with him . ’ |