Example sentences of "was [verb] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the period when these first marine invertebrates were evolving , between 600 and 1000 million years ago , erosion of the continents was producing great expanses of mud and sand on the sea bed around the continental margins . |
| 2 | Mother was drawing great rambling breaths and muttering . |
| 3 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 4 | SHUKOKAI One of Mabuni 's senior students , Chojiro Tani , split from the organization to develop his own theories on karate for competition , which at the time was gaining great momentum . |
| 5 | In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped . |
| 6 | George Wood conducted him to the parlour with reverence : high class was meeting great riches with talk of splicing these two irresistible institutions and it was happening in George Wood 's back parlour . |
| 7 | It is right to observe that , until the decision of Hoffmann J. , the interpretation and application of the Torfaen case was causing great problems in numerous prosecutions for Sunday trading in magistrates ' courts and Crown Courts up and down the country . |
| 8 | I would also like to erm ask that erm that we do have everything we can to ensure that where this council has the possibility as erm landowner or property owner or whatever that we prevent or certainly discourage the use of such property for car boot sales and I had in mind sales that are taking place based on erm education property and in the case of Hatfield we were able to persuade the relevant authorities to er cause the car boot sale to cease but that particular car boot sale was causing great damage to the legitimate traders in both the Hatfield market and the Hatfield town centre . |
| 9 | On the eve of the Great War the entertainment world in Glasgow was going great guns . |
| 10 | At the time my survey was carried out , the social fabric of Zambia was undergoing great changes . |
| 11 | As the days passed difference were definitely beginning to show , the Applecross café was doing great business . |
| 12 | She was crying great wracking despairing sobs into her pillow . |
| 13 | Miss Lodsworth , exhorting her guides to greater endeavour in this modern world , was having great difficulty making herself heard over the din of Dancer 's group , who were warming up in the recording studio . |
| 14 | The umpire , who was having great difficulty controlling his dapple-grey pony , hurled the ball in . |
| 15 | In fact she did n't demand anything , apart from a dressing-room on the ground floor because she was having great difficulty with her back at the time , and being in pain , was using a wheelchair most of the time . |
| 16 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 17 | Guy Sterne was having great difficulty in controlling his amusement . |
| 18 | He did n't want to make the same mistakes again and was taking great care over every detail , researching the best possible way to lure the creature into his grasp . |
| 19 | In her wisdom she seemed to be aware of the delicacy of the situation and she was taking great care not to say anything to embarrass her companion . |
| 20 | Loretta frowned to herself , aware that Geoffrey was taking great pleasure in showing off his superior knowledge . |
| 21 | But Lydia was drinking great mouthfuls of beer and would n't tell her . |
| 22 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 23 | I do n't want to deny anything — it was f—ing great . |
| 24 | The development of the Naval version , the NA 39 , was ahead of the RAF 's and was showing great promise . |
| 25 | In each of his letters he had told Mum that he was making great progress . |
| 26 | Finally , the ‘ progressive ’ educational movement was making great strides in the 1920s and 1930s , with a sphere of influence that reached beyond experiments such as Dartington Hall , A. S. Neill 's Summerhill or Home Lane 's Commonwealth . |
| 27 | Last autumn he was making great progress , thriving on fast ground to score twice at Pontefract . |
| 28 | During his reign Edgar made one decision which was to have great significance later . |
| 29 | However , in this latter nexus , the relation between the real wage rate and the level of aggregate demand — a relation which was accorded great prominence in the General Theory — was to become obscured almost to the point of invisibility . |
| 30 | All the things were designed by Natasha Kornilof or another woman called Anne Proctor , and maybe she 'd make the introduction and David would meet them , but then she would follow it through and make sure the arrangements were done and the house was kept great when they lived in Oakley Street . |