Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 2 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 3 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 4 | Birdie Mac in the sweet shop told people that it took a great amount of faith these days to realise that God was fair-minded . |
| 5 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 6 | The major problem with the method is that it takes a great deal of time , attention and patience . |
| 7 | Not feeding for a couple of days before hand clears their systems and helps to make sure your fish eat the remedy , so that it has a greater effect and avoids the problem of rotting herbs polluting the water . |
| 8 | She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money . |
| 9 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 10 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 11 | As was noted earlier , proponents of specialization claim , among other things , that it permits a greater development of knowledge and/or skills , and that it facilitates liaison with other agencies through increased awareness of how other disciplines work . |
| 12 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 13 | That up to the time in Edinburgh , the Monotype machines have been largely , if not chiefly , operated by women , and that women have proved themselves entirely competent to work these machines , so that it seems a great hardship that women should be debarred from working at them in future . |
| 14 | They liked the elegance of Dr Gentle 's idea , and the fact that it required no great resources . |
| 15 | ‘ The tour of the WISE bus into a number of our schools was very successful and there can be no doubt that it created a great interest amongst staff , girls and parents ’ |
| 16 | A tennis ball is more curved , so it has a greater curvature . ’ |
| 17 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |
| 18 | It requires an analytical and reasonably numerate mind to develop cost-effective plans ; it requires a rapport with the creative group to achieve the best match of material and medium ; it requires aggressive negotiating skills in order to achieve the best possible positions and discounts , so as to make the maximum use of the client 's money ; and it requires a great attention to detail . |
| 19 | This disciplinary technique is designed to ensure that minor misdemeanours such as whining , pestering and tantrums have no reinforcing consequences , and it requires a great deal of control and consistency on your part . |
| 20 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 21 | Shortly after my return , the Governor was to make a tour of Central Burma and it seemed a great opportunity for me to gauge conditions outside Rangoon , so I was invited to accompany him . |
| 22 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 23 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 24 | Now there 's less room for thought and for feeling , and it seems a great tiredness is good for keeping people steady . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've already had a brief look at the Arms Park and it seems a great ground . ’ |
| 26 | This is not one of the chronicler 's purple passages , but seems to be a sober report of the negotiations , and it matters a great deal . |
| 27 | What was it Dr Johnson said — ‘ Love is only one of many passions and it has no great influence on the sum of life ’ . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 29 | It 's an event which has a very special atmosphere and it makes a great day out for all the family . |
| 30 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |