Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was one girl , however , who knew what she must do to please the Great Spirits .
2 If you 've found my column occasionally depressing over the past three or so years because of my doom-mongering , you should try reading The Great Reckoning by James Dale Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg .
3 That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was .
4 I should have to know a great deal more about you .
5 All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits .
6 Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ?
7 The loss of territorial control , with minority Russian populations in so many of the new countries , must have created a great deal of resentment , again not unlike Germany after World War l .
8 Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research .
9 Rodrigo must have learned a great deal from these intelligent , cultured people .
10 The move of Kenneth MacAlpin 's capital to Scone must have meant a great deal more physical comfort for kings and their retainers after the rocks and raw rain of Argyll , but the heads wearing the crown were offered little chance of lying easy .
11 He must have learnt a great deal from Thomas May , and from him also acquired an enthusiasm for pottery , but he was quick to grasp the crucial principle that the changes in the form of some vessels was due to a chronological development , an idea that had eluded May , who never rose much above the level of that of ‘ an indefatigable draughtsman ’ , as his Antiquaries ' obituary rather dismissively calls him .
12 He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short .
13 An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might .
14 He 'll have to join the great gang of us who move around in disguise on Saturdays till half an hour after kick-off time .
15 Physically , they might try climbing the Great Tower if they have Scale Sheer Surface skill and/or relevant equipment .
16 He might have met a great hero , or the cunningest of thieves , or some wise and great sage .
17 He might have known the Great Enchanter personally , and will almost certainly covet some of Drachenfels ' magical possessions .
18 Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys .
19 It could afford to hire the great arenas and fill them .
20 ‘ But without the special cover I 'd have had to pursue that claim on my own and it would have cost a great deal more .
21 Here you would have seen a great attraction and opportunities to do well in expanding industries .
22 ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it .
23 The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself .
24 He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous .
25 Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know .
26 This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire .
27 ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously .
28 In some circumstances this remained true even in straightforward administrative interactions where strings of questions about what was going to happen next sometimes led to complicated and unproductive guessing games , and where a simple clear statement would have saved a great deal of time .
29 Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 .
30 ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things .
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