Example sentences of "with a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked across at the film star , not with a great deal of pity . |
| 2 | Brian Travers , founder member of UB40 , launched his film production company , Brian Travers Associates , with a great start , shooting UB40 live at Finsbury Park . |
| 3 | With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece . |
| 4 | Some urban gardeners , as short of space inside as they are out , want their gardens to be extensions of their homes , with a great deal of hard paving , good furniture and lighting . |
| 5 | Boomer was a handsome man with a great deal of charm and became the favourite professional of the rich who visited Paris , playing with such luminaries as Sir Philip Sassoon , who rewarded Boomer by having suits made up for him from Savile Row . |
| 6 | Being the observer in the Land Rover on patrol is unpopular because observers do the paperwork on incidents ; those who can not drive are thus left with a great deal of boring work . |
| 7 | Mrs Hatton and her mother were both in black , smart unseasonable black relieved with a great deal of showy costume jewellery . |
| 8 | She excused herself hurriedly and left , returning with a great bustle to announce her coming , when she had given him time to compose himself . |
| 9 | For the Wandsworth Registry Office ceremony , Alison sported a fringed pair of extremely brief black shorts teamed with a great Jasper Conran jacket . |
| 10 | With a great part of the matters with which they dealt we have not much concern . |
| 11 | For such a tall man Joel Garner had a beautiful follow-through with a great deal of athletic grace . |
| 12 | Mary 's heart was enlarged with a great vision of God who comes to overthrow the oppressor and rescue the poor . |
| 13 | I agree with a great deal of his concerns . |
| 14 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 15 | The people 's ‘ shouting with a great shout ’ or ‘ raising a great shout ’ ( Josh. |
| 16 | She bound her arms from the shoulder to the elbow with thick cords … she rubbed herself with nettles … [ in her full length hair shirt ] she appeared more glorious in the eyes of God from her having armed it underneath with a great quantity of points of needles to increase her suffering by this ingenious cruelty … |
| 17 | You will be faced here with a great temptation to set goals for fast weight loss that will prove difficult or impossible for you to achieve . |
| 18 | A house with a great man in it and an old woman and a cat , that runs itself ? ’ |
| 19 | But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now . |
| 20 | But there is a sense in which a rehearsal is the process of coming to terms with a great resistance . |
| 21 | It is the same with a great surgeon . |
| 22 | He stood , and with a great sweep of his hand , bowed , said ‘ servus ’ , and drew out a chair for his lady guest . |
| 23 | I found it hard to picture what kind of landscape those statistics might have shaped , until I opened the Ordnance Survey map to find half of it coloured green with a great blue stain in the centre . |
| 24 | The British , who play the Americans in three more Tests as part of their extensive preparations for Barcelona , dominated for much of the match , but their poor shooting form , combined with a great display by the home goalkeeper , denied them . |
| 25 | It came again with a great wakening light , |
| 26 | Today 's reading compares God with a great sun — a source of tremendous strength and energy which never goes away . |
| 27 | ‘ Progress ? ’ replied Ingram with a great effort . |
| 28 | I have shaken hands with a great many friends , but there are some things I want to know which no-one seems able to explain . |
| 29 | Moreover , it is combined with a great deal of personal imagery in many Indian religious traditions . |
| 30 | Through his binoculars he made out Belpan 's one patrol boat with a great vee of spray at its bows . |