Example sentences of "do great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will do great damage , but even after all the pain that it will inflict , it will fail . |
| 2 | Protectionism is not a serious counter movement to global capitalism because if it was successful it could do great damage to the system and , ultimately , destroy it . |
| 3 | Jimmy Wilde , our centre-half , made an excellent debut for us in preventing Simpson from scoring but manager Fred Maven and Secretary Edmund Goodman knew immediately that this was a man who could do great things for Palace . |
| 4 | But the occasional bath with bath oil and a relaxed soak , followed by body lotion lovingly applied , can do great things for the morale and help the appearance too . |
| 5 | For example , we may do great things while they are in care , achieving personal growth and forming relationships , but this is vitiated as adolescents face , at the age of 18 , the constraints of joblessness , social isolation and poor accommodation . |
| 6 | Loyalty can do great things , to quote the man himself . |
| 7 | Was it possible then that , in its impotence before a lie , the truth could do great harm ? |
| 8 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 9 | Above all I was pleased to have assured myself an income exceeding that on which some men had written great poetry , others had done great deeds , many had been free and happy . |
| 10 | Mystical writings were much less favoured than hagiographies about famous prelates or nuns who had done great deeds . |
| 11 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 12 | We have the potential to do great things . ’ |
| 13 | This wonderful device is supposed to do great things for Britain 's arts and architectural heritage , among other good causes ; it is to provide the jam on the plain bread and butter the Treasury says it will continue to provide . |
| 14 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
| 15 | He is with a priest from Canada and doing great work . |
| 16 | You are doing great work . ’ |
| 17 | A long plateau in which the never-ending surrealism of pain muted down into boredom and there was Jo laughing bravely , veiling her fear and doing great lines from Gone with the Wind in a deplorably bad imitation of a southern black accent . |
| 18 | But do not pretend that people become great by doing great things . |
| 19 | I dream , I hope and I pray that in our diocese we shall see God ‘ s Spirit , the Spirit that fell on Mary , coming to us and doing great things for God . |
| 20 | I intend doing great things tonight … great things . |
| 21 | erm The Spire is erm a symbol that has a lot of meanings attached to it , and it 's finally a book not about the building of a spire , but about a particular obsession in an individual human being , about the ideas that a man might have about ways of doing great things , which might actually be ideas that are rooted in some sort of self-deception . |
| 22 | THE Wellspring soup kitchen at the back of St Joseph 's Church in the centre of Stockport is doing great service . |
| 23 | And is that the only thing which would influence you to call off this strike , which is obviously doing great harm to the company and the country ? ’ the interviewer asked . |
| 24 | Unofficial copies were doing great business at the Brighton Conservative Party Conference … and at three pounds each , they 're ten pounds cheaper than the official Government version . |
| 25 | As the days passed difference were definitely beginning to show , the Applecross café was doing great business . |
| 26 | You did great damage to that trust in the police when you behaved in this way . ’ |
| 27 | And the Cid did great honour unto them . |
| 28 | Labelling men and women as " disloyal " did great harm to traditional civil liberties , and gravely damaged morale in the civil service , above all in the State Department . |
| 29 | The ones I really liked that we did last year were the erm we did Great Expectations . |
| 30 | They do great things because they are great , if the great things come along . |