Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What Souness has said will act only as a greater incentive for us in the replay at Selhurst Park . ’ |
| 2 | Another 250 words may not sound much in the great scheme of things , but after a heavy day at Pipeline and an end-of-contest thrash at the Turtle Bay Hilton , it felt like being asked to dash off another chapter of War and Peace . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you still keep in with the great man Dander ? ’ |
| 4 | erm They had great services were held in Christchurch Cathedral , and the King would have looked out from the Deans House , and this is the view of Tom Quad , a modern view , of course , of how you can look out onto the Great Quad of Christchurch , but of course it was n't like that . |
| 5 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 6 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 7 | Not until after the dinosaurs finally became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous did the mammals radiate explosively into a great diversity of forms such as we see today , to occupy an even wider range of ecological niches than those vacated by the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | I mean , do the other do these things happen in cycles and tha you know , is it possible that it 'll happen again on a greater scale ? |
| 9 | From either of these points there were several paths to be taken : a few orders could go directly to the Great Seal , but most had initially to go either to the Signet or to the Privy Seal , sometimes to both . |
| 10 | ‘ It shall all go up in a great fire , and all shall be ended ! |
| 11 | The melodic line must stand out with the greatest power and clarity in our arrangement , and obviously calls for a great sweep of strings . |
| 12 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 13 | ’ It 's not as if they would add up to a great sum . ’ |
| 14 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 15 | The opportunity for a negotiated peace had been lost — and with it the hope that anything good might come out of the Great War . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her . |
| 17 | The king was about to sail for Brittany to marry the duchess , and in his absence from the realm Richard would come again with a great host , Richard who was not dead , but alive and in safe hiding in Scotland , and had never truly relinquished his own . |
| 18 | His behaviour at the visit seems to suggest that he was a disturbing presence , since he did not turn up in the Great Hall as expected , but disappeared into a derelict and disused part of the house from whence he had to be fetched . |