Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early nineteenth century three ‘ large carrying establishments ’ had made their headquarters here , of which Sutton & Co. carried on a great trade with Hull and Gainsborough , Liverpool and Manchester , the Cheshire salt works and the Potteries , and with Birmingham , Dudley and the Black Country . |
| 2 | Although they have worked as a duo since 1987 and have built up a great following throughout these islands and abroad , their respective musical experiences go back much further . |
| 3 | He , too , had risen from humble origins , from a tenement on New York 's east side , and had built up a great reputation as a reformer . |
| 4 | We have built up a great deal of knowledge about the historical side of the palaces but that has not been presented to the public . ’ |
| 5 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 6 | She sees red , however , when the slogans and other aspects of her designs are copied and bowdlerised ; she has sounded off a great deal about suing the culprits , a litigious reflex often apparent in her career . |
| 7 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers . |
| 8 | Although HIV has brought about a greater degree of openness in sexual matters , more research is still needed on sexual behaviour to help target prevention messages and identify who is at risk . |
| 9 | She was accepted for the Winter Gardens show , immediately struck up a great friendship with Edith Whalley and they became inseparable . |
| 10 | ‘ One of the daughters , Fiona , who was always known as ‘ the pretty one ’ , had struck up a great friendship with Mama , who had been invited back to Scotland . |
| 11 | During the subsequent exploration of New Zealand and Australia , Green was , in Cook 's words , ‘ indefatigable in making and calculating these observations [ for latitude and longitude ] which otherwise must have taken up a great deal of my time … |
| 12 | If this exhibition means to report on the whole of twentieth-century American modernism then it has left out a great deal in the period between the two world wars ; work that is historically important and good even though sometimes ‘ provincial ’ with respect to Europe . |
| 13 | But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold . |
| 14 | Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so . |