Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 2 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 3 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 4 | A tennis ball is more curved , so it has a greater curvature . ’ |
| 5 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |
| 6 | Both keep going , even if it means a great effort and both keep their minds active by reading , talking and keeping up with what 's happening in the world . |
| 7 | As an exercise , it was valuable for Glass even if it aroused a great deal of hostility . |
| 8 | ‘ Overkill ’ causes unnecessary suffering to the offender , and all suffering is bad unless it prevents a greater amount of suffering or brings about a greater quantity of pleasure . |
| 9 | Families favour the Arts Centre over bed and breakfast accommodation because it offers a greater privacy . |
| 10 | In such an environment , competitive advantage lies with the organisation that has the richest variety and frequency of interaction with the customer , not because this builds brands awareness , but because it offers the greatest opportunities to identify and to react the events that signal credit demand . |
| 11 | He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto . |
| 12 | Lighting , however , you ca n't do without for obvious reasons and also because it adds a great deal of extra interest to a room ( see Lighting is important , page 35 ) |
| 13 | This is the best measure of fitness , since it expresses the greatest rate at which an individual can exert himself . |
| 14 | It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested . |
| 15 | And er the amount of money that 's in the appeal fund , whereas it shows a great feeling of warmth from the general public , I think I do n't I mean there 's people dying all over the world , even at home here in Orkney , there 's people that dying , they do n't receive any great compensation for that . |
| 16 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 17 | The conceptual content required in this case to describe the institution , though it involves a great deal of cultural elaboration , does not display the same kind of break between the pre-cultural and the cultural as is found in the incest case ; and the biological pattern of explanation could recognizably run through such ideas as human beings finding certain institutions ‘ natural ’ , which does not require any appeal to a rational collective agency to understand the basic biological idea , as is damagingly the case with the incest example . |
| 18 | There was nothing valuable in it , though it seemed a great deal in the eyes of these people . ’ |
| 19 | SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’ |
| 20 | The American Civil War , the first ‘ modern ’ war with ultimately more than a million men under arms , divided families and friends as much as it split a great nation in two . |
| 21 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 22 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 23 | I want to suggest that it is the centrality given to this concept of sexuality that constitutes a problem for historians , for it ignores the great variety of cultural patterns that history reveals , and the very different meanings given to what we blithely label as ‘ sexual activity ’ . |