Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | As an exercise , it was valuable for Glass even if it aroused a great deal of hostility . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was nothing valuable in it , though it seemed a great deal in the eyes of these people . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |