Example sentences of "make a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the publicity stills make a great play of the stiff , straight back , the proudly jutting chin , and the tranced demeanour crossed with a hint of aloofness . |
| 2 | Trees heard but barely seen in the darkness make a great rushing , crackling sound above me . |
| 3 | Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling . |
| 4 | AWAYDAZE : Buckler 's Hard , pictured here , and Beaulieu 's motor museum make a great day out |
| 5 | ‘ Surely people have better things to do than make a great song and dance about missing a dinner party . ’ |
| 6 | I 've always thought that you get a bunch of songs together and if they 're good songs , you 're really lucky and if they all fit together and make a great album you 're really , really lucky . |
| 7 | We make a great partnership , Malcolm . ’ |
| 8 | The point is that they think differently from us ; and we and they make a great team . |
| 9 | Obviously the decrease in the amount of time spent with the first-born will have an effect but many parents are aware of this and make a great effort to give attention to the older child . |
| 10 | She thought yet again : I make a great fuss of nothing , and have not suffered at all . |
| 11 | Put together these fabrics make a great combination and create an extremely comfortable jacket . |
| 12 | They make a great clamour ; they take their time , just making noise . |
| 13 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 14 | Erm , I do n't think that er , in structural terms therefore a , a change of government would er , make a great deal , a difference , then you come to er , the general effect of a , a change of government er , I think at the moment we 're living in a situation of uncertainty and er , a clear majority erm , for any party would probably from a business point of view erm , remove the uncertain short term . |
| 15 | does anybody remember particularly what they were given , or make a great deal about it , of a meal of it , unless you 've given them something absolutely outstanding like a fur coat , I remember the fur coat I was given in |