Example sentences of "not [adv] [art] great [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By bestowing the name Piercea in 1759 on a West Indian plant , Miller honoured his noble friend , ‘ not only a great encourager of botanical skills , but greatly skilled in the science itself ’ . |
| 2 | His book Norway , the Northern Playground ( 1903 ) is not only a great story of adventure and exploration , but also a gold-mine of information about the folklore and way of life of the Norwegians in their mountain homes . |
| 3 | The loss of Alsace and Lorraine had taken away not only the greater part of the French iron industry but also some of her oldest-established textile mills ; this cut into the market for France 's own dyestuffs industry which , after a good start in the 1860s , dwindled away , and French textile manufacturers soon met their dyestuff needs from Germany or Switzerland . |
| 4 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 5 | It is not just the great majority of the people of Scotland who have suffered at the hands of Lamont and the Tory Government , but people all over the UK . |
| 6 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
| 7 | I 'm not really a great follower of fashion . |
| 8 | So at its worst it is a seriously and life-threatening paralysing disease , but in its minor forms not really a great deal of trouble , although upsetting enough for the patients who have it . |
| 9 | It looks like that not really a great deal of account has been taken of the extra costs that are incurred by visually handicapped people in courses of study , such as paying for er expensive , extremely expensive , computing equipment which is n't a luxury , it 's a necessity quite often for many people , especially doing science courses . |
| 10 | The popular fronts themselves became still more intransigent in their demands : both the Latvian and the Lithuanian fronts , in late 1989 , were openly contemplating the possibility of formal secession from the USSR , not simply a greater measure of autonomy , and the three fronts jointly organised a Baltic Assembly which called for political independence for the republics within a ‘ neutral and demilitarised Balto-Scandia ’ . |
| 11 | Roughly half of Solihull teachers claim that they have , and not surprisingly a greater proportion of these are the most senior ones . |
| 12 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 13 | He warns that there is not uncommonly a great deal of rain after midsummer , between the hay and corn harvests , which diminishes the likelihood of satisfactory ‘ air ’ ; the hardy traveller will be recompensed by flitting clouds , mists and roaring waterfalls . |