Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In our view , a proper analysis of the risks attached to the project would have allowed it to proceed with a greater appreciation of likely achievement . ’ |
| 2 | It looks like a great deal to ask of our underpaid and undersupported teachers . |
| 3 | Otherwise I if it 's appropriate I 'll say it looks like a great newsletter . |
| 4 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 5 | Gavin , who chose The Crusades , 1095–1154 , as his final specialist subject , said : ‘ It came as a great surprise to win . |
| 6 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 7 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 8 | However , it came as a great shock to Richard when , some time later , this friend fell into profanity and drunkenness . |
| 9 | It came as a great shock . |
| 10 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 11 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 12 | Presently a window was opened and framed a sharp white peak which seemed to be hanging almost directly overhead ; it glistened like a great diamond . |
| 13 | It sailed in a great arc , hung poised for a fraction of a second , then plunged out of sight to the sea . |
| 14 | It arrived in a great flood , a shock-wave of water that could be felt and heard . |
| 15 | And it turned to a great marsh . |
| 16 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 17 | It calls for a great deal of skill and judgment and is a shot that needs to be practised regularly in order to play it well . |
| 18 | Because Hemsworth has always had a large Labour majority , it sounds like a great monolith , but it is very far from that . |
| 19 | Here , in Mixed Life , he relates that individual experience of Christ in every man to the Christ who transcends individual limitations and is expressed by the whole body of those in whom he is born in time through their knowing and doing : It is precisely because of these " sundri wirchynges " in the lives of individuals dictated by their particular talents and circumstances that discussion of active and contemplative life tends to polarise life-styles which are then also subject to evaluation in which contemplation is more highly esteemed simply because it relates to a greater state of spiritual awareness . |
| 20 | ‘ It fell from a great height . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Did it come as a great surprise to you ? ’ |
| 22 | Soon it thickened to a great blanket , wrapping itself round the windows so that every candle in the place had to be lit . |
| 23 | It remains to a great extent subjective and may therefore be open to disagreement in analysis . |
| 24 | Liathach , like its neighbour , is best seen from a distance , a popular viewpoint being the private road to Coulin Lodge , where it towers as a great wedge across the waters of Loch Clair , after a short stroll from the pass road . |
| 25 | It comes with a great number of examples for each command , so if you are unsure how to do something you can load the demo to see how the Author would have done it . |
| 26 | A good deal of the letter was fantasy on the part of its sixteen-year-old author and it ended with a great flourish of romantic rhetoric . |
| 27 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 28 | It ended in a great row . |
| 29 | It subsided in a great cloud of dust . |