Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [art] great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Selkirk coach , John Rutherford , anticipates an open contest and noted : ‘ When you see the Watsonian back division it represents a great challenge for our boys . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It offers a greater choice of workers while linking in with other areas . |
| 4 | If our country is to maintain economic stability based upon traditional industries it needs a greater proportion of locomotive , shipbuilding , power stations , etc. , than we currently enjoy . |
| 5 | Plus it has a great speech about robins . |
| 6 | When an animal is shot or caught in a snare , or chased and caught , it has a great deal of suffering . |
| 7 | Such an approach is not without its difficulties , but it has a great deal of potential , particularly in relation to inner city areas . |
| 8 | In the abstract it has a great deal of force . |
| 9 | As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 10 | Aluminium likes silicon : it has a greater affinity for inorganic silicate than for anything else . |
| 11 | Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all . |
| 12 | What was it Dr Johnson said — ‘ Love is only one of many passions and it has no great influence on the sum of life ’ . ’ |
| 13 | It is crammed with incidents involving Rangers and Celtic players but it has no great love for either club . |
| 14 | It has the greatest influence on the security judgement . |
| 15 | It has the great asset of open access and staff/patient relationships are excellent . |
| 16 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 17 | It contains a great amount of statistical evidence and pictures and models . |
| 18 | It wants a great deal of working … newspaper office . |
| 19 | It places a great responsibility upon us to ensure that the children of Sunderland are given the very best possible value-for-money meals , while also ensuring that public funds are used to the best effect . |
| 20 | 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 ) |
| 21 | Last night a close friend said : ‘ He 's really chuffed , it seals a great year for him . |
| 22 | It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . |
| 23 | At the very least , it says a great deal about the conspiratorial mentality which the leaders of the Communist system have created that so many defectors tend to see deception at work everywhere . |
| 24 | It says a great deal about our attitude to the role of the opposition that you regard everything that they do as being a little more than attempt to seek a political advantage . |
| 25 | There was some scepticism about this solution — given that we had altered the recommendations for doctors and dentists — but it says a great deal for the good sense of the nurses that they accepted the plan . |
| 26 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |
| 27 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 28 | It says a great deal for the language faculty of the Polytechnic of Central London that it not only survived having this vociferous cuckoo of a course in its midst but is planning to repeat it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It shows the great champion in the throes of the toughest bout of his life , depicting his struggle with grace and poignance . |