Example sentences of "it be [prep] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like a great athlete . |
| 2 | It 's like a great mist of folly that covers the whole sky : and we shall never see to go by Frith 's light any more . |
| 3 | Machine intelligence presents a slightly different case , because it is to a great extent governed by human intelligence : clearly , when we design an artificial brain , we create it in our own ( intellectual ) image . |
| 4 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless it was with a great sense of relief that she found the patio deserted save for a handful of hotel guests drinking beer and enjoying the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 6 | Ryan 's father 's house was small , really not much bigger than Lorna Lewis 's guest cottage , but it was in a great situation right at the top of the canyon . |
| 7 | Then from out there where Slorne 's gaze had led him , from out of the dark moonlit sky , there came a distant calling of a name , a place , a power , and it was like a great presence he could only feel and not see , and it cast itself over him , and over his cage , and over the whole Zoo , and over more than that . |