Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] great [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This had no bearing on the incinerable nature of the occasion ; it was merely a great favourite of us both . ) |
| 2 | When Barry came to see me , he was suffering from physical manifestations of what was obviously a great deal of pent-up aggression . |
| 3 | This , observed Crosland , ‘ was perhaps the greatest achievement of those years — to bring the problem of teacher supply within sight of solution . ’ |
| 4 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 5 | I was always a great fan of Sheridan . |
| 6 | ‘ I was always a great admirer of Edward Heath , ’ he told me , ‘ because of his passion for music . ’ |
| 7 | After 1880 there was still a great wave of emigration to come . |
| 8 | For the early Free Presbyterians , who had joined the Church when it was still small and there was still a great deal of personal contact between Paisley and his followers , there was a strong personal commitment to Paisley 's political analyses because they had come to trust and respect his judgement and ability as a spiritual leader . |
| 9 | There was still a great deal of work to be done . |
| 10 | There was still a great deal of work to be done ploughing fields reclaimed from the forests . |
| 11 | The Spanish empire , which stretched over the American continent from California to the Straits of Magellan , was the most imposing political structure of the Western world ; to Napoleon it was still the greatest supplier of silver and to British merchants the greatest unexploited market . |
| 12 | There was also a great spirit of unity among the workers and , although the statements were coloured with rhetoric , it was emphasized that at Wolverhampton , ‘ The whole of the workers stood firm and were prepared to fight to the bitter end ’ and that at Hull there was ‘ Alarm — fear — despair — a victorious army disarmed and handed over to its enemies . ’ |
| 13 | He was also a great friend of ACHILLES , whom he taught music and hunting ; according to ancient myth , Chiron taught Achilles to run so swiftly by setting him to chase wild deer and eat their raw flesh . |
| 14 | He was also a great supporter of both the Medics ' and Dentists ' Football Club and the Medical Students ' Rugby Club . |
| 15 | There were photographs and postcard and letters pinned up and pasted on tables and walls , and amongst these more adult decorations , there was also a great quantity of carefully arranged and ancient toys , of a precise and coloured charm ; there was a doll 's house , a glass jar of marbles , a toy iron on a small brass stand , a heap of rag dolls , a row of painted wooden Russian dolls , a nest of coloured eggs , a tower of bricks , a weather house , a huge pendant snowstorm globe containing a small palace and a small forest with small ferny trees . |
| 16 | But he was also a great admirer of Michael Banks , who was his dream casting for the role , and , unless one introduced very tortuous psychopathology , for him to murder the star was utterly unlikely . |
| 17 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 18 | He was also a great lover of grand and light opera , and ever since his seminary days had enjoyed producing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for performance by amateur groups . |
| 19 | There was also a great deal of experimental music . |
| 20 | There was also a great deal of indignation among ordinary British citizens who discovered for the first time after the massacre in Timişoara that Romania was ruled by a brutal tyrant who enjoyed the privileges of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . |
| 21 | There was also a great deal of debate about : the need to popularise knowledge , utilising aspects of working-class and popular culture in adult education ; the problem of linking adult education more effectively to social and economic issues in local communities ; the necessity for greater informality and flexibility in the provision of adult education ; the importance of community-based adult education initiatives ; the challenge of creating new educational ‘ networks ’ to provide a comprehensive community education service linking a range of education providers , formal and non-formal , to the needs and interests of working-class communities . |
| 22 | From the beginning the house and the novel are interconnected , for the eighteenth century , which saw the rise of the novel , was also the great age of the English house . |
| 23 | There was now a great congestion of horsemen milling around in the area between town and castle . |
| 24 | It has been an evocative experience reading these articles , rolling back the years to what was then the greatest adventure of my young life , and these experiences are just as vivid today . |
| 25 | While the secret lay within the grasp of a few , there was never a great danger of a nuclear exchange — except for an accidental one . |
| 26 | Although there was never a great deal of action , at one time the firm must have done a fair trade as old Mr. Talbot was reputed to be a very wealthy man . |