Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 2 | i ) Films of risky junctions tend to contain a great deal of information related to risk . |
| 3 | The last grants to pass the great seal ( although others were in the pipeline ) were the appointments of the chief baron of the exchequer and two serjeants at law on 14 and 15 June — a last attempt by the establishment to pretend that it was business as normal . |
| 4 | The last grants to pass the great seal ( although others were in the pipeline ) were the appointments of the chief baron of the exchequer and two serjeants at law on 14 and 15 June — a last attempt by the establishment to pretend that it was business as normal . |
| 5 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 6 | So we thought , first the Caribbean for a couple of weeks , then , later in the year , your mother quite wants to see the Great Wall of China before she 's too old . |
| 7 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |
| 8 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 9 | Accordingly , the researcher needs to know a great deal about likely extraneous factors so that they can be controlled . |
| 10 | But we do need to remember the great cost of exercising our right to have double standards and also to ask ourselves whether expenditure to make us extremely safe from one form of risk may not sometimes make us more vulnerable to others . |
| 11 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 12 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 13 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |
| 14 | That day and later at Ascot , rocketing clear in all his glory was how I want to remember the great Nijinsky . |
| 15 | If you want to escape the Great Bard for a while , take a day trip to the beautiful Cotswolds to nose around its idyllic villages and walk in the beautiful scenery . |
| 16 | With this in mind , in the following chapter , I begin my account of modern social anthropology by showing what illumination this approach brings to beliefs which at first sight appear to require a great deal of explanation . |
| 17 | You see , I have come to experience a great truth of life : love . |
| 18 | This presents more difficulties for the researcher , who has to do a great deal of interpretation in order to make inferences from what people actually do to their motivations for doing it . |
| 19 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 20 | But , if you are one of those people who has to read a great deal — in connection with your job or because you are studying — then you will soon begin to appreciate the benefits of being able to read more quickly . |
| 21 | The turner still has to hold a great juddering chisel in his hands and relies on a good eye and a steady hand to ensure a true cut . |
| 22 | … He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what . |
| 23 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 24 | Anna stopped to examine the great plates of fungus growing out from a tree-stump . |
| 25 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 26 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 27 | What she needed was to sleep , and she tried to suppress the great mountain of self-pity that threatened to swamp her . |
| 28 | This lamp , through its ability to reduce explosions , was claimed to produce a great improvement in the working conditions that the miners had to endure . |
| 29 | An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might . |
| 30 | And little by little they came to see the great Christian doctrine that eternal sin must be , in the very nature of things , eternal punishment or eternal misery . |