Example sentences of "[verb] a great [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these classes loves a great musical treat , that is , a powerful sound ; to that end they play with a rich texture , extremely fast , study the most difficult and the fastest octaves . |
| 2 | On 8 May 1429 the English abandoned the siege ; France , through Joan , had won a great moral victory . |
| 3 | It means that the proletariat is leading the entire working nation behind it , that it is responsible for the development of the whole of society , that it is becoming a great collective organiser of the entire national economy , that the direction of development is not towards a widening of the gulf between the fundamental class ( the working class and peasantry ) and that things are not moving towards a ‘ third revolution ’ , etc . |
| 4 | You can win a great new patio |
| 5 | Now the water was chest-high — more than that as we struggled round a corner , to meet a great frothing wave . |
| 6 | Although difficulties in reliably specifying the appropriate lexical input to phonological variables are reasonably well documented , they may be more widespread and pose a greater methodological problem than these rather scattered observations in the literature suggest . |
| 7 | If this trend continues , building societies are poised to provide a greater competitive challenge to the retail banking sector . |
| 8 | Happy dog Thor drops a great muddy log on Bill 's foot . |
| 9 | Speculation as to the causes of queues has included a greater public awareness of the CAB , growing numbers in receipt of state benefits , unemployment and the availability of credit , the rising divorce rate , and a complex legislative programme that has affected clients detrimentally . |
| 10 | Some of us felt that more attention could be paid to this aspect , particularly in order to obtain a greater economic return for the heavy expenditure on government assistance . |
| 11 | Gullible had n't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison . |
| 12 | At the same time a change of register is always a relief , and a theme which is ‘ opened out ’ over a wide span has a greater emotional potential than one which stays in a small area . |
| 13 | No one knows social security better and no one has a greater social commitment . |
| 14 | The West has a great political interest in seeing democratic systems based on market economies develop in Eastern Europe , since a collapse into worse poverty and anarchy would be a disaster , a tragic first chapter to the new peace between East and West . |
| 15 | Sutherland has a great sporting tradition . |
| 16 | ‘ Every country has a great national epic , ’ said Pierre Berton , Canada 's best-known journalist . |
| 17 | At the crossing , the vault is higher still ( the loftiest Romanesque example in Europe ) and has a great octagonal tower built on squinches . |
| 18 | Britain has a great artistic heritage and a lively contemporary arts scene . |
| 19 | Like Mr Major , Kenneth Clarke has a taste for chicken jalfrezi , but the Cabinet 's heavyweight diner also has a great soft spot for a grilled king prawn curry ( £12.50 ) . |
| 20 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 21 | He suffered a great personal tragedy two years ago but he remains with the orchestra . |
| 22 | I done a great big chicken Sunday and it was a beauty . |
| 23 | Suddenly amid the grunts and petty adjustments there would appear a great big smile on his face as he contemplated certain of the pictures . |
| 24 | Along with that it will be informing local people about epilepsy to create a greater public understanding of the condition , will raise funds for the association , and represent its aims and objectives at local levels . |
| 25 | They are terrified by Labour party proposals to create a great new machine spitting out red tape all over the countryside . |
| 26 | So that er we can sort of give a great big bit of publicity for the schools , for the individual , for the concept of design and technology at A level . |
| 27 | The Nitsa has its own snackbar and there 's an excellent bar just opposite called Tropicana which is a favourite with Club 18–30 holidaymakers serving a great English breakfast and a good variety of snacks all day . |
| 28 | Another Lassus pupil at Munich , Leonhard Lechner ( c. 1553–1606 ) , later a convert to Protestantism , began his career with Latin church music in his master 's style , composed a great tri-choral , 24-part epithalamium , ‘ Quid chaos ’ ( 1582 ) in the Venetian manner , and bade farewell to life in an extraordinary set of fifteen Spruche von Leben und Tod — the dramatic power and profound emotion of which , however , he had already anticipated in ‘ O Tod , du bist ein bittre Gallen ’ , one of his Newe teutsche Lieder ( Nuremberg , 1582 ) . |
| 29 | Cases reported here were associated with 50 µg oestrogen combined pills , mostly before this risk was recognised ; it remains to be seen whether 30 µg pills are safer , but as the progestogen component may carry a greater hypertensive risk than the oestrogen component all cases still need careful follow up at not less than three monthly intervals . |
| 30 | as if to confirm his train of thought there came a great crashing and a screeching of metal . |