Example sentences of "[adv] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 2 | It was suddenly a great relief to be able to speak the truth . |
| 3 | Her father , suddenly a great man , to die so soon ! |
| 4 | Suddenly a great flame lit the room . |
| 5 | Ronni was suddenly a great deal more confused than angry . |
| 6 | Suddenly a great cloud of smoke billowed out from the gun . |
| 7 | And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind ; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with , or is antagonistic to , the whole interest of the State , they will have done the greatest harm they can do . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is quite rightly a great traditionalist , and so am I. Nothing that I am proposing will result in hand pumps being phased out . |
| 9 | ( This had no bearing on the incinerable nature of the occasion ; it was merely a great favourite of us both . ) |
| 10 | David has mellowed and quietened down a great deal . |
| 11 | ( It is rather like dropping a cork into water : at first it bobs up and down a great deal , but as the ripples carry away its energy , it eventually settles down to a stationary state . ) |
| 12 | These were put in much faster and deeper , able to accept a greater charge , and be capable of breaking down a greater burden . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps a great writer . ’ |
| 14 | There is more to these pieces than just a virtuosic exterior , though I should add that they are perhaps a great deal more amusing to perform than to listen to ‘ en bloc ’ . |
| 15 | Lendl has never found it difficult to look sullen , and while blaming his lack of form on the fact that this was his first match indoors since the final of the Nabisco Masters in New York last December , lack of motivation was perhaps a greater factor . |
| 16 | The young seem disposed not to like it ; older people , among them Classical scholars , think better of it , feeling perhaps a greater reverence for the name and nature of Alfred Edward Housman . |
| 17 | It could well be that Matadial was thoroughly discredited , even as the case ran , but with advance information her demolition could have been more clinically achieved , with perhaps a greater effect on the jury and with a better chance of involving Zaidie in the destruction of the Crown case on motive and malice . |
| 18 | can not have four week deferred period So what we 're saying is the risk there is too high , and there 's obviously a greater chance they 'll be claiming at a very early stage Okay , so the client has the choice , say , apart from the group fours , they could be four thirty and twenty-six and fifty-two , but again dove-tailing into what they 've already got . |
| 19 | And secondly , you 'll get a greater , obviously a greater amount of litter , because they do eat as they walk across the sites . |
| 20 | Having this on top is a obviously a great shock for them . |
| 21 | Obviously a great thickness of sediment must he heavy and must press down that part of the crust on which it rests , just as the weight of continental ice caused subsidence of the great land masses during the Pleistocene . |
| 22 | erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married . |
| 23 | Obviously a great deal will depend on the ability the clergyman to communicate in ways the family find helpful so that they feel they are central to these arrangements . |
| 24 | When Barry came to see me , he was suffering from physical manifestations of what was obviously a great deal of pent-up aggression . |
| 25 | There is , however , obviously a great deal more to the history of Siberia than a catalogue of criminality and cold . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's obviously a great deal more to this than meets the eye . |
| 27 | Braitenberg 's scheme is obviously a great over-simplification which neglects the special connections that exist between regions with related functions , but it may nonetheless point to the overall pattern through which the neocortex carries on its extensive conversations with itself . |
| 28 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 29 | It could bring the authority 's name into bad repute , so a greater watch is kept . ’ |
| 30 | Rapid growth ( high productivity ) means ready absorption of red light and so a greater difference between red and NIR bidirectional reflectance than one with slower growth . |