Example sentences of "[adv] as a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel has a T.V. and video , and offers snacks , as well as a great English breakfast . |
| 2 | In Paris Haussmann had no such tabula rasa , so that demolition meant displacement of established communities , a circumstance which gave rise to bitter complaints , many justified , by those caught in the upheaval , as well as a great deal of sordid speculation by those who could buy run-down property cheaply and sell dear for compensation . |
| 3 | The next morning brought more early arrivals ; namely , the two ladies from Germany — who had travelled together despite what one would have imagined to have been the great contrast in their backgrounds — bringing with them a large team of ladies-in-waiting and footmen , as well as a great many trunks . |
| 4 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 5 | She is a lovely lady as well as a great physio , and we chatted away as she worked on my legs . |
| 6 | ‘ He is a great shot-stopper as well as a great athlete . |
| 7 | Whatever his sins it is clear that a man subject to such fits of remorse would have been well aware that a crusade was a religious act as well as a great military adventure . |
| 8 | Apart from a bit of liquid latex and normal ageing make-up , the rest was mostly acting Brando has been the cinema 's greatest deep-down Method mimic , as well as a great actor . |
| 9 | Besard 's Thesaurus , on the other hand , contains more than forty fantasias and nearly as many praeludia , as well as a great quantity of dances . |
| 10 | It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that there is more variety of treatment , as well as a greater display of creative power , in Monteverdi 's ‘ madrigals ’ than in the similar compositions of all his contemporaries put together . |
| 11 | The story of temperature measurement has to do with the experimental determination of the quantitative laws of expansion as well as a greater theoretical understanding of heat and thermo- dynamics . |