Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next year Minnie I will be forty and hardly able to believe it but I am resolved to make great changes with the help of a hard winter 's work . |
| 2 | Painting by this method I am told requires great patience , and it does indeed take time to achieve such detail . |
| 3 | Beccaria 's ideas had been fated to win great praise but achieve less by way of practical influence in the running of penal systems . |
| 4 | Herbally-based remedies of old , using parts of plants fresh or dried in simple infusions , poultices or decoctions , have been found to have great health benefits but , though their method of application is simple , their prescribing is not , since they have to be tailored not only to a given malady , but to the person concerned . |
| 5 | While younger pupils can not be expected to have great depth of understanding and indeed will not reach a mature conceptual level of historical understanding until their mid-teens , none the less the initial building bricks in the process can be laid from the very beginning of the pupil 's school career . |
| 6 | While bringing many qualities to his new post , Mr Snyder could not be said to possess great insight into the subject — in fact he did n't possess any sight at all ; the new chairman was registered as blind . |
| 7 | Its pectoral fins , freed from the job of providing lift , could be used to give great refinement to the fishes ' control of movement , and their swimming skills reached near-perfection . |
| 8 | Also in the same year he bequeathed £20 a year , the rent from the property known as Gassons in Snodland , to be used to provide great coats for the poor inhabitants of the same parishes . |
| 9 | The Hooligans fought pitched battles among themselves — Chelsea Boys against Fulham Boys , or Chapel Street against Margaret Street — and they were said to take great pride in their famous victories over rival neighbourhoods . |
| 10 | Anchoresses were believed to confer great spiritual benefits on a neighbourhood and all big towns liked to have one . |
| 11 | There were probably many local festivals ( Judges 21:21 ) , but on three occasions in the year all the men were required to attend great national celebrations : |
| 12 | Detailed three-dimensional structural analysis of church buildings is helping to reveal great complexity in their development . |
| 13 | She is expected to place great emphasis on Britain 's contribution to controlling the hole in the ozone layer and global warming . |
| 14 | If by neutralisation is meant establishing Great Power guarantees for the neutrality of states or regions , then Soviet interest in this process or regime certainly was not confined to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 15 | However , I am anticipating having great pleasure in playing the Chandos CD |
| 16 | In his business dealings Edouard had discovered he had a talent for the circuitous approach ; he was beginning to derive great pleasure from deploying it . |