Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to its short running time , overall details of aircraft and events are not given great depth , but to the collector of archive aviation films this tape will be a welcome addition to the home library . |
| 2 | Portacaval shunt surgery has not enjoyed great popularity because of the very high incidence of postoperative encephalopathy in the elderly . |
| 3 | It does not need great intelligence or ‘ professionalism ’ to realise that the dispersal of those kinds of books is not the same thing as clearing popular fiction . |
| 4 | Inflatables do not need great pressure to keep them hard enough for the sea . |
| 5 | On the other hand , well paid or not you will not enjoy great security . |
| 6 | It would be both remarkable and alarming if that change alone did not bring greater scrutiny to bear on the perennial dilemmas of NATO strategy and of roles and responsibilities in the Alliance . |
| 7 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 8 | Similarly , a company is only making problems for itself by creating a norm of people working extra hours , putting staff under stress which impacts on their home lives and which probably does not achieve greater productivity since it is commonly believed that working beyond 40 to 50 hours a weeks results in time spent which is increasingly unproductive . |
| 9 | Evidence from the first and second waves of reform does not give great comfort to reformers . |
| 10 | This will not provide great accuracy but is thought to be quite satisfactory for the present purpose . |
| 11 | I hold the view very strongly — and I know I have been criticised for it — that when a government has not got great experience , is a minority government , it is essential if you can possibly support it that it should be able to speak with a strong voice to the countries of the world . |
| 12 | His later Lives do not inspire great confidence in their historical details about a young king seeking the hand of Offa 's daughter in marriage and falling a victim to the machinations of Queen Cynethryth , who alleged that Aethelberht 's real intention was to reconnoitre the Mercian kingdom with a view to invading it , and when the Chronicon ex Chronicis also claims that Aethelberht was put to death by Offa at the instigation of Queen Cynethryth it is not necessarily independent of the legend . |
| 13 | In our opinion , the driveline is the best BMW has yet made and , despite the change of dynamic emphasis , it 's impossible not to derive great pleasure from this alone . |
| 14 | He did not have great difficulty with Churchill . |
| 15 | In recent years his ideas have been heavily criticised , and I would guess that his writings do not have great influence on young teachers of English . |
| 16 | We do not have great enthusiasm for the Bill . |
| 17 | In themselves they may not have great meaning . |
| 18 | Mortality statistics , too , are not restricted to the unemployed : how do we know that they are not indicating greater health problems in the population as a whole during times of economic difficulty ? |
| 19 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 20 | The duration of the nadir could only be graded into coarse divisions of less than one second , one to two seconds , or more than two seconds as the paper speed at which the recordings were made did not allow greater accuracy . |
| 21 | Why did they not receive greater support ? |
| 22 | ‘ I did not play great golf , but I putted well , ’ said Lawrie who three times sank chances from four yards elsewhere . |
| 23 | An interview with this adviser subsequently confirmed that the self-appraisal was not accorded great importance : ‘ On the role of the self-appraisal , it seems to me that the whole thing has been made into a very big deal and ought not to be . |
| 24 | This would not place great pressure on the educational system but would have a considerable impact on the educational possibilities for the Down 's child and their public acceptability . |
| 25 | The conclusion is surely that they do not place great store by our profession or its body . |
| 26 | The Smiths , the Kays and the Wyllies were humble men who stayed on in their native county and did not amass great wealth , nevertheless , they are remembered long after most of the supposedly important people of their generations have been forgotten . |
| 27 | Erm but , but they 're an easy target to go for as opposed to , I mean Mao could e perhaps as easily as argued , saying you know commercialization is not the way forward , erm and we do n't want greater interaction with the world economy erm as opposed to saying , you know , overthrow the local landlords . |
| 28 | WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP Great title for an unfocussed basketball movie directed by Ron Bull Durham Shelton . |
| 29 | The England team had a few players who were later to play first-class cricket , and were brought together by one W.S. Donne , who , if he did n't enjoy great success on the Olympic playing field , achieved eminence in Rugby Union , elected president of the RFU in 1923–24 . |
| 30 | The company could n't foresee great success or they would have tied up the band for years by way of contract options . |