Example sentences of "[not/n't] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The er pleasant background , nice light on the horses , but I find the , the subject matter , you know , okay , it 's okay but it 's not a great competition winning er , picture . |
| 2 | His position in life , although not a great revenue-earner , was obviously supplemented by an endless supply of young girls who found his lifestyle exciting . |
| 3 | Walter Ash Clara knew quite well who Walter Ash was , and therefore did not flash this letter around the classroom , as she knew he was not a great prestige catch ; on the contrary , he had a reputation for being rather a bore . |
| 4 | I 'm really not a great buyer — if I ca n't wear it and I ca n't eat it , then I 'm not that bothered . |
| 5 | But it was not a great deceit , after all , and perhaps one day she might be able to explain it to them , and apologise , but for the present matters could not have arranged themselves much better . |
| 6 | I 'm not a vegetarian now , but I 'm not a great meat eater either . |
| 7 | I mean I , I , I do n't drink a lot , I mean maybe after I 've been out in the hills you have got to drink something to replace the sweat , but I 'm not a great drinker and I do n't , I do n't smoke and I , I do n't like discos or anything like that |
| 8 | There is not a great depository in heaven , there 's not a huge warehouse , and you come to God and say oh Father ! |
| 9 | Another analyst , who asked not to be named , said : ‘ It 's not a great surprise . |
| 10 | Although not a great speaker , Gore was generally considered to be hard-working and conscientious and was renowned as an expert in arms control , defence and foreign policy matters . |
| 11 | Erm if you have , if you envisage the sea this is the top , I 'm not a great artist as you can see but you , things er here 's my boat sailing on the top of the sea , well there 's laws related to that erm when does a boat , for example , enter territorial waters , come within your law . |
| 12 | We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away . |
| 13 | It was not a great day for public transport in the Val d'Aosta . |
| 14 | Thankfully , according to Wade Smith 's sales figures , Liverpool is not a great supporter of multi-coloured high-tops . |
| 15 | There is a rough division between east and west which became apparent in Peter Webster 's study of Severn Valley wares found on the Wall ( 1972 ) , for , although there is not a great quantity it has a definite western bias , which suggests that the means of transport was by the sea . |
| 16 | I 'm not certain , I 'm not a great expert on it , but erm , the situation seems to be , that after the First World War , the central power was Germany and Austria , were defeated . |
| 17 | At this time of year , there 's not a great choice of fish . |
| 18 | It claims some 150,000 Interactive Unix licencees and says it added around 75,000 last year — many , but ‘ not a great percentage ’ were upgrades . |
| 19 | It claims some 150,000 Interactive Unix licensees and says it added around 75,000 last year — many , but ‘ not a great percentage ’ were upgrades . |
| 20 | There were archers with them , but not a great company , and some three-score men-at-arms , all mounted ; and a knot of bright devices he could not quite read at that distance , though their colours did almost as well . |
| 21 | She 's not a great friend , I hope ? |
| 22 | But he 's not a great conversationalist and not a great chatterer and talker and worker out of problems , like , for instance , Viscount Whitelaw , whose genius is that he 's always absolutely ready with many views on every single problem that 's going , political , policy and so on . |
| 23 | It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’ |
| 24 | Not a great performance but a clean sheet away from home is always something worth celebrating . |
| 25 | He delivered fifty lectures in the course of three months but , as we have noted , was not a great success . |
| 26 | The party was not a great success . |
| 27 | The three-day thrash in Philadelphia , which coincided with an exhibition of products called Biotech ‘ 83 , was not a great success , and the proceedings left a bad taste in several hundred mouths . |
| 28 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 29 | The experiment was not a great success , though all three stayed in the force for some time . |
| 30 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |