Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method is becoming increasingly popular and has great benefits in terms of aerobatic flying . |
| 2 | He is immensely strong , but also shyly gentle and has great sense of humour . |
| 3 | Another person , though lacking any special expertise , knows local conditions well and has great insight into the needs of his children . |
| 4 | But if I have to choose , then William Golding : he has a tremendous command of the language , is economical , and has great gifts of description . ’ |
| 5 | It is a robust and very useful aircraft which is cheap to run and has great endurance . |
| 6 | My company is an outstandingly tolerant one , and has great respect for the individual . |
| 7 | Thigh : The schoolboy trick of giving someone a ‘ dead leg ’ — i.e. kneeing them in the side of the thigh — is very effective and causes great pain but usually no lasting injury . |
| 8 | The dwarf maintains an assault on the trees for long periods and achieves little ( the equivalent of frequent , low-magnitude events ) ; the giant sleeps most of the time but occasionally wakes and causes great destruction ( a catastrophic event ) whereas the man works regular hours and systematically achieves the greatest effects ( events that occur once or twice each year ) . |
| 9 | A finger lever on each side is hinged in the middle and allows greater control of individual sets of cams , particularly useful when trying to extract the unit . |
| 10 | He digs his bed up in the stable if he 's too warm and digs great holes in his field . |
| 11 | The family has a distribution covering most parts of the world and shows great uniformity of anatomy . |
| 12 | Prince Charles has been deer stalking since he was a child and takes great pride in a clean kill . |
| 13 | The text maintains insistently that Jesus 's rightful heir was his brother James , and takes great pains to argue that Simon Peter never in fact ‘ defected ’ to Pauline thought . |
| 14 | Streep grabs the opportunity to mock such concerns with undisguised relish , providing one of the best comic performances of her career , while Hawn seems curiously ill at ease and takes great care to show us she remains in superb bodily nick . |
| 15 | Balance is difficult to define in simple terms and requires great sensitivity by journalists if it is to be achieved . |
| 16 | It is here that the nature of the structural changes raises troubling questions about what defines the ‘ state ’ and creates great uncertainty about the validity of many previous ideas and policy prescriptions . |
| 17 | Besides , ’ he added , ‘ she 's devoted to little Hilary and finds great comfort in him . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 19 | The crown-of-thorns starfish occasionally proliferates to plague proportions and devastates great areas of coral . |
| 20 | The village is in a beautiful situation , and attracts great numbers of visitors and sightseers during the summer when Sledmere House and grounds are open . |
| 21 | The second half of the chapter proposes that whole group work is a working method which develops out of small group work and gives greater coherence to it . |
| 22 | This is semantic nonsense and does great harm to management thinking . |
| 23 | Within this group there was and remains great variation in financial status by age , class , and gender . |
| 24 | However , to establish from this that taste is objective he needs an extra premise : that higher art compels greater attention and provides greater enjoyment to the observer than low art . |
| 25 | The use of the modular approach initially brings the very real advantage that it appears to be more acceptable to users and provides greater insight for the designer of the design problem . |
| 26 | The allocation in the budget of an annual sum for marketing helps in the setting of targets and provides greater control for all . |
| 27 | He drew in a deep kapalabhati breath , concentrating his mind on the renewal of his ch'i , the inner energy which increases strength and speed of reflexes , and imparts greater pliability . |
| 28 | Authentic Italian cooking can be very healthy — witness the relatively low incidence of heart disease in the Italian peninsula — and makes great use of fresh vegetables . |
| 29 | The Riesling Clos Häuserer 1988 ( £7.25 ) is tight and steely on the nose but has great fruit purity and excellent acidity on the palate — needs time but will be superb . |
| 30 | This method has nothing in common with the pivotal method , but has great advantages in certain circumstances . |