Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Third World countries , even or especially those only slightly affected by western economies , almost all active men and their wives and children are engaged in trade ; if we imagine the corn and wool from local sources , the oil and wine from further off , the spices from the Far East and the slaves from heaven-knows-where who filled the fairs and markets of Europe in increasing quantities in the eleventh and twelfth centuries — above all , if we contemplate the great stone buildings and recall the quarries whence came the stone — we can see that there is an immense effort here largely hidden from our eyes . |
| 2 | Combine the great cities of Rome , Florence and Venice with each other , or with a resort on the Neapolitan Riviera or the rolling rural countryside of Tuscany and Umbria . |
| 3 | I hate the great outdoors as you know |
| 4 | I can remember one , one girl , I mean the great sin was to steal anything , and er they 'd found in her , her satchel somebody else 's pencil . |
| 5 | It is a strange feeling to be in the company of men and sense the great joy in your soul and yet no one recognises it and your joy can not be communicated . |
| 6 | A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time . |
| 7 | Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ . |
| 8 | The appeal of St James , and his influence , became for a space immense ; his cockle shell a great mark of prestige and spiritual hope worn by successful pilgrims , or those who wished to be thought so , for centuries to come . |
| 9 | Companion animals provide a great benefit for a large number of people . |
| 10 | The 1990s provide a great opportunity for Her Majesty 's Government to demonstrate to our Community partners the validity of the new hybrid approach that the Government have pioneered . |
| 11 | We recommend contacting Cedok once you know where you want to go as they can arrange package holidays as well as provide a great deal of information for the independent traveller . |
| 12 | Clothes , too , although essentially intended to protect from the elements , provide a great deal of information about the wearer . |
| 13 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 14 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 15 | Despite these problems , manorial court rolls provide a great deal of information that is of use to the genealogist and they enable the family historian to gain insights into how the local society in which his ancestors lived was administered and to see what disputes arose . |
| 16 | Floorcoverings withstand a great deal of wear and tear in the average home , and buying the wrong type can be a hideously expensive mistake , so knowing what to put where is very important . |
| 17 | Some things are going to have to last you a very long time and withstand a great deal of wear so these must be the best of their kind that you can possibly afford . |
| 18 | All boys when about 12 undergo a great increase festival , the Sari , their second ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ , which gives them the internal clothing of the hunter and fisherman . |
| 19 | ‘ I sense a great team spirit , onshore and offshore , ’ he added . |
| 20 | Mum , ma I want a great hat mum |
| 21 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 22 | British shoppers tend to be ruggedly self-sufficient ; Brooks Brothers customers usually want a great deal of help while selecting the exact same suit they have worn since their fathers first took them to the emporium . |
| 23 | If you want a great game with loads of depth and spooky animation , you 'll never get it all into 64K of memory . |
| 24 | In the middle are figures such as Godfrey Bradman and Stuart Lipton who build a great deal . |
| 25 | She said there was this female , that the other thing , and there was a whole long list of things that pointed to this interpretation , and it was all part of a , as you say a great mass of data , that erm , is , is quite mind-bogglingly large , if you actually erm , see it in words . |
| 26 | The second five are more difficult , but probably say a great deal about the style of management you worked under , and the quality of relationships you had with colleagues and peers . |
| 27 | When we look at the open countryside it does n't really to my mind say a great deal about er what is what should be considered acceptable . |
| 28 | ‘ Mail Newspapers and other newspaper proprietors clearly attach a great deal of importance to maintaining their goodwill and reputation with their readers by exercising careful control over who can advertise in their newspapers and what kinds of advertisements appear there , ’ the judge said . |
| 29 | The homoclinic orbits to the origin that lie close to X spiral a great number of times around C+ or C " before returning to the origin ; as you work away from X along the spiral the number of turns around C+ or C " decreases . |
| 30 | Indeed , even those who endure a great deal of suffering and loneliness will nonetheless claim that life still offers rich and satisfying experiences . |