Example sentences of "[det] is a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is a great opportunity here — and the Israelis should seize it , ’ The Washington Post said . |
| 2 | This is a great club , the only one that can beat Liverpool for the enthusiasm of its supporters ’ , he enthused . |
| 3 | When this attempt by pseudo-Britain succeeds , the real British look desperately for evidence of their own national achievement in the first moon landing , and find it in the fact that one of the astronauts is wearing a British watch : ‘ This is a great day for us . |
| 4 | This is a great pity . |
| 5 | From all that he has told me it was a terrible experience , but he has now set up his Foundation to help other sufferers , and this is a great joy to him . |
| 6 | His upbeat — you know how with many conductors this is a great upwards gesture and then a dreadful flop back down — with him there was none of this . |
| 7 | To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfilment to those who are not so fortunate . |
| 8 | This is a great part of the pleasure Matthew Spender found ; discovering craftsmen , for example , one of whom remembered who had built a palazzo in Florence , another who hid in the cellar for fear of thunderstorms , yet another who built him beehives . |
| 9 | If you have n't quite made up your mind , this is a great time for comparison : Ivory Coast pineapples are in the markets now from about 60p . |
| 10 | All in all , this is a great little village , with something for everyone and very friendly locals . |
| 11 | This is a great family holiday . |
| 12 | This is a great offer , but unfortunately you did n't include your address , fax or telephone number . |
| 13 | ‘ This is a great mystery , ’ declares the apostle Paul , for it is so much more than two people getting together . |
| 14 | For most people , this is a great hurdle to overcome . |
| 15 | This is a great loss , because at root there is an integral relation between the ideas of crime and morality . |
| 16 | This is a great help and you may be able to find out if events intend to rotavate by asking around , or speaking to a competitor who rode at the competition the year before . |
| 17 | This is a great blessing , for now they are so near , Ronnie can pop in with the children on the way home from school . |
| 18 | This is a great pity ; the battle between these two paradigms , that of Galton and that of Binet , is a very real one , and to pretend that it does not exist , and that there is no evidence against the paradigm adopted here , is disingenuous . |
| 19 | This is a great advance over the rate achieved by earlier machines , but it still allows a routine lookahead of only four moves . |
| 20 | Lingering problems or not , this is a great moment in Jaguar 's history . |
| 21 | This is a great weekend if you 're planning to entertain a gathering of family and friends . |
| 22 | This is a great asset in favour of high-fibre dieting , but is very far from being the only advantage you gain when you follow the F-Plan slimming method . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the conservation side has hardly been publicised in the case of the London Zoo — and in these pro-environment days where so many people are ‘ going green ’ , this is a great shame . |
| 24 | This is a great groove because you can superimpose the other stylistic feels we 've talked about over the groove . |
| 25 | This is a great idea . |
| 26 | This is a great left-hand exercise because the 2nd finger will stay put while the others move . |
| 27 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 28 | ‘ This is a great result for us . |
| 29 | This is a great picture book on the making of Francis Ford Coppola 's film , as well as an interesting portrait of ol' red eyes himself . |
| 30 | This is a great credit to David 's versatility as a character actor . ’ |