Example sentences of "[v-ing] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our proposal is a modest one : we are trying to implement a more just system rather than tackling a great injustice . |
| 2 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 3 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |
| 4 | It is worth remembering that only one boat in the tottering Polaris fleet is working ; serious cracks in the cooling systems of the other boats are necessitating a great deal of expenditure and causing much anxiety to the Ministry of Defence . |
| 5 | Oliver wondered what the connection was between playing at stealing from the old gentleman 's pocket and becoming a great man . |
| 6 | But seriously , Strachan *appears* to have all the credentials for becoming a great manager … been there , done it , GREAT motivator , lead by example stuff . |
| 7 | But he was concerned to prevent the system becoming a greater burden than ever through malpractice of the sort which the Worcester monk Hemming reports when he says that estates were sometimes taken even when the money due had been paid on time . |
| 8 | They would never be friends , but by keeping a great distance , they might not become enemies . |
| 9 | More affectionate is his account of Minton who had , as he records , ‘ been brought along to my flat one evening by Keith Vaughan , where he sat on the floor with a drink in his hand , laughing a great deal and saying very little . |
| 10 | These teams may take part in several competitions in the area each week acquiring a great deal of knowledge and expertise as well as the prizes . |
| 11 | The patterns hinted at in the data on the post-assessment engagements with clients could be construed as revealing a greater sense of purposefulness in the work undertaken . |
| 12 | Cultural artefacts and occurrences often previously perceived on the margins of what constituted the culture — for example how a culture defined and treated insanity — were recognised as an aid in revealing a great deal about the cultural orders celebrated at a society 's centre ( e.g. the way court ceremony was enacted ) . |
| 13 | The unit 's financial difficulties were absorbing a great deal of the district team 's time and energy , and the promising consortia development of the previous year had foundered as each district in the consortia sought to protect its own providers . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 15 | A cut-and-cover tunnel would involve slicing a great swathe through the wood to construct the tunnel , quite apart from the £10 million that it would cost . |
| 16 | The language form which becomes the target for many acquirers of BSL is therefore not BSL itself but rather some pidgin sign form incorporating a great deal of English syntax . |
| 17 | She had become increasingly alienated from her mother and they were rowing a great deal . |
| 18 | We expected to get a variety of other interesting specimens in the highlands of Arussi , where Ivor Buxton had discovered the mountain nyala in 1910 ; this large buck , resembling a greater kudu , was known only from the highlands of Arussi and Bale . |
| 19 | If this interpretation is correct , then evolutionism may have played a role in promoting a greater awareness of environmental fragility mainly through its Lamarckian rather than its Darwinian version . |
| 20 | We may conclude then that ‘ de-industrialization ’ is meaningful as a simple description of a relentless process in which the manufacturing sector suffers declining shares of total employment , inevitably leading to the service sector capturing a greater share , but that the process takes on a different pace and complexion in different countries and places . |
| 21 | Another exceptional service available to Harvey Nichols customers is Personal Shopping offering individual consultation and advice on every aspect of your image and wardrobe , with total respect for your own budget , so saving a great deal of time and indecision . |
| 22 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 23 | A comparison of these three types of CAD techniques ( optimal , simulation modular and simulation linear ) was thus made , with a view to developing a greater understanding of the means by which the computer may be applied as an aid to design . |
| 24 | But once he reached Stowey the Coleridges greeted him warmly at Lime Street , where the cottage had gained another new resident only a week before : on 14 May , Sara had been ‘ safely delivered of a fine boy ’ , the child being given the name Berkeley in honour of the philosopher , for whom Coleridge was developing a great admiration . |
| 25 | flapping a great sheet , |
| 26 | The spaceport was off in the distance ahead of them , a giant depression in the midst of the great glacial plateau of ice — the City 's edge forming a great wall about the outer perimeter . |
| 27 | Ebensten drew special attention to a ‘ dance of lament of the four maidens amongst the dead bodies of the soldiers , who lie forming a great star with their feet as its centre . ’ |
| 28 | erm the best candidate for that kind of deposit are deep see cores — I mean there 's a continuous rain of stuff falling from the surface of the sea to the bottom of the sea and forming a great sort of ooze on the bottom and gradually compacting down into rock — cores of this stuff are now available and palaeontologists can look and see what happens . |
| 29 | Some of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ cheerleaders ’ in the party and popular press see her as having achieved a virtual revolution in British politics , restoring the authority of government , putting the trade unions in their place , taming a greedy and parasitic public sector , and regaining a greater freedom of choice for people in many areas . |
| 30 | The future is now also looking a great deal rosier for children with solid tumours . |