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 | They would never be friends , but by keeping a great distance , they might not become enemies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had become increasingly alienated from her mother and they were rowing a great deal . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | flapping a great sheet , |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The future is now also looking a great deal rosier for children with solid tumours . |
| 23 | Those who died while protecting the Lithuanian parliament from Soviet tanks and the ‘ black beret ’ crack troops were hardly imagining a great role for Lithuania in world councils : they just wanted their country to run its own affairs without foreign domination , which they have now achieved . |
| 24 | ‘ Always ’ was an odd choice of word , denoting a great length of time . |
| 25 | This in turn made it necessary to repeat the entry for all related activities , causing a great deal of duplication of records . |
| 26 | You might have perhaps two or three dozen , causing a great deal of itching and red rashes — very , very unpleasant , but easy to get rid of . |
| 27 | Although I realise that he can not know of a particular incident that has been drawn to my attention today , is he aware that information has been sent to deceased claimants , thus causing a great deal of distress to the families concerned ? |
| 28 | Therefore during every working day many thousands of items had to be delivered causing a great deal of work , plus a security risk . |
| 29 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 30 | Ultimately , though , Live have a way to go if they are to find the rock niche they seek and ‘ Mental Jewelry ’ — despite possessing a great level of enthusiasm and commitment — is not representative enough of any one particular musical genre to fully captivate a specific audience . |