Example sentences of "at great " in BNC.
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| 1 | One suspects that it is his concession to a profound loneliness , a loneliness which he dare breach only at great cost to his true self , his equilibrium as thinker/artist . |
| 2 | The Princess Royal visits Avon ; as President , The Missions to Seamen , visits the Avonmouth International Seafarers ’ Centre at Gloucester Road , Avonmouth , Bristol ; as Patron , The Home Farm Trust , visits The Home Farm Trust 's Registered Office at Merchants House , North Wapping Road , Bristol ; as President , The Save the Children Fund , attends a reception with employees of Halifax Property Services , receives a cheque for the Fund and officially opens Halifax Property Services ' Headquarters building at Great Weston Business Park , Yate , Bristol ; as Patron , The Butler Trust , visits HM Prison Leyhill , Wotton under Edge , Avon ; and , this evening , as President , The Save the Children Fund , attends a reception in celebration of the Fund 's 70th Anniversary at Chavenage House , Tetbury , Gloucestershire . |
| 3 | In the Garden : Drawing the line at great design : Anna Pavord delves into a book that reveals the gardens architects have imagined could accompany their creations |
| 4 | Afterwards The Princess , President of the Save the Children Fund , attended a reception with employees of Halifax Property Services , and opened their Headquarters building at Great Weston Business Park , Yate , Bristol . |
| 5 | Hence the fact that his fellow economists , who regarded it as mistaken , were at great pains to refute it on theoretical grounds . |
| 6 | As shown in Chapter 4 , from medieval times gold was being exported from the Shona-speaking kingdoms centred at Great Zimbabwe through Arab traders at Sofala in Mozambique . |
| 7 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 8 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 9 | Little scientific data has ever been released to assess the effect of the killing on the dolphin population , and much of what is known about the hunt has been gathered at great personal risk by non-government organisations . |
| 10 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 11 | Like Harold Larwood long before him , he used his relative shortness ( in fast bowling terms ) to make the ball skid through at great pace , always difficult for a batsman to deal with . |
| 12 | Then a few moments later he bemoaned — at great length — how London was getting increasingly ‘ homogenized and pasteurized ’ , milking the issue for all it was worth . |
| 13 | Now we 're in the Vale of Eden and the line runs west of the river until it crosses the loop at Great Ormside and into Appleby by its eastern banks . |
| 14 | Apart from the strain on accommodation and feed stocks , having to keep dairy cattle on instead of selling them as planned means exceeding milk quota , possibly at great cost . |
| 15 | That was clearly demonstrated by the Ciba-Geigy trial run on David Lennox 's Billet 's Farm at Great Wigborough . |
| 16 | In slow motion at first , they picked up urgency until they were powering back and forth at great speed . |
| 17 | With school holidays in mind consider a visit to Van Hage 's garden centre at Great Amwell , near Ware in Hertfordshire , where the rest of the family can enjoy a great day out while you quietly lose yourself in one of the most impressive houseplant departments in the country . |
| 18 | The speech , an undeniable disappointment , had indeed been given in an unusually dull monotone and at great speed . |
| 19 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 20 | What I do regret , however , is that at great expense Johnnie Spencer filled a room at Althorp with paintings by that derivative Norfolk artist Edward Seago ( 1910–1974 ) . |
| 21 | Mrs Levine argues with some conviction and at great length that the break-up of Asquith 's romance with Venetia was centrally shattering to the prime minister , was directly responsible for his flaccid performance in the contemporaneous creation of the 1915 Coalition , and indirectly led to the decline of his grip and power and to the end of the Liberal party as a governing force . |
| 22 | But the government of Shamir insists on Israeli soldiers , at great risk , policing the area and protecting the Jewish settlers there — fanatical characters who , according to the soldiers , do not work . |
| 23 | Down the road at the church of St Mary the Virgin at Great Brington , scene of Lord Spencer 's funeral , the door was locked and tourists wandered round the churchyard in search of flowers and Spencer tombstones . |
| 24 | The gimmicks , meticulously planned at great expense , have failed : the ‘ Val Doonican ’ barstool and the ‘ Blue Bubble ’ make London look identical to Sheffield . |
| 25 | Sydney Robin , a former deputy chairman at Great Universal Stores and a director at packaging group Lin Pac , will take over as chairman and the search for a new chief executive will begin . |
| 26 | All are announced at great speed as if their names were actually French . |
| 27 | I pay the rent , the salaries , the insurance , this , that and the other , and meanwhile I 'm having to sell stuff at great losses . |
| 28 | The Catholic Church has now questioned — at great risk — the total control of the government over the minds of its citizens . |
| 29 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 30 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |