Example sentences of "[noun] [be] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIFE insurance endowment policies are a great way to build up a family nest egg for the future . |
| 2 | By any standards , the conifers are a great success . |
| 3 | In face-to-face meetings all the visual signals are a great aid to getting on the same wavelength with someone . |
| 4 | Simple natural remedies are a great antidote to today 's high tech , high pressure lifestyles . |
| 5 | Plants in pots and vases are a great feature of the garden in summer . |
| 6 | Nevertheless computers are a great help with credit management in preparing invoices , statements , follow-up letters and a wide range of analysis reports . |
| 7 | Those last two months were a great joy to me . " |
| 8 | Gazza 's a great lad |
| 9 | ‘ My friend Chatterton is a great daredevil you know . |
| 10 | [ New ] Wolverton has now been modernised and , apart from a pleasant public library and some flower beds in the narrow residential streets , I do not think that the result is a great amelioration . |
| 11 | ‘ It went much better for me on Sunday and the result is a great boost for everybody . ’ |
| 12 | If you have never touched a programming language in your life then QBasic is a great place to start — it is direct and to the point but it will not lead you into bad habits . |
| 13 | Cycling is a great way of getting around Somerset and exploring the countryside . |
| 14 | The tape 's a great success at first , |
| 15 | The Worsley Trail running from Brighstone Forest to the holiday town of Shanklin is a great way of getting to see the interior of the Isle of Wight . |
| 16 | Her 1.7m draft keel is a great boon for shoal draft cruising , and she is otherwise well equipped above and below deck , always well maintained , she is seriously for sale at a sensible price . |
| 17 | £192 OFF : Salmon fishing is a great bait |
| 18 | His poem about Mesmer is a great puzzle to me , as I can not tell with any certainty what is his attitude to Animal Magnetism , whether mocking or endorsing , and this is so with other of his work , so that often one is led to wonder whether there is not a great pother of talk about nothing much . |
| 19 | This figure is a great deal better than that for the consecutive spill method of handling overflows , and even chained records randomized to individual addresses show an advantage over consecutive spill . |
| 20 | A particularly puzzling aspect of the ammonoids is a great resemblance between external shell features that can be produced at different times by otherwise unrelated ammonoids . |
| 21 | OSF is a great success , HP alleges , because of the market ‘ pull ’ it has managed to generate for Motif , DCE and DME . |
| 22 | To suggest that the courts will ever completely rewrite a statute is a great exaggeration ; and even judges who accept the literal rule in words will depart from it when the circumstances press them hard enough . |
| 23 | For instance , among the beliefs in virtue of which I claim to know that Napoleon was a great soldier there may be one which is false , but which is so insignificant that my justification for believing that Napoleon was a great soldier would survive my changing my mind on that particular point . |
| 24 | For instance , among the beliefs in virtue of which I claim to know that Napoleon was a great soldier there may be one which is false , but which is so insignificant that my justification for believing that Napoleon was a great soldier would survive my changing my mind on that particular point . |
| 25 | But it was worth waiting , for ‘ Montini was a great talker of great subtlety , the very opposite of the earthy and outspoken Tardini ’ . |
| 26 | His loss was a great blow for Kaifu as with him fell the strategy of forging a close working relationship between the LDP , the DSP and Komeito . |
| 27 | The result was a great half break by the skipper , Adrian Davies was on hand for a chip to the line , and a charging Ford claimed the five points to the delight of the 14,000 capacity crowd . |
| 28 | William Hill was a great bookmaker , who had the courage to take enormous bets . |
| 29 | The earlier of these were probably intended to fill out the unused space at the end of the longer pieces ( Bach was a great paper magpie ) , while the later ones ( notably the prelude on ‘ Jesus Christus unser Heiland ’ ) were conceived on a much more generous scale . |
| 30 | But before he got into his aircraft to complete his detail he presented 20 piastres to Fagan , Fagan looked at the 20 piastres — and the 20 piastre piece was a great thing like a cartwheel , very large and bigger by far than an old-fashioned crown , some 2-2 ½ ″ wide , Fagan looked at this and the doctor said : I am sorry about the shit I blew over everybody — there is my fine , " Fagan looked at it and said " Doe , the fine was only 10 piastres . " |