Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such consultation was undertaken through a Great Council , from which evolved what was to be recognized as a parlement or Parliament . |
| 2 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 3 | Predominantly Australian Cattle Dog , with a touch of Kelpie to lengthen his stride and narrow his frame , Henry goes through a great range of stunts . |
| 4 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 5 | Every year a number of trailers are rolled over on our roads and trailer accidents account for a great deal of glider repairs . |
| 6 | Tourists from other countries account for a great deal of revenue to some large hotels and therefore a watchful eye is kept on the figure , so that advertising campaigns can be planned to attract foreign visitors . |
| 7 | Stimulating because new ideas , creativity , brain-storming sessions and the prospects of winning make for a great feeling of esprit de corps . |
| 8 | Blunt saw nothing ahead but he shot off a dozen rounds on impulse as he plunged through a great hole . |
| 9 | Permission must be obtained to travel by car along the private road in Glen Farrar and , if granted , should be regarded as a great privilege for there is loveliness all the way to its terminus at Loch Monar , now a reservoir . |
| 10 | MR Lamont is not widely regarded as a great Chancellor . |
| 11 | What may be regarded as a great bureaucracy has in fact great achievements to its credit . |
| 12 | This was regarded as a great boon by Evangelicals , who dreaded sudden death without the benefit of the clergy and their prayers . |
| 13 | Before the stories of Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman , two educated deaf and blind ladies in America , became known , deaf and blind people were regarded as a great curiosity . |
| 14 | Does he , is he regarded as a great figure , or |
| 15 | This wag regarded as a great joke . |
| 16 | It was regarded as a great advance when third-class passenger expresses were introduced on the East India Railway . |
| 17 | The Edinburgh journeymen compositors had succeeded in 1803 in their appeal to the courts to sanction a document known as the Interlocutor — an extraordinarily complicated scale of piece-work rates — which was regarded as a great victory . |
| 18 | Such a change of rule would act as a great deterrent to those guilty of such offences on a regular basis . |
| 19 | Did your experience at drama school come as a great surprise to you ? |
| 20 | Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts . |
| 21 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 22 | Her death had come as a great shock to him . |
| 23 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
| 24 | A great deal could be done , even in the present climate of opinion , and example counts for a great deal . |
| 25 | The mosaic of the cut looks like a great distribution of attractive holes . |
| 26 | It looks like a great deal to ask of our underpaid and undersupported teachers . |
| 27 | Otherwise I if it 's appropriate I 'll say it looks like a great newsletter . |
| 28 | This is Kingsley Black and again he looks to use Collimore 's pace and he moved into a great position there Collimore . |
| 29 | Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 . |
| 30 | As the trilobites spread through the seas of the world , they diversified into a great number of species . |