Example sentences of "[verb] to a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In old males the tusks grow to a great length and are often broken , as if by combat , so there may be something in this theory . |
| 2 | The art of ‘ growing people ’ lies to a great degree in this stretching process . |
| 3 | THE city of Liverpool rose to a great occasion for the Battle of the Atlantic commemorations . |
| 4 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 5 | He was not only able to make most of his subjects feel proud of being Italians but also succeeded to a great extent in making them believe that his great dream of giving Italy an important place in the world , as important as that of Britain and France , could become a reality . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the deregulation of bus services has shifted demand away from traditional large buses towards smaller ones , the demand for which has been met to a great extent by importers . |
| 7 | Presently they came to a great waterfall . |
| 8 | The extent to which the ‘ potential ’ revealed by the child 's adult-supported activity is realised depends to a great extent on the way in which the adult interacts with the child . |
| 9 | How far this is possible depends to a great extent on the quality of the instructions accompanying the assessment procedure . |
| 10 | Mr Lee , 62 , is disabled by arthritis and depends to a great extent on an electric scooter to help him get about . |
| 11 | A few of these people react to a great variety of chemicals and foods , and are quite severely ill . |
| 12 | And it turned to a great marsh . |
| 13 | The Royal School of Church Music concentrates to a great extent on essentially simple music for small choirs with restricted resources . |
| 14 | Now , with complex machines themselves capable of performing routine jobs , education concentrates to a great extent on equipping young men and women for life , and living better and more creatively . |
| 15 | The Mid-Ulster dialects may therefore have preserved to a great extent an older general English vowel pattern , and they may help us to project knowledge of the present on the past . |
| 16 | The first formal talks between the USA and Vietnam on Cambodia were held at the UN on Aug. 6 , leading to a great deal of speculation about the lifting of the US-led trade embargo on Vietnam and eventual normalization of US-Vietnamese relations . |
| 17 | This leads to a great deal of emphasis being placed on ‘ pecking order ’ . |
| 18 | When a matter of serious public concern arises which leads to a great deal of media interest , someone in central office says , ’ We must show that something is being done . ’ |
| 19 | A minute later , Sikes appeared on the roof and the shouts from the crowd below swelled to a great roar . |
| 20 | Some of these new Jacobean pulpits were raised to a great height and topped by impressive sounding-boards in order both to emphasize the importance of the sermon and to make the preacher visible above the rows of high-backed pews . |
| 21 | In addition , there were fears that , if undertakings made during a takeover bid could be put aside subsequently , then there would be calls to replace the present takeover system , based to a great extent on a voluntary code of conduct and self-regulation , by a statutory system . |
| 22 | Like dreams , they are wish-fulfilments ; like dreams , they are based to a great extent on impressions of infantile experiences ; like dreams , they benefit by a certain degree of relaxation of censorship . |
| 23 | Milner never published a treatise on landscaping , but Henry Ernest 's book The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening ( 1890 ) was based to a great extent on his practice . |
| 24 | Because of the diffusion in the fingers , the temperature fields are not correspondingly affected to a great extent . |
| 25 | This capability never excludes either a sign or a speech coding and with increasing attention results are pointing to a great division in the effects , with deaf people showing greater use of sign-based coding when responses are made in sign . |
| 26 | The Methane produced on landfill sites is very explosive and can lead to severe illness if inhaled to a great extent . |
| 27 | We have , of course , stressed to our friends in the Baltic states that their membership of the CSCE — Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe — process and their aspirations to join the Council of Europe will naturally depend to a great extent upon their ability to meet international standards in such matters . |
| 28 | All cereals , fruits and vegetables contain some dietary fibre , but , just as the calorie content of different foods varies to a great degree , so does the fibre content of different plant foods . |
| 29 | He made the players feel they belonged to a great club , where even playing in the reserves was all part of an important and worthwhile enterprise . |
| 30 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |