Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | does anybody remember particularly what they were given , or make a great deal about it , of a meal of it , unless you 've given them something absolutely outstanding like a fur coat , I remember the fur coat I was given in |
| 2 | Was it a greater crime to let her drown or to cross the great divide to the women 's section to rescue her ? |
| 3 | It states it shall be the duty of local authorities , there i- , and on that point I , you know , in this area , I do n't think that Wiltshire County Council has done , or spent a great deal of money in actually furthering those . |
| 4 | Selecting locations is another time-consuming and difficult process that can spend or save a great deal of money , given the number of people involved and costs of travel , hotels , refreshments and all the other incidentals . |
| 5 | PRESENTED with the bill for the celebration-of-democracy party , President Bush and his legislators on Capitol Hill are searching , or making a great show of searching , their pockets . |
| 6 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
| 7 | ‘ Whether you 've enjoyed quick service in a restaurant or had a great hair-do , giving a cash token lets people know their talents are n't taken for granted . ’ |
| 8 | At least 17 women compositors emigrated permanently ( 12 ) or temporarily ( 5 ) in the years immediately preceding or following the Great War . |
| 9 | From the tone of your report you would seem to suggest that there is cause for celebration here , but surely this railgun has only one purpose , to kill people , or have the great minds of physics and engineering got something more ethical planned ? |
| 10 | And he was the only lecturer who would admit that he 'd changed his mind about something since the last lecture , and that made a great impression on me . |
| 11 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 12 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 13 | ‘ Surely people have better things to do than make a great song and dance about missing a dinner party . ’ |
| 14 | If this is the case then society and organisations , far from being pluralist in nature , are , in fact , elitist so that on any given issue there may be a small group that exercises a great deal of power . |
| 15 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 16 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
| 17 | Throughout the tournament it was John 's neat handiwork … that helped the great showman to the title . |
| 18 | Our proposal is a modest one : we are trying to implement a more just system rather than tackling a great injustice . |
| 19 | Erm , amendment that need to be made to this words housing waiting list , we in fact no longer have a standard housing waiting list but have a housing needs register erm that says a great deal about the system that we have is that it 's judged on people 's housing need and not on their income . |
| 20 | It is the most active and most geologically interesting — a test-bed , an ever-mobile demonstration of all the major forces and processes that shape the great structures of the planet . |
| 21 | Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity . |
| 22 | But a mile or so away from Panama City , linked to it by a discreet network of roads and side-streets that become suddenly cleaner , neater , less tropic , less obviously corrupted , is a city that bears the great conquistadore 's family name . |
| 23 | At the centre of Piaget 's theory lie a number of basic concepts that owe a great deal to his interest in biology . |
| 24 | For 25 minutes , fabulous figures and floats that owe a great deal to fibre optics and underlit , liquid-nitrogen smoke glide past in a dazzle of light and changing colour . |
| 25 | Feeding little and often with loose feed sounds like a simple exercise that requires no great thought or expertise . |
| 26 | Brindley died in Staffordshire in 1772 , and although he did not live to see the realization of his dream , his was the unlettered genius that set the great age of canal-building in motion . |
| 27 | The crucial point is that having a great sound is one thing , but being a good subject for an article may be something else entirely . |
| 28 | ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’ |
| 29 | Apart from one major attack on a convoy off Kent in 1706 the French were content to rely on their privateers to menace English shipping and it was the achievements of her army that formed the great glory of Anne 's reign . |
| 30 | The figure in the painting spoke of the human spirit and looked out at the world with a serene timelessness , and eyes that knew the great gift of being a master and an artist . |