Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crown applied to the Outer House of the Court of Session to quash the ruling , contending that the evidence it had tried to present had to be deemed relevant , even if not determinative or of very great weight . |
| 2 | The Government 's initiatives are many and varied and of very great importance . |
| 3 | If , however , the service is seen as a social institution , with aims which were , to a large extent , independent of market organization , then it is possible to see it as much more successful and of far greater significance . |
| 4 | He spoke keenly and with even greater friendliness than before . |
| 5 | But we 'll be able to assess the extent of the damage to the plane , with luck locate this ticking monster and with even greater luck try to free it . |
| 6 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 7 | Gift-giving can say " many more things and with much greater precision . |
| 8 | While the ideology is appropriate , it enables choices to be made on the basis of far less analysis and with much greater urgency , which certainly seems to be a move in the right direction , even if the choice made is not always the best one in the circumstances . |
| 9 | A plea of honest belief that a girl is above 16 is thus far more likely to be pleaded and with far greater success than a plea of honest belief in consent on a rape charge . |
| 10 | She even thought up ways in which — had he been at home — he might have managed the rescue more easily and with far greater certainty . |
| 11 | Overjoyed by the decision of the Lord Advocate not to take action against him , and thinking himself now immune , Waddell confessed again , and in much greater detail . |
| 12 | Symmetry and the relations between the elastic constants are discussed more fully in ( MP ) and in much greater detail in Hearmon ( 1961 ) and Lekhnitskii ( 1963 ) . |
| 13 | He came down from Cambridge in 1888 , and without either great enthusiasm or great reluctance went into the family business . |
| 14 | Women smokers are at just as much risk as men and at even greater risk if over the age of thirty-five and on the pill . |
| 15 | Much of what Gassendi says about the acquisition and formation of ideas became commonplace among later empiricists , being developed by Locke in more detail and at much greater length . |
| 16 | Excellent value , this beautiful cornflower blue dress looks great on its own — but for even greater impact try adding equally bright accessories . |
| 17 | An early version of the alternative doctrine polygeny , according to which the global category consists of a set of quite separate races of quite distinct historical origin and wholly different psychological attributes was advanced by Paracelsus in 1520 , but of much greater significance for the history of anthropology is the fact that , during a critical period between 1 850 and 1 870 , polygeny was the dominant orthodoxy in scientific circles throughout Europe and America . |
| 18 | The NCC survey found that amongst the chairbound , the reported problems were similar in nature to those of the wider sample , but of much greater intensity . |
| 19 | The frank accounts of two early love affairs , adding some notoriety to a political autobiography , make honest and sympathetic reading ; but of far greater substance is his analysis of British politics from Wilson to Major . |
| 20 | When Stan retired , he settled in Dornoch , the market town of Sutherland , close to excellent facilities , shopping and medical services ; but of far greater importance , within an easy hour 's drive of Scourie . |
| 21 | The first Prime Ministers were messenger boys , but with potentially great influence . |
| 22 | One is the elegant collection of hotels where , as the town 's name suggests , you can bathe for your health just as the Romans did 2,000 years ago , but in much greater comfort and with considerably more expert supervision . |
| 23 | More advanced expert system tools have a greater range of construction and testing facilities and allow for very sophisticated representation of problems , but at much greater investment cost and technical requirement . |
| 24 | ‘ The situation and the fertility of this bottom gave rise to reflections touching the present state of the labouring classes , who , in dungeon-like cellars , and bye allies , eke out a miserable existence , while with infinitely greater comfort to themselves , and honour and profit to the affluent , they might enjoy , in vast happiness , such peaceful and sequestered abodes as Gillerthwaite . ’ |