Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typical numbers are 0 , small positive integers , large positive integers , where ‘ large ’ means either a number of the exact width leng , or of width ( leng-1 ) or finally of greater width and so not capable of being printed correctly by putNumber . |
| 2 | I only pause to observe at this stage that the decision , although obviously of great importance , was not concerned with the terms upon which interim relief in the form of an interlocutory injunction should be granted . |
| 3 | To give you more room to relax , it is wider than before with greater leg room . |
| 4 | ‘ I must have gone to and fro in great concentration of spirit , always anxious to get on . ’ |
| 5 | I present them separately , in preference to an unbroken list , if only for greater ease of reading . |
| 6 | It was a finely worked piece of silver and obviously of great value ; but while she admired it and felt honoured to receive it , Sara could not honestly say that she enjoyed having its chain about her neck . |
| 7 | Indeed , the child was rattling and bubbling , coughing weakly and obviously in great discomfort . |
| 8 | Women consuming one unit of alcohol per day at the time of conception and during pregnancy have babies that are smaller and thus at greater risk of illness . |
| 9 | In slow motion at first , they picked up urgency until they were powering back and forth at great speed . |
| 10 | Although the cows will themselves be in better condition than in the early Spring , the effect on calf size of the high nutritional inputs of lush grass may produce high calf growth in utero , and hence to greater calving difficulties . |
| 11 | And often at great expense to ourselves . |
| 12 | I accept that there is a good case for including magistrates er trailing clouds of glory as it were from Tudor times when the Justice of the Peace was local government and then historically through their membership standing joint committees , but I still find it hard to accept , and here with great regret I do differ both from the Noble Lord , Lord and the Noble Viscount , Lord , I is the part of the central government er to make at least five appointments for each authority somewhere between two hundred or three hundred appointments direct ? |
| 13 | This is not to say that people will not give the support ( as we know they do and invariably at great sacrifice ) ; but it does suggest that care by the community is seen as a less attractive option than care from professionals , but with the support and involvement of the family . |
| 14 | And then with great deliberation he turns to GUIL . ) |
| 15 | and then with great rapidity after that the diploma so that she could be erm |
| 16 | The Danzigers went along with them — slowly at first and then with greater enthusiasm . |
| 17 | An elaborate structure of consultation has subsequently developed , in which major management decisions with implications for the staff , for example closure plans , service reductions or administrative reorganizations , are discussed at national level and then in greater detail in the regions and areas affected . |
| 18 | There has been great agitation about the fate of professional footballers a cause close to the heart of my Hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North , and indeed of great interest to all of us who are football fans . |
| 19 | We think the project is very practicable and potentially of great benefit to the community ; the re-cycling of the bridge adds a feature of significant historical interest . |
| 20 | Target profiling is undertaken initially as an overview and subsequently in greater detail , by which time ideally the following information and assessments should be provided about each possible target subject to availability : |
| 21 | The odds ratio shows that this was the case even after taking into account the fact that those living alone tended to be more disabled than elderly married couples , and therefore in greater need of such help . |
| 22 | Thailand , the only country in Asia now on the blackest of the Americans ' three blacklists , and therefore in greatest danger of sanctions , fired the official in charge of the enforcement of intellectual property rights on April 20th and launched a series of high-profile raids on counterfeiters . |
| 23 | The Saxon and Salian kings had in their household something approaching a school of clerical servants : never large , but always of great importance to them . |
| 24 | The balance was righted by Robert Blake 's biography , a book of great judgement and insight but still without great sympathy for the man . |
| 25 | Accustomed to the doctrine of ministerial responsibility , used to the idea that they are the repository of the collective wisdom and experience of their departments , accepting that they must handle outside agencies and pressure groups as well as the vagaries of the politicians and the press , they operate with caution but also with great confidence knowing that they alone are in possession of all the facts and that without their activity the whole machine would come to a halt . |
| 26 | The twin caricatures of the King hoarding the nation 's wealth and the Prince dissipating it had appeared in other Gillray etchings , but nowhere with greater effect than in these two productions of July 1792 . |