Example sentences of "[conj] make a great [noun sg] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Surely people have better things to do than make a great song and dance about missing a dinner party . ’
5 I 've always thought that you get a bunch of songs together and if they 're good songs , you 're really lucky and if they all fit together and make a great album you 're really , really lucky .
6 Obviously the decrease in the amount of time spent with the first-born will have an effect but many parents are aware of this and make a great effort to give attention to the older child .
7 He was not suited to the world of bureaucracy and committees , but took to that job his generous and natural enthusiasm and made a great success of it .
8 With a squeak of pain and fear , and a look of real hate , it ran up the back of the chair and made a great jump onto the rope of the alarm bell .
9 In fact , although the Gaels were dispersed over many lands and made a great contribution in relation to their numbers , the mass of Scottish emigrants were from the lowlands , including Ayrshire .
10 Syl 's mother was highly displeased to see her and made a great to-do of fetching an extra cup , saucer and plate , worrying aloud that there would n't be enough for three of us to eat .
11 Modigliani knew how to adapt himself to his surroundings and made a great impression on the day he came to sketch Bakst .
12 Mrs Mantini did not upbraid her , but she pursed her tangerine lips and made a great thing of getting ready to go out in a hurry .
13 hike a herd of antelope , grazing indifferently while one of their number was being savaged by lions , they would go on , singing and clapping their hands and making a great noise against the darkness .
14 She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins .
15 And makes a great meal of that material .
16 He still maintains that he believes this , and makes a great show of sending off a manuscript to publishers down in London , trying to get them to publish a book expounding this view , but I know he 's just mischief-making again , and gets most of his pleasure from his acts of stunned disbelief and then righteous indignation when the manuscript is eventually returned .
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