Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world .
2 He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ .
3 Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages .
4 It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews .
5 I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association .
6 [ 2 ] The dream vision convention was employed by the Middle English writers for such reasons ; [ 3 ] and it enjoyed great popularity .
7 Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ .
8 It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence .
9 But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed .
10 The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project .
11 Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere .
12 The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time .
13 It should be realized that this change of tactics in the gilt-edged market is consistent with the objective of greater competitiveness since it allowed greater freedom for market forces to determine prices , and therefore yields , on government stock and close substitutes .
14 Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done .
15 The signing of the Free Trade Treaty of 1860 with Britain was as much an act of faith as of policy , for it created great opposition among French industrialists , but the faith was justified in that the economy , deprived of its protective barriers , continued to grow and expand .
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