Example sentences of "[conj] with [adv] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke keenly and with even greater friendliness than before . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gift-giving can say " many more things and with much greater precision . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first Prime Ministers were messenger boys , but with potentially great influence . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |