Example sentences of "[noun sg] make a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich oral tradition of the pesme made a great impression on writers and folklorists during the Romantic revival of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review . |
| 3 | One of them slouched in her seat making a great show of what she thought of the event . |
| 4 | " El-ahrairah made a great business of examining the king . |
| 5 | Solid profits and a strong balance sheet help make a great company , but they may not be enough to make it admired . |
| 6 | AWAYDAZE : Buckler 's Hard , pictured here , and Beaulieu 's motor museum make a great day out |
| 7 | The woman looked up as the waiter made a great show of placing the glass with its golden contents beside her , and nodded his head towards Jay . |
| 8 | A simple full circular moon makes a great decoration , equally effective knitted or in embroidered on afterwards . |
| 9 | Had Edwin spent idle hours in this room while his daughter made a great parade of doing the housework and kept up a running vituperative commentary on the last person or event to incur her displeasure ? |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , he knuckled under , but the young man made a great show of being a soldier and the McLaggans went to cool him down . ’ |
| 11 | The encounter with the bull made a great impression on George Sadler who came to the rescue ; and he left a written account of it . |
| 12 | Although the list of 78 place-names may be far from complete , it shows that men and women from the county made a great contribution to the colonisation of many and varied parts of our planet . |
| 13 | Nevin makes a great run to the byline but his flick-back is missed in a goalmouth scramble by Malkin and John Aldridge before the keeper falls on the ball . |
| 14 | We had to change the design of the orchestra 's stage seating so that the cameras could get the proper angles on the players , and the new wooden structure made a great difference to the sound we were able to get in the hall . |
| 15 | Trees heard but barely seen in the darkness make a great rushing , crackling sound above me . |
| 16 | Psychology makes a great deal of this malleability of behaviour and has developed a technology designed to help people overcome behavioural difficulties and overcome habit problems . |
| 17 | Sir Samuel Hoare was very keen , and in 1937 he insisted on leaving the Admiralty in order to make a great feature of prison reform . |
| 18 | Nylon made a great impact on the textile industry when it was first discovered . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a celebration of the best of a woman when a designer makes a great dress , and it takes a certain intelligence to carry it off . |