Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere and hospitality of the Orkneys made a great impression on all our crews . |
| 2 | Then Wayne Bullimore wasted a great opportunity for Barnsley after he beat Gittens . |
| 3 | Thomas Arnold made a great deal out of the distinction between the concept of service and the pursuit of profit . |
| 4 | That 's one of the very important advantages of this election result , and personally I think the Social Democrats in Germany made a great mistake by being equivocal on this issue . |
| 5 | The fact that Marianne places a great deal of store by marriage but not its permanence comes as no surprise to Warren Colman . |
| 6 | As he came on , Rocky got a great reception from the crowd and a yellow card from the referee . |
| 7 | Thorfinn drew a great breath and roared , ‘ Albanaid ! ’ and was answered by a shout that drowned that of the Normans . |
| 8 | Abdu retained a great loyalty to his former mistress and spoke of her with reverence . |
| 9 | ‘ The Yamaha has a great sound , in either passive or active modes , and there are really no more controls than are necessary to change tones , so it 's fairly user-friendly . |
| 10 | Even a writer as far removed from the field covered in this book as John Le Carré owes a great deal , in all but his latest work , to the blueprint detective story . |
| 11 | The United States orchestrated the great increase in trade in order to take advantage of its overwhelming postwar strength . |
| 12 | Napoleon simplified the great patchwork quilt of minor German states and principalities , swallowed up a series of Free Cities , abolished a series of Church states and pushed the Germans into modern Europe , whether they liked it or not . |
| 13 | Those with kin in Ulthuan raised a great protest . |
| 14 | MacArthur emphasised the great importance of preventing the Chinese communists from gaining Taiwan ; this was vital to American policy in the region . |
| 15 | Rembrandt spent a great part of his life in Amsterdam and many of his works were painted in the city . |
| 16 | Arguably the most turbulent priest in the Anglo-Saxon experience , Wilfrid spent a great deal of his mature life entering into and returning from exiles imposed by English kings with whom he had quarrelled . |
| 17 | In the end it will need the writer of Jonah to recall the great truth which his people found , and which the Church still finds so hard to grasp , namely that God does indeed throw his largesse to all and sundry . |
| 18 | Lady Grubb knew a great deal about antiques and owned some beautiful pieces , but she topped up the genuine furnishings with reproduction Jacobean coffee tables and plastic cruets . |
| 19 | As she lay between the sheets , Hari felt a great restlessness grip her , she thought of Craig 's face so close to hers and she could barely breathe for the confused emotions that raced through her . |
| 20 | Afterwards , Thorfinn gave a great feast . |
| 21 | I 'm sure someone will tell us that Wetherall had a great game ( he must have — look at the result ! ) but surely Roecastle would have been a better bet ( or even Hodge ? ) . |
| 22 | One minute before the break Dundee had a great chance to equalise when Dodds broke through , but Maxwell got a hand to the attempted lob . |
| 23 | Pollerton 's Pride and Diane Clay have a great chance of defying a 7lb penalty in the Tyne Handicap Hurdle ( 3.05 ) . |
| 24 | In the early stages of his political career , Ian Paisley depended a great deal on the Free Presbyterian Church , largely because it was through his evangelistic work that he had become well known . |
| 25 | Tilda eyed the great pipe . |
| 26 | Last month , Mr Rocard caused a great frisson of excitement to run through the deeply-dejected Socialist ranks by calling for a political ‘ big bang ’ to allow the creation of a new centre left movement consisting of progressive-minded Communists , Ecologists , Centrists and what remained of the Socialists . |
| 27 | FELIPE was n't there and Maggie experienced a great deal of cowardly relief . |
| 28 | Peterborough became the great railway and engineering centre that Stamford might well have become . |
| 29 | The Warlord represents a great chieftain and leader of the Waaagh . |
| 30 | Russia has a great deal of natural resources . |