Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to a great " in BNC.

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1 The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics .
2 Throughout 1954 and 1955 the setting up of ITV led to a great exodus of talent from the BBC , attracted , no doubt , by the higher rates of pay advertised by the commercial stations .
3 THE city of Liverpool rose to a great occasion for the Battle of the Atlantic commemorations .
4 As we know erm Canning had to a great extent welcomed the end of the congress system .
5 Opener Robert Barber fell to a great Kennedy catch at mid-on , Bolton — who missed the league match through county duties — had Elliott for a duck and Maldon were 2 for 2 .
6 ‘ The SS went to a great deal of trouble on the public relations side : there was background music , lorries ready to transport women , children and the infirm , while prisoners were at hand to act as porters ; in short an atmosphere of relative welcome greeted the Jews when they got out of the cattle trucks … ’
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