Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 2 | His division , having seen a great deal of dogged fighting on and around Ruweisat before the Alamein offensive , had been lightly engaged in the great action itself , though of course , their guns took part in the famous opening barrage . |
| 3 | Medical Services are steaming ahead having had a great year . |
| 4 | Of course , there have been historical fluctuations in revolutionary activity , as well as considerable variations between societies — with revolutionary parties having had a greater influence in France and Italy than in the rest of Western and Northern Europe or in North America — but the predominant style of working-class politics everywhere has been reformist , directed toward a gradual attrition of the unregulated market economy . |
| 5 | Having devoted the greater part of this year and last to extending its near hegemony in the market for low-end and mid-range Unix-based imaging solutions , promoting the GL graphics library as a de facto standard , and continuing to digest the business of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc , SGI has n't given much attention to its high-end . |
| 6 | Having spent a great deal of time on learning to hover in the ‘ safe base ’ position , you will reach a point where your carefully acquired reflexes begin to work against you . |
| 7 | The two officers outside , having spent a great deal of time and effort befriending the young boxer dogs Lila kept to ward off unwanted guests , scratched at the kitchen door in imitation of the dogs . |
| 8 | South Africa , for their part , dignified in defeat , can bask in the afterglow of their second coming , content in the knowledge of having bridged a great divide . |
| 9 | Yet systematic exclusion of women from higher education can only be seen as having forced the great majority of capable women out of the intellectual mainstream . |
| 10 | Even the perfectionists were impressed and admitted they came away with their tails between their legs having learnt a great lesson about false pride . |
| 11 | But Colin remained , in Emerson 's own account , very twitchy : winning meant a great deal to him , he was the arch-competitor and in a way he also wanted to take revenge on a track which had both hurt and humiliated him . |
| 12 | He became seriously ill with a blood infection after a routine prostate operation and soon after recovering faced a greater trauma when Meg died in 1986 . |