Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] [art] great " in BNC.

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1 And I remember a great orange moon floating on warm , richly scented evenings .
2 I do recall that visit , and I remember the great enthusiasm with which the governors , head teacher and staff were embarking on grant-maintained status .
3 And I mean a great thrill he was to us , he cried come here and see this and here was among all his little moles , he had a white one a pure white mole .
4 There are many classifications of theories of the global system and I claim no great privilege for the classification adopted here .
5 ‘ My lady , the prince and I share a great fondness … ’
6 And I have a great many debts to repay before my affairs are sorted out .
7 " You 'll forgive my rudeness , but I an naturally concerned for your welfare , not only because Tom Rooney requested it — and I have a great respect for Tom .
8 ‘ Lovejoy is fun and I have a great time doing it . ’
9 But I think Lorna and I have a great rapport so we 'll pull it off . ’
10 I think the regrettable thing about the parking in in the town is the way that some of the disabled slots at the surgery are taken by the cars of people who are perfectly able to walk from the car park , and I think the great problem we 're going to have is we 're going to rely on the public spiritedness of our fellow townspeople and there does seem to be a fair group of people who are extremely selfish when it comes to come to parking .
11 Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be .
12 I mean and lets face it you came home from school er I think we used to come home about half past four from school summertime and the first thing you come into the house and you get a great big thick slice of home made bread and jam which your mother had also made , also made .
13 You feel protected and at rest and you have a great desire for solitude .
14 Your orders are clear and sensible and without arrogance , and you have a great enthusiasm for everything you do . ’
15 And you see a great lot of the people stayed locally Well they had their wives up .
16 Such a council would benefit social work like nothing else : it is important that the public ( and the press ) knows there is regulatory control over a group of people who ( quite rightly ) hold substantial powers over some groups and who have a great influence over others .
17 Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ?
18 Er the Government find it absolutely unacceptable for people to wait on trolleys , once the decision for admission has been made er but My Lords sometimes it is necessary to wait er for observation purposes or sometimes for diagnostic treatments , er which actually have to take place in the A and E department er but My Lords it 's very interesting to see how similar hospitals vary , even within the same vicinity and we believe a great deal of this is due to poor management .
19 Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance .
20 Every one is different , everyone has its own pattern of possible rat runs and they take a great deal of er er
21 There 's a lot of adrenalin flowing , and erm they realise that there are pink bodies on the line , and they take a great deal of care in preparing the outfit before they go .
22 The point is that they think differently from us ; and we and they make a great team .
23 These creatures are the heavy armoured tanks of the insect world and they spend a great deal of their time on the ground , barging their way through the vegetable litter , scrabbling in the soil or gnawing into wood .
24 ‘ In Byrne , Sunderland have a player who could supply that sort of brilliance and they have a great Cup tradition , too .
25 on the right there , and they have a great rack full of plants standing there .
26 But I know a great deal about you .
27 ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’
28 But I believe the great majority of people get a high quality service from the staff of the Inland Revenue .
29 erm I found it self-indulgent , I suppose in the sense that perhaps it was too long and the film maker , I think , was reluctant to erm chop some of that material , but I think the great advantage that the film had was that it reached a very wide audience by being shown on BBC South .
30 But you have a great talent . ’
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