Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews . |
| 2 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 3 | [ 2 ] The dream vision convention was employed by the Middle English writers for such reasons ; [ 3 ] and it enjoyed great popularity . |
| 4 | It 's magic , of course , and it brings great benefit to us but it could also have terrible dangers in store for us — just like magic carpets ! |
| 5 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 6 | And it makes great reading … |
| 7 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 8 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 9 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 10 | It may be wondered why this doctrine is retained , but it has great advantages for both the major groups involved — the ministers and the civil servants . |
| 11 | Of course people must be advised carefully but it shows great lack of faith in human na in their abilities and a great arrogance on our part Mr Mayor if we fail to market the ideas simply because we do n't feel the populus are competent to understand it . |
| 12 | They admit that this method has not reached the precision required for routine application ( because a 20% false negative and almost 20% false positive rate is too high ) , but it shows great promise . |