Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |
| 2 | … He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what . |
| 3 | Remember those soldiers who stopped fighting the Great War to play football across the Flanders trenches and exchange sweeties ? |
| 4 | Anna stopped to examine the great plates of fungus growing out from a tree-stump . |
| 5 | What she needed was to sleep , and she tried to suppress the great mountain of self-pity that threatened to swamp her . |
| 6 | The elephant not only pipped dolphin and tiger to the post to emerge as overall winner , but also seemed to attract the greatest loyalty in voters . |
| 7 | Fen seemed to know a great deal about the area , and as they ate their sandwiches , served with a generous helping of salad , he talked continuously , so unlike his normal taciturn self that Robbie suspected he was steering clear of more personal and controversial topics . |
| 8 | Cameras in the Lords seemed to cause no great problems : perhaps some of their major debates were better attended and persistent viewers became aware of the varied quality of the contributions to debates . |
| 9 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 10 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 11 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 12 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 13 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 14 | He 'd gained a great deal of self-confidence . |
| 15 | Slowly , however , the Romans had to learn to govern Celts , and this became an even more pressing responsibility when Spain was organized in two provinces in 197 B.C. For three centuries the Romans were steadily engaged — among their multifarious commitments — in annexing territories which were partially or totally Celtic until they came to control the greater part of the Celtic-speaking world . |
| 16 | This architecture was adopted because it was simple to build , fitted the theoretical preconceptions of early computer scientists , and seemed to offer the greatest reliability . |
| 17 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 18 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 19 | Art had always tried to give back what he had gained in life , he felt grateful for what he felt he had to be given , some said he 'd achieved a great deal , but in his heart he felt fate had dealt him with him gently and you have to make the most of the lo of the card life deals you . |
| 20 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 21 | Yet of all the leaders of European Social Democracy , Lenin came to show the greatest sensitivity to the issues associated with the oppression of national minorities , and to the need for dominant nationalities to demonstrate their rejection of this oppression . |
| 22 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 23 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 24 | Lower status samurai , increasingly influential in domain or Bakufu bureaucracies , began to demand a greater say in the running of political affairs . |
| 25 | He had taken over her affairs again , picked them up as if he had never been away , and she could do nothing about it unless she began to create a great fuss . |
| 26 | Even before I had finished I began to experience a great feeling of freedom and relief . |
| 27 | Their concerns now became far more parochial and ethnic , and party considerations undoubtedly began to play a greater part . |
| 28 | It was not until the 1950s that the investment role of the services began to play a greater part in government debates while the 1960s are the period par excellence of the human capital theory and theorists . |
| 29 | Mark Twain , for example , who went to see the Great Exhibition of 1867 , wrote : ‘ ( I saw ) Napoleon in military uniform — long-bodied , short-legged man , fiercely moustached , old , wrinkled , with eyes half-closed and such a deep crafty scheming expression about them . ’ |
| 30 | Barthes managed to leave the great works of literature intact . |