Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] great a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their disciplinary record has slowly improved under Bobby Gould and they will point out , correctly , that West Ham played as great a part in the mayhem . |
| 2 | Both came near success , but , in the end , were defeated by those in the US Administration , who believed fervently in the preservation of the American monopoly , and who considered that sharing with Britain constituted too great a risk to American security . |
| 3 | Hunt is a big man and a strong one , and while at his peak , he stayed in remarkable physical condition for someone who put so great a strain on himself . |
| 4 | Now , without a rope to restrain him , he put as great a distance as possible between himself and the man . |
| 5 | From the other flank , Michael Foot thought plans for reform gave too great a power of patronage to the prime minister and mocked the very idea of a representative democracy . |
| 6 | The absence of the Bentham brothers and Trevor Robinson proved too great a hurdle against a competent home team that recovered from being 22–6 down after five minutes to take a 22–13 lead , then run the bench for a 77–49 victory . |
| 7 | As an undergraduate , says Walton , if he had a fault it was ‘ that he kept himself retired and at too great a distance with all his inferiors ; and his clothes seemed to prove that he put too great a value on his parts and parentage ’ . |
| 8 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 9 | She had too great a respect for the people to discount their inherited wisdom and instinctive worship of a power beyond themselves . |
| 10 | Misfortune was surmounted , and misfortune became too great a burden ; virtuous reputations were earned , and scandalous stories were recounted . |
| 11 | I think he enjoyed the bank , not merely because it was a change from teaching , but because the City exerted so great a fascination over him . |