Example sentences of "[vb past] a great [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What started out as a potential disaster provided a great opportunity to create something really different . |
| 2 | Carver looked at him , caught his fleeting expression , made a great effort to cool it . |
| 3 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 4 | Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship . |
| 5 | Ten years later Darius 's son Xerxes led a great invasion to conquer Greece for the empire . |
| 6 | THE FIRST round of the new National County Under-25s Two Fours competition sent Essex to Coton , on the outskirts of Cambridge , where they produced a great effort to win by three shots against Cambridgeshire . |
| 7 | We can now account moreover for the observation made by Poutsma ( 1923 : 41 ) that a perfect infinitive is always preceded by to when used with a verb of perception : ( 50 ) Mr Lorry observed a great change to have come over the doctor ( and not *observed a great change have come over the doctor ) . |
| 8 | However the United Kingdom courts have recently insisted upon more evidentiary support for discretionary decisions , and exhibited a greater willingness to assess the cogency of the reasoning therein . |
| 9 | Eddie Thorning and I saw a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor , and make money by gaining competitive advantage through an oil-and-parts offer to workshops and petrol stations . ’ |
| 10 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 11 | The Hydro Board were playing tunes with their dams , and did a great deal to lessen the impact by holding back as much water as they could . |
| 12 | Many of the colleges with which CNAA committees and visiting parties were dealing — including the new polytechnics — had traditions of autocratic management which the DES did a great deal to undermine with the notes for guidance it issued in connection with the proposed designation of polytechnics . |
| 13 | Charles did a great deal to assist the lot of the Lombardian peasantry whose lives had fared badly during the conflicts that succeeded the Renaissance . |
| 14 | Clapham was a committed negotiator , and Kerr did a great deal to assuage the anxieties that existed in the NCDAD and its institutions . |
| 15 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
| 16 | It was said when he first arrived at Wigan that he had a great act to follow after Lowe but that becomes even more relevant this time for fellow Aussie John Dorahy who takes over the reins . |
| 17 | City had a great chance to go ahead after 33 minutes but Carlyle , with only the keeper to beat , shot weakly at a grateful Henderson . |
| 18 | One minute before the break Dundee had a great chance to equalise when Dodds broke through , but Maxwell got a hand to the attempted lob . |
| 19 | She had a great temptation to rest against him , but he stood with a swift movement that was all anger and sarcasm . |
| 20 | Kings wanted to build up reserves of bullion for the very practical reason that it would enable them to recruit armies , and it was also true that gold and silver had a great power to dazzle men 's minds . |
| 21 | She could not be to Pen as Minnie was to Miss Arabel since there was a mother in between but she had a great desire to see her former charge treat her as freely when he reached manhood . |
| 22 | You had a great desire to do something . |
| 23 | I was extremely competitive and had a great desire to win . |
| 24 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 25 | Oh yeah , thought Henry grimly as he passed 4021a , his coffee threshing around dangerously in its plastic beaker , and Henry Farr had a great deal to say to Ian McEwan as well . |
| 26 | They always had a great deal to say , for they knew one another so well . |
| 27 | How to define the topic for discussion is obviously a difficult one , as Nash admitted in his own study , which had ostensibly a broader subject for its title , but which also had a great deal to say about jokes . |
| 28 | When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about . |
| 29 | Susan did n't get up that day , so Breeze had a great deal to do . |
| 30 | The brother-sister marriages of Roman Egypt probably had a great deal to do with the preservation of property and nothing to do with the preservation of genes ( Hopkins , 1980 ) . |