Example sentences of "[vb past] as [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill was eventually persuaded to drop this proposal to gain acceptance for what he regarded as the greater reform : that price should be independent of distance . |
| 2 | He saluted as the great pioneer of National Socialism not Friedrich Nietzsche nor Oswald Spengler , certainly not Hitler nor Mussolini , but the embattled genius of Thomas Carlyle . |
| 3 | However , it came as a great shock to Richard when , some time later , this friend fell into profanity and drunkenness . |
| 4 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 5 | It came as a great shock . |
| 6 | Sir , — Your report of the Whitehill Town Council 's comments on our — Oak Lodge and Chestnut Court — minibus appeal came as a great shock to our residents , and a reply must be made . |
| 7 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 8 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 9 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 10 | This came as a great shock to my parents , especially my mother . |
| 11 | In spite of this precaution , the speech came as a great shock to most of the officers in Algeria , indeed to the army as a whole . |
| 12 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 13 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 14 | Abdullah 's wife , Norjan and two daughters , were allowed to leave Iraq last month after the family was taken hostage while on a pilg pilgrimage ; she says the news of his release came as a great shock . |
| 15 | This debacle came as a great blow to the confident pilots of 249 , epitomised by its effect on Flg.Off . |
| 16 | Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel . |
| 17 | The fact that manipulation was possible even in the almost unadulterated democracy of the congress came as a great surprise to most delegates . |
| 18 | Gavin , who chose The Crusades , 1095–1154 , as his final specialist subject , said : ‘ It came as a great surprise to win . |
| 19 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 20 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 21 | That came as a great surprise to me I can tell you . |
| 22 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 23 | He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that . |
| 24 | ( News that funding for Isis , the complementary neutron source at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories , would stay fixed until 1997 came as a great relief to scientists in the UK . ) |
| 25 | The announcement came as no great surprise ; except in as much as it had been thought the family might hold back in the lifetime of Sir John . |
| 26 | It came as no great surprise to discover that , in the Department 's view , the new Committee ‘ could well function within the structure of the Technician Education Council ’ . |
| 27 | This served as a great incentive to spur her on . |
| 28 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 29 | Rome emerged as the greatest power in Italy when the Latins , for fear of the Celts , had to give up their independence about 350 B.C. The new kingdom of Macedonia under the firm hand of Antigonus Gonatas was the direct outcome of the Celtic invasion of Macedonia and Greece . |
| 30 | She crouched as the great flock screamed past her , wings humming ; some of them tangled in the trees , a few panicked as they shattered themselves against the stone of the fortress , or flew frantically in the confined space of the room ; but most of them circled above her head , then streamed away to the south , lost against the fading luminescence of the sky . |