Example sentences of "[vb pp] a great [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 8 May 1429 the English abandoned the siege ; France , through Joan , had won a great moral victory . |
| 2 | Speculation as to the causes of queues has included a greater public awareness of the CAB , growing numbers in receipt of state benefits , unemployment and the availability of credit , the rising divorce rate , and a complex legislative programme that has affected clients detrimentally . |
| 3 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 4 | I done a great big chicken Sunday and it was a beauty . |
| 5 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 6 | He would have made a great dramatic actor . |
| 7 | and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent |
| 8 | ‘ She 's got a great wee figure — face like a tram smash though . ’ |
| 9 | She has got a great wee figure . |
| 10 | You 've got a great acting career ahead of you if you could only learn a few more tricks . ’ |
| 11 | Oh god they 've got a great big problem with Helena then |
| 12 | nine times , nine times out of ten the , the er door the back door or the front door has got a great big pane of glass on top of it . |
| 13 | You 've got a great big bottom ! |
| 14 | I 've got a great big rabbit in the freezer . |
| 15 | had he got a great big bottle ? |
| 16 | The Superdrug is right on the main and they 've got a they 've got a great big car park now at the back of the new gallery . |
| 17 | I 've got a oh , I 've got a great big chip machine . |
| 18 | No cos she 's got a great big garden like yours |
| 19 | I do n't know , you 've got a great big tin full of screws and nails and you , you still have to go and buy some |
| 20 | No , it 's got a great big steel girder at the back ! |
| 21 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 22 | In comparison with the last recession , recent rises in unemployment have had a greater relative impact on the South East of England . |
| 23 | With a check , the pianist has more control over the action of the piano and is offered a greater dynamic range . |
| 24 | It had been higher still , probably some three or four days earlier , for it had bitten a great red hole in the shelving bank , like a long wound in the smooth turf , and left the traces of its attack in half-dried puddles of silky clay and a litter of sodden leaves and bushes . |
| 25 | There are a considerable number of Labour Party members sitting in this Council Chamber who have given a greater financial contribution than they ever expected to make because was Treasurer . |
| 26 | MIRROR Group Newspapers has joined a great new venture to save readers money . |
| 27 | They have replaced a great Prime Minister with a mediocre one . |
| 28 | The factory workshop has become what Mao would have called a Great Political School . |
| 29 | We begin with Definition 1.4.1 Let a , b ε Z. An integer c ε Z is termed a greatest common divisor ( gcd ) or highest common factor ( hcf ) of a and b iff ( i ) c\a and c\b and ( ii ) if d\a and d\b then d\c . |
| 30 | A recently acquired photo-copier has proved a great time-saving boon for note taking . |