Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who died while protecting the Lithuanian parliament from Soviet tanks and the ‘ black beret ’ crack troops were hardly imagining a great role for Lithuania in world councils : they just wanted their country to run its own affairs without foreign domination , which they have now achieved . |
| 2 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 3 | Rhinos were also considered a great trophy from a day 's hunting . |
| 4 | He was obviously making a great effort to cope with a load of premature responsibility . |
| 5 | Niklaus had just swarmed up Resurrection , taking a bit of a flyer in the process , being into the British way of things , and was obviously having a great day out . |
| 6 | She was suddenly feeling a great deal safer . |
| 7 | Her brain was still having a great deal of difficulty coping with what her eyes were telling her . |
| 8 | The dark , blue-black serpentine which had been popular before was still used a great deal , but now new materials were tried out as well — alabaster , gypsum , limestone , marble and breccia — and some extremely hard rocks like porphyry . |
| 9 | Then Gabriel went to visit the second brother , who was now running a great farm , with dairies , and butcheries where they sold meat , and tanneries where they sold boots and saddles and all kinds of things made out of leather . |
| 10 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |