Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Cook has introduced a £1 deposit offer to try to capture a greater share of early summer holiday sales . |
| 2 | He finds the village roads with their mud ruts , gullies to cross and general hostility to smooth travel a great strain . |
| 3 | Wee Mick ‘ Mick ’ Harris on drums and Deathmangle Robochef Sythnocomputer Mk IV , the evil little man who revolutionised Napalm Death and went on to help make the greatest record in the world ever ie ‘ Guts Of A Virgin ’ by Painkiller PLUS Justin out of Godflesh and ex-Napalm Death and Nick ‘ is obsessed with pain and death ’ Bullen . |
| 4 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |
| 5 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 6 | Councillors may visit the Home Secretary later in the year to ask him to consider funding a greater proportion of the cost of the investigations , but chairman of the Police Committee , John Collins , warned they were unlikely to receive more than half of the sum . |
| 7 | The consequences of levelling it , providing a cover for perennial ryegrass and keeping people off — that is , changing it from land requiring little management to land requiring a great deal — needs to be very carefully assessed . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a little price to pay to see the great detective 's great detective at work , ’ said Antony . |
| 9 | Mary Leapor appears to have given a great deal of thought to Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 10 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
| 11 | Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance . |
| 12 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 13 | Rosenberg 's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry , but his tone is different : more impersonal , informal , ironic , and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon [ qq.v . ] . |
| 14 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 15 | Those communities which did not receive franchises seem to have suffered a greater degree of extortion , as their lords strove to recover some of the profits they were losing elsewhere . |
| 16 | Firstly , the proportion of British investment resources devoted to electricity was , if anything , low by international standards , so that , other things being equal , Britain at least would appear to have suffered no greater investment ‘ distortion ’ than elsewhere . |
| 17 | Feargal seems to have said a great deal . |
| 18 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 19 | The annual award is for the trainee deemed to have made the greatest contribution to the Trainee Solicitors Group . |
| 20 | In this there is a parallel , by no means fanciful , with the motor car — surely the only product that might challenge TV 's claim to have made the greatest difference to most people 's daily lives between 1945 and 1990 . |
| 21 | It may be a measure of the state of the property market these days when offices are said to have shown the greatest improvement in May with capital growth ‘ improving ’ to minus 6.4 per cent , combining with stable yields and rental values to give a total return for the year to date of 1.5 per cent , according to the latest Richard Ellis Scottish Monthly Index . |
| 22 | The Gothic , a more formidable opponent , might have been expected to have had a greater impact on the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 23 | This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 24 | He continued to hope that he and the king could work together and , strangely enough , he seems to have had a great deal of personal sympathy with the king . |
| 25 | But what seems to have played the greater part is that he was the local candidate , whereas his rival , Stasys Lozoraitis , was seen as an incomer . |
| 26 | This seemed to him , and to me , to have become a great issue of conscience . |
| 27 | Tales of art martyrdom with the deaths of Warhol , Basquiat and Mendieta following a roadmap sketched by van Gogh seem to have elicited the greatest interest in Hollywood . |
| 28 | It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering . |
| 29 | On the other hand , she comforted herself , the modern Dane , from what she had read and the little she had seen , appeared not to have inherited a great deal from his pillaging ancestors ! |
| 30 | It was impossible to please everybody , but Anselm 's conduct in these affairs must be judged to have caused the greatest amount of dissatisfaction to the largest number of people . |