Example sentences of "making a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would certainly be pleased to see them making a greater contribution , but only if it can be shown that there would be genuine environmental benefits in so doing . |
| 2 | We would certainly be pleased to see them making a greater contribution , but only if it can be shown that there would be genuine environmental benefits in so doing . |
| 3 | hike a herd of antelope , grazing indifferently while one of their number was being savaged by lions , they would go on , singing and clapping their hands and making a great noise against the darkness . |
| 4 | PRESENTED with the bill for the celebration-of-democracy party , President Bush and his legislators on Capitol Hill are searching , or making a great show of searching , their pockets . |
| 5 | Mr Skinner needed Clive , and yet he was punishing him , making a great show of his obsolescence . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not making a great song and dance about it , ’ she said in a softly dangerous voice and , with a hint of ostentation in her movements , stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee . |
| 7 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 8 | I feel that if I am not with her I will be making a great mistake , missing a real opportunity . |
| 9 | She was saved by the waiter shimmying up with the partridges , making a great show of how pink they were inside , pointing out the foie gras stuffing , the celeriac purée and the exquisitely dark and glistening Madeira sauce . |
| 10 | Mr Paul might be making a great deal of money and becoming famous , and she 'd heard they had asked him to accept an honorary doctorate , whatever good that might do . |
| 11 | She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins . |
| 12 | But unfortunately unless this restraint is very clear and firmly upheld children will rapidly learn , by making a great scene , particularly in public , that they can get their own way . |
| 13 | So , not only did Anderson 's Dungannon qualify , but they quickly went to the top of the Division Two table and are now making a great bid for promotion . |
| 14 | Some way away , Acorn was making a great business of licking Hawkbit 's throat , while Speedwell watched . |
| 15 | If consent were not successfully produced and reproduced , this could ultimately affect the condition and prospects of the economic base , not least by making a great deal of difference to the likely success of the revolutionary struggle . |
| 16 | They were making a great game of it . |
| 17 | ‘ I gather she 's making a great success of the English branch of the business . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ said Donna , making a great show of concern for him . |
| 19 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 20 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 21 | He was obviously making a great effort to cope with a load of premature responsibility . |
| 22 | Though I have been invited to come back to South Africa by friends both black and white , I wonder whether I am making a great mistake . |
| 23 | One of them slouched in her seat making a great show of what she thought of the event . |
| 24 | Although I listened with interest to the case adduced by the hon. Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) , the Chairman of the Procedure Committee which has made the recommendations , I still believe that the House would be making a great mistake to accept the motion , for it would add to the automatic nature , as it were , of debates and would play into the hands of the Government of the day , thereby strengthening their position over that of the House . |
| 25 | Oldfield Lewis making a great break again down the left . |
| 26 | ‘ If she acknowledges her fault , ’ said Yussuf , with the air of one making a great concession , ‘ then I will take her back . ’ |
| 27 | I was just making supper when that stupid eunuch came along making a great commotion . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah I do n't think they 're doing a great er I do n't think they 're making a great deal of money out of it themselves . |
| 29 | A shudder ran through her at the thought of meeting Luke Calder again and she turned away , making a great performance of picking up her handbag . |
| 30 | She turned away , making a great show of looking round the hallway , afraid that he would read what she was feeling from her expression . |