Example sentences of "great [noun sg] because [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Mazda the bankruptcy of the Sanko Steamship Co. in 1985 did not stir any great sympathy because the company management had a previous record of arrogance ‘ likened to that of a rowdy lone wolf refusing to line up with other shipping firms ’ ( FTW31/8/85 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a great shame because every year the prize-wining pumpkin is used in the seeds contest by a local pub and I 'd already said they could have it . ’ |
| 3 | According to Nino Panagia of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore : ‘ This is an achievement of great importance because the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud is an essential step to the calibration of the cosmological distance scale . ’ |
| 4 | In the foal , the disease is of no great importance because the mother 's antibodies can reach the foal only via the colostrum ( the first milk secreted by the mother after birth ) and not , as in humans , across the placenta . |
| 5 | But these are the sorts of things and I 'm not going to great detail because the training course does that , these are the things that they will blow you out on . |
| 6 | Simply measuring height can mean a communication problem between children and their parents , but as a university lecturer I face a much greater difficulty because the use of just one inadvertent ‘ old ’ term can easily lose a class of students . |
| 7 | All this implies greater volcanicity because the Earth was attempting to outgas radioactive heat at the spreading ridges , and so massive ‘ hot spots ’ appeared . |