Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you look at past efforts to launch soccer here in the States it has not met with a great deal of viewing support , ’ said Bill Sherman , a vice president with the McCann Ericson advertising agency . |
| 2 | However , since the project was designed for small samples , which would encourage certain types of analysis rather than others , the shortfall in the Ipswich control area was not seen as a great disadvantage . |
| 3 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 4 | Lack of appropriate data systems , lack of involvement of clinicians and a basically top-down , finance-led approach , did not result in a great deal of success for this initiative . |
| 5 | The Shah was not known as a great listener — not as least to Iranians . |
| 6 | His sport and study schedule , coupled with his natural diffidence , perhaps explains why he is not remembered as a great socialiser . |
| 7 | It has certainly not led to a greater family stability . |
| 8 | Discovering Afghanistan Festival of Afghan culture , billed as London 's first of its kind , which may or may not come as a great surprise . |
| 9 | The move to merge did not come as a great surprise to the shareholders of either company . |
| 10 | At the end of the day , an individual observer could conclude that the various costs of regulation exceeded the benefits and that therefore regulation should be abandoned , but such a conclusion , if warranted at all , is not warranted without a great deal of analysis . |
| 11 | One can not generalize about a greater receptivity among Protestant clergy toward the new cosmology . |
| 12 | Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 . |
| 13 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |