Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ That 's not my style , Ian — you should realise that I set great store by not creating ‘ scenes ’ ; by not making those that I esteem suffer any unnecessary discomfort , whether it be social , physical , or otherwise . ’ |
| 2 | Here also is a new Member , Nick Hawkins ( Member for Blackpool South and a leading member of the Bow Group ) : ‘ From my involvement in European matters , I believe that I should say that I have great misgivings about the decision I will ultimately make tonight to support the Government and to support the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | I may say that I have great confidence in Doctor Maingay 's judgement in such matters . |
| 4 | If I do not get the chance later in my response to answer the comments of the hon. Member for Caernarfon ( Mr. Wigley ) on students with special needs in further education , I say now that I attach great importance to those students . |
| 5 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
| 6 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 7 | And if it is the manner in which I address her which concerns you , let me tell you that she derives great enjoyment from such acerbic exchanges . |
| 8 | We must remember that we are a great nation and that we have great spirit . |
| 9 | It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible . |
| 10 | The things she said were always in disagreement , with the teacher or another member of the class , and cost her so much , in terms of physical anguish , that they carried great conviction . |
| 11 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 12 | The Seebohm Committee , responsible for the broad shape of modern social services departments , declared in 1968 that they attached great importance to research : |
| 13 | It is said that they place great strains on family life , and people feel they would be unable to cope with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 14 | Although inspectors control the evaluation , they argue that they place great importance on discussions with teachers which increase the chance of changes taking place . |
| 15 | The main problem for instrumental Marxist accounts is that they have great difficulty in explaining the eclecticism and indeterminacy of events in the world under a single reductionist or economist explanation which relates all actions by the state to the desires and power capabilities of a ruling class based on economic ownership . |
| 16 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 17 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 18 | I know that he feels great distress at what is happening as a result of Government inaction on this matter . |
| 19 | Eliot weighed in by saying that he had great hopes of a young man — ‘ rather a spotty youth ’ — called Rayner Heppenstall . |
| 20 | Not that he anticipated great trouble — most of the fell people were there to entertain themselves in ways which might appear rough and sound loud but came from characters largely tolerant , polite , gentle , qualities widely commented on , coming from the ease of great and graceful physical strength , the pacific , solitudinous nature of the daily lives , and a long experience of continuing community . |
| 21 | He was a born teacher and soon found that he gained great fulfillment by teaching and training others for the profession for which he was so ably fitted . |
| 22 | That he has great charm and a strong intellect there is no doubt but the coming review of public expenditure will test him to the full . |
| 23 | A clear example of this may be seen in the learner driver who grips the steering wheel so tightly with one hand that he has great difficulty in moving the wheel with the other . |
| 24 | Parke , aged 17 , had already showed us with two wins in the previous two days that he has great ability . |