Example sentences of "it [verb] great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It laid great emphasis on value for money auditing and recommended that all health authorities establish value for money teams whose role would be to effect annual savings which could be used for improving services . |
| 2 | It offers great potential for services for gypsy and traveller children , whose circumstances are often affected by intense and extensive discrimination . |
| 3 | And at £85 it offers great value for money . |
| 4 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 5 | The signing of the Free Trade Treaty of 1860 with Britain was as much an act of faith as of policy , for it created great opposition among French industrialists , but the faith was justified in that the economy , deprived of its protective barriers , continued to grow and expand . |
| 6 | It may be wondered why this doctrine is retained , but it has great advantages for both the major groups involved — the ministers and the civil servants . |
| 7 | Although this regulation of tortious liability is not of itself a contractual issue , there are some situations where it has great importance for business contracts , for instance in the area of pre-contract negotiations . |
| 8 | We have heard many more such stories , evidence of a continuing brotherly regard for chimpanzees among the older members of the local community ; it causes great concern to them , and to us , that many of the younger members take no interest in these traditions . |
| 9 | In the first place it places great stress on individual responsibility . |
| 10 | It emphasises lengthy and direct involvement with one 's subjects , sometimes over a period of years ; it places great stress on the recording of actual speech ; and it stresses the need to consider the apparently trivial , the story behind the story , the background that is normally omitted from conventional journalism . |
| 11 | As a method of appraisal it is considered particularly appropriate to the area of art in that it places great emphasis upon the validity of individual response and interpretation . |
| 12 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Of course people must be advised carefully but it shows great lack of faith in human na in their abilities and a great arrogance on our part Mr Mayor if we fail to market the ideas simply because we do n't feel the populus are competent to understand it . |
| 15 | It requires great skill on the part of the teacher to match tasks to attainment levels and in reality it will prove unusual starting from a core to have a task which only addresses one level within one target . |
| 16 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 17 | It takes great concentration on their part , and for weeks ahead their Teacher Phyl Bailey carefully guides them through rehearsals . |
| 18 | Taken as a whole , the 1950s can be seen as a decade in which everyone had to work very hard just to keep the District on an even keel : it reflects great credit on all concerned that , in statistical terms , the decline of the early fifties was halted so that ultimately an expansionist phase could begin . |
| 19 | Mr Ellis went on to say that sales had held up very well in the worst year for the retail trade that he had seen ‘ It reflects great credit on the sales team ’ he said . |
| 20 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 21 | At the same time it offered great entertainment for the onlookers . |
| 22 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 23 | It gives great gloss to wild wet looks and is great value at only £1.09 for a 125ml tube . |
| 24 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |
| 25 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 26 | It 's magic , of course , and it brings great benefit to us but it could also have terrible dangers in store for us — just like magic carpets ! |
| 27 | It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it . |