Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I take great pride in the officer 's performance . ’ |
| 2 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But you get great support from head office . |
| 4 | The thought did not daunt her , but she had great need of a moment of silence , to take breath and consider how much she dared tell . |
| 5 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 6 | But one has greater resources of time … and contact with more people of all walks of life and those in the movement too . |
| 7 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |
| 8 | Both the monoamine oxidase inhibitors and the tricyclics were discovered empirically , but they aroused great hopes that the chemical disturbances in the brains of depressed people might at last be understood . |
| 9 | Not only did their numbers seem insignificant in the vast Russian countryside , not only were they rapidly overtaken by police arrests , but they found great difficulty in putting their ideas across to the peasantry . |
| 10 | The RAF 's aircraft replacement programmes tend to be more expensive than warship construction , but they have greater flexibility since the number of aircraft ordered in any one year can be varied without throwing the Air Department 's costings off balance . |
| 11 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
| 12 | In classifying them he followed Aristotle in considering as many characters as possible ; but he made great use of the ‘ principle of correlation ’ , the way in which all the parts of an animal work together . |
| 13 | His best effort was a second to Chief Celt at Towcester , when he was not fully wound up but he went great guns for Steve Smith-Eccles in a fast bit of work I watched on the Line gallop on Waterhall on Wednesday morning . |
| 14 | The man is an unreconstructed fascist chauvinist … but he has great charm . |
| 15 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 16 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 19 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 20 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They admit that this method has not reached the precision required for routine application ( because a 20% false negative and almost 20% false positive rate is too high ) , but it shows great promise . |