Example sentences of "we [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suffer a great handicap in dealing with a Government who are obsessed with secrecy . |
| 2 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 3 | In Third World countries , even or especially those only slightly affected by western economies , almost all active men and their wives and children are engaged in trade ; if we imagine the corn and wool from local sources , the oil and wine from further off , the spices from the Far East and the slaves from heaven-knows-where who filled the fairs and markets of Europe in increasing quantities in the eleventh and twelfth centuries — above all , if we contemplate the great stone buildings and recall the quarries whence came the stone — we can see that there is an immense effort here largely hidden from our eyes . |
| 4 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 5 | We make a great partnership , Malcolm . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We mean a great deal to each other . ’ |
| 7 | We are also proud to be in the vanguard of training and safety initiatives for our Division as we place a great deal of importance on the safety aspects of working on a major construction site . |
| 8 | We place a great duty of trust on the Government . |
| 9 | If we imagine the Great Mother as a huge , strong tree , then the childless women are like the very tips of the branches ; they create the tracery of twigs , its outline , while the mothers form the wood that is still growing , their daughters pushing out beyond them into the space around . |
| 10 | When Labour founded the National Health Service we lifted a great burden from the shoulders of ordinary families who were set free from the financial perils of ill health . |
| 11 | Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ? |
| 12 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 13 | In the wider world we examine the great differences between countries like our own and the less fortunate poor world . |
| 14 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 15 | We owe a great debt of gratitude . ’ |
| 16 | He will not forget , particularly when we have the presidency next year , that Malta has applied for membership of the Community and that we owe a great debt of gratitude to the Maltese people . |
| 17 | Everything that 's been said about it , I would like to simply say , we owe a great debt of gratitude to our English friends for preserving our heritage of the past . |
| 18 | We owe a great deal to Ptolemy ; without him , we would know much less about ancient science than we actually do . |
| 19 | We owe a great deal to the United Nations Secretary-General and to Mr. Picco who have worked tirelessly with others to secure the release of the hostages . |
| 20 | We owe a great deal to Nick and we shall miss him . |
| 21 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 22 | But not only have we had the Great Fire of London we 've had other disasters in the country apart from disasters of the Great War and the er Second World War . |
| 23 | We remember the great names like Lyell or Darwin , and forget the supporting cast without which they could not have been stars : those in museums classifying their findings . |
| 24 | We listened to the representations of hon. Members from Northern Ireland , but , more particularly , we observed the great efficiency of the passport office . |
| 25 | Bayezid writes , ‘ We enjoyed the greatest pleasure in seeing how the severed heads of the Christian dukes rolled under the horses ’ hooves , and how many of them with tied hands , and others with broken legs , stood by . ’ |
| 26 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 27 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 28 | Understandably we hear a great deal about how increases in the very staples of life bite on those who can very often least afford those increases . |
| 29 | WE HEAR a great deal these days from the Labour Party about the shortcomings of the NHS . |
| 30 | We spent a great deal of time familiarizing ourselves with the music by playing it at subscription concerts and youth concerts . |