Example sentences of "great [noun sg] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Mazda the bankruptcy of the Sanko Steamship Co. in 1985 did not stir any great sympathy because the company management had a previous record of arrogance ‘ likened to that of a rowdy lone wolf refusing to line up with other shipping firms ’ ( FTW31/8/85 ) . |
| 2 | They have the Fair in a great field where the sun beats down and the people look at me , and they see me very clearly , and they look away , and some of the children laugh and some of them cry , but they are all afraid . |
| 3 | It is of course a great advantage if the organization starts , so to speak , with this in place and in our case I believe our scientific heritage and background lead naturally to a wish to hear , dissect and learn from others ' views . |
| 4 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |
| 5 | Erm sometimes er I have n't mentioned much about the gender of the therapist but sometimes it can help a great deal if the therapist 's the same gender as the same person who 's undergoing therapy and it also helps if it 's er sometimes you ca n't very easily with some therapists , y'know it sometimes erm helps if it 's somebody you can trust and confide in and stuff like that and obviously , having met various psychiatrists and clinical psychologists , er quite a number of them are not people I 'd particularly like to talk about about being abused as a child . |
| 6 | There was great disappointment when the Government decided to choose Glasgow as the preferred option , in spite of the deal Chester had put together . |
| 7 | The new experience everyone enjoyed was eating bananas and it was a great disappointment when the supply stopped short at the beginning of the war . |
| 8 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 9 | Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective . |
| 10 | If you are starting completely from scratch , however , and have the cash available , I recommend that you purchase a basic helicopter radio which can still be used with a fixed pitch machine if required , but will be of great help if a variable ( collective ) pitch machine is purchased . |
| 11 | Meanwhile it would be of great help if the accuracy of death certification could be improved , possibly through audit . |
| 12 | Photographs are also of great benefit when a repudiation of liability is being discussed with third party solicitors . |
| 13 | It would be a great shame if the charity folded , after all the efforts of so many kind-hearted people . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a great shame because every year the prize-wining pumpkin is used in the seeds contest by a local pub and I 'd already said they could have it . ’ |
| 15 | According to Nino Panagia of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore : ‘ This is an achievement of great importance because the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud is an essential step to the calibration of the cosmological distance scale . ’ |
| 16 | In the foal , the disease is of no great importance because the mother 's antibodies can reach the foal only via the colostrum ( the first milk secreted by the mother after birth ) and not , as in humans , across the placenta . |
| 17 | He threw up one arm and gave a great cry as the gun went off . |
| 18 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 19 | The chancel belonging to the rector may not be in the same style as the nave maintained by the parishioners , reflecting differences in wealth or involvement Even in those churches where the rector was a monastery , there may be a variety of interest displayed , from great ostentation where the monastery has been concerned to maintain its property , to neglect where the church is on a distant or poor estate , or where the monastery itself was poor . |
| 20 | It is great fun when the water temperature is thirty degrees Celsius . |
| 21 | However I had no wish to disappoint everyone concerned by postponing by visit to the Palace and , with a lot of help from friends and family I finally made it to London on the great day albeit a shadow of my former self . |
| 22 | Mr Jan Sekera , director of Prague 's Stredoceska Galerie , one of the city 's leading contemporary galleries , said of the new tax law , ‘ I 'm afraid that there will be no great movement as the relief is limited to only two per cent . |
| 23 | As Bates says : ‘ It 's always a great feeling when the team does well . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it was a great relief when the band stood up , plugged in , and launched into some Muddy Waters . |
| 25 | Proved gas reserves are largely concentrated in the three major oil producing countries , Algeria , Libya and Nigeria and , for these countries , offer great potential if an infrastructure can be developed . |
| 26 | Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts . |
| 27 | After over eight years of rule by the strongly pro-US Jamaica Labour Party , a period marked by great hardship as the economy was forcibly ‘ restructured ’ , the February 1989 election returned Michael Manley 's People 's National Party . |
| 28 | But these are the sorts of things and I 'm not going to great detail because the training course does that , these are the things that they will blow you out on . |