Example sentences of "and [vb past] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the years went by , the village of Portlethen grew , partly due to the oil industry , and became a greater commuter catchment area , and better transport links became vital . |
| 2 | Jack Edwards was Palace 's stocky , teak-tough full-back throughout the 1950s and became a great favourite here at Selhurst Park . |
| 3 | Charles Dickens was born in 1812 at Portsmouth and became a great success and was established as a very popular novelist , when his first novel , ‘ The Pickwick Papers ’ , was published as a book in 1837 . |
| 4 | It was then transformed into a castle by Countess Telfener at the turn of the century and became a great meeting place of the cultured and famous of the area , and a venue for duels . |
| 5 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 6 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 7 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 8 | He was not suited to the world of bureaucracy and committees , but took to that job his generous and natural enthusiasm and made a great success of it . |
| 9 | With a squeak of pain and fear , and a look of real hate , it ran up the back of the chair and made a great jump onto the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 10 | In fact , although the Gaels were dispersed over many lands and made a great contribution in relation to their numbers , the mass of Scottish emigrants were from the lowlands , including Ayrshire . |
| 11 | Syl 's mother was highly displeased to see her and made a great to-do of fetching an extra cup , saucer and plate , worrying aloud that there would n't be enough for three of us to eat . |
| 12 | Modigliani knew how to adapt himself to his surroundings and made a great impression on the day he came to sketch Bakst . |
| 13 | Mrs Mantini did not upbraid her , but she pursed her tangerine lips and made a great thing of getting ready to go out in a hurry . |
| 14 | Thus Northern Ireland enjoyed the same standard of services and endured no greater taxation than the rest of the UK . |
| 15 | They dominated the upper levels of government , controlled much commerce , and owned the great coffee and tea plantations . |
| 16 | The army mutiny of 1964 had created fears about the country 's stability and produced a greater intolerance of dissent . |
| 17 | It now covered a greater geographical area and involved a greater number of powerful States than ever before . |
| 18 | Then we , the half-mortals , withdrew to Andernesse and built a great spell-wall around us , to prevent the powers of the dark from entering . |
| 19 | Later canals , built by engineers such as Telford and Smeaton , had more changes of level and used a greater variety of structures ; locks , tunnels , embankments , cuttings and aqueducts which demanded large amounts of money and considerable engineering skill . |
| 20 | Once the research had established the physics of these losses — and provided a great deal of general information or the physics of plasmas — Culham returned to the development of toroidal systems . |
| 21 | The event was organised by Kate Arklay and Diane Bennett and attracted a great response from both knitters local to the area as well as those from further afield . |
| 22 | They were thus inspired to assume flower names , and attracted a great deal of attention and interest — precisely , in fact , what they had previously been denied . |
| 23 | In spite of attempts to stop their transmission , the programmes went out on CCTV , watched by millions and caused a great deal of lively , heated debate . |
| 24 | On leaving she joined the Repertory Company at Worthing and played a great deal on the repertory circuit . |
| 25 | November and received a great welcome so that he was able to advance towards London unopposed as any support for James II faded away . |
| 26 | The exhibition ‘ Santiago Calatrava ’ in both the Gallery and the newly refurbished Florence Hall attracted huge crowds during the Autumn and received a great deal of publicity . |
| 27 | He really had a hard time and suffered a great deal over the years from the wounds he received back then . |
| 28 | Certainly de Gaulle could not have returned to power if he had not stepped forward and risked a great deal in the process . |
| 29 | Athelstan smiled and acknowledged the great honour . |
| 30 | ‘ He has more experience than the other two , and showed a great deal of improvement last year . |