Example sentences of "and it [verb] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their three-year run of 17 Test wins equals the All Black record , and it takes no great clairvoyant skill to predict that this will be broken against Wales on 4 November and extended against Ireland a fortnight later . |
| 2 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |
| 3 | This disciplinary technique is designed to ensure that minor misdemeanours such as whining , pestering and tantrums have no reinforcing consequences , and it requires a great deal of control and consistency on your part . |
| 4 | It requires an analytical and reasonably numerate mind to develop cost-effective plans ; it requires a rapport with the creative group to achieve the best match of material and medium ; it requires aggressive negotiating skills in order to achieve the best possible positions and discounts , so as to make the maximum use of the client 's money ; and it requires a great attention to detail . |
| 5 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 6 | Shortly after my return , the Governor was to make a tour of Central Burma and it seemed a great opportunity for me to gauge conditions outside Rangoon , so I was invited to accompany him . |
| 7 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 8 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've already had a brief look at the Arms Park and it seems a great ground . ’ |
| 10 | Now there 's less room for thought and for feeling , and it seems a great tiredness is good for keeping people steady . |
| 11 | This is not one of the chronicler 's purple passages , but seems to be a sober report of the negotiations , and it matters a great deal . |
| 12 | It is very continental and it gives a great feel to the place . |
| 13 | What was it Dr Johnson said — ‘ Love is only one of many passions and it has no great influence on the sum of life ’ . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 15 | It 's an event which has a very special atmosphere and it makes a great day out for all the family . |
| 16 | Such explicitness would be a disaster in the novel , but it underlies the final text of the pub tirade like a geological substratum , and it reflects the great and growing importance of mystic suffering in Dostoevsky 's post-Siberian work . |