Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Will he bear it in mind that the law as it stands does great injustice and that many women are suffering life sentences that they should not be suffering ? |
2 | As the National Coal Board has continued to cut coal-mining employment there after the end of the strike , it has placed great emphasis upon the role of its job-creating subsidiary , NCB ( Enterprises ) in providing alternative jobs . |
3 | However , it has assumed great importance in the case law of the European Court in recent years for an additional reason , namely a struggle for power between the different European institutions both inter se and in relation to the Member States . |
4 | With it has come greater variety and choice , as well as convenience and speed cooking . |
5 | It has won greater favour in the US than in Britain where it is generally regarded as conceding too much to a particular , and somewhat incoherent , philosophical system . |
6 | Compiled by Tom Ferris , and published by Gill and McMillan ( In Ireland ) , it has attracted great interest and is reported to be selling well . |
7 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
8 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
9 | As part of this process it intends to give greater support to interdisciplinary proposals relating to the successful management of technical change and innovation . |