Example sentences of "it [prep] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 2 | Some took it as a great laugh ; others as a brave attempt to champion a little-known music ; and others just hated it . |
| 3 | That while recognising that the men have had a real grievance in that some firms have employed an unfair proportion of young girls at apprentice wages , or nearly so , we women regard it as a great injustice that one of the main skilled industries open to Edinburgh women should be closed against them . |
| 4 | She also thought of it as a great household , in which her son could find a favoured place . |
| 5 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 6 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 7 | We call it now , the Battle of Britain , and think of it as a great victory . |
| 8 | Toby , next morning , was inclined to regard it as a great victory . |
| 9 | ‘ I actually saw it as a great challenge . |
| 10 | I felt it as a great loss because even after her retirement she remained a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to young singers . |
| 11 | Barry Humphries ' cartoon hero Barry McKenzie made cracks about Château Chunder , the star wine from down under , fondly describing it as a great emetic . |
| 12 | Of the Paternoster Square development , what he wanted to see , he said , was ‘ a roofscape that gives the impression that St Paul 's is floating above it like a great ship in the sea ’ . |
| 13 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 14 | On the following day after the Christians had taken possession of the town , the Cid entered it with a great company , and he ascended the highest tower of the wall , and beheld all the city ; and the Moors came unto him , and kissed his hand , saying he was welcome . |
| 15 | When they discovered this famous Plowden sentence about the importance of the child at the top of this chapter , they welcomed it with a great sigh of relief . |
| 16 | He homed to the nameless grave like a pigeon , and fell on his knees beside it with a great sob of thankfulness . |
| 17 | NEXT time Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Messiaen 's Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum they should do it in a great cathedral . |
| 18 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 20 | A tribe living near the shore might wonder at this evidence of sorting or arrangement in the world , and might develop a myth to account for it , perhaps attributing it to a Great Spirit in the sky with a tidy mind and a sense of order . |