Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be sufficient to remark that when the instrument was demonstrated to an assembly of interested parties in Oxford it met with great approval . |
| 2 | Originally at Udimore , it moved to Great Sowdens Wood , Brede , between 1840 and 1845 , then to Aldershaw , Beckley , between 1892 and 1896 . |
| 3 | Ooh who told me I think it came from Great Grandma and then told her . |
| 4 | In order to protect itself from the conflicting , volatile and diffuse demands of political groups , it retreated into greater bureaucratism . |
| 5 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 6 | It went into great detail about how much it would take to start the colliery again and said that it would cost millions of pounds . |
| 7 | The ‘ Community method ’ therefore was pragmatic , but it aimed at great things . |
| 8 | I had read that cancer of the lung was normally so virulent that if unchecked it spread with great rapidity . |