Example sentences of "it [vb past] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became a great treasure because there was n't much money to spare in those days . |
| 2 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 3 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 4 | It involved a great deal of counting , sorting , matching , etc . |
| 5 | It occasioned a great deal of comment and controversy at the time . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it created a great stir in the Danish art world . |
| 7 | ‘ The tour of the WISE bus into a number of our schools was very successful and there can be no doubt that it created a great interest amongst staff , girls and parents ’ |
| 8 | I 'm afraid that when I dropped out of sight it created a great deal of concern in the village . |
| 9 | Thence it described a great arc through Fenny Compton and Byfield to rejoin the other road at Cold Higham ( Crawford ) . |
| 10 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 11 | She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money . |
| 12 | The spider affair as it was called went all over the school before the day was out , it caused a great deal of laughter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There was nothing valuable in it , though it seemed a great deal in the eyes of these people . ’ |
| 15 | As an exercise , it was valuable for Glass even if it aroused a great deal of hostility . |
| 16 | It included a great quantity of local pottery , classified into 14 types , stamped mortaria of two makers ( the two stamps ROA and PETA are not helpful in reconstructing the actual names of these potters ) , and a remarkable carinated bowl with stamped decoration , all of which were surprisingly omitted from the 1936 report . |
| 17 | The question was innocent but it brought a great guffaw from the youth and he answered , ‘ Ben Smith , Jones , or Robinson . ’ |
| 18 | It contained a great hall but was considerably altered following afire in 1871 . |
| 19 | As well as medical preparations , it contained a great deal of comparative anatomy , including fossils . |
| 20 | But if sound set back filmmaking style by several years , it offered a great boom for the British film industry . |
| 21 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 22 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 23 | Yet it represented a great advance on Populorum Progressio ( 1967 ) , which showed that he was still listening and learning . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 26 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 27 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 28 | It took a great deal of effort not to wriggle about as much as I normally did , but I feared him panicking more than the physical discomfort . |
| 29 | It took a great deal of acting skill not to show her vast irritation . |
| 30 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |