Example sentences of "was [adv] great [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the hundred fifty years in question , there was so great a diversity of views about nature that , on closer inspection , it becomes difficult to achieve a succinct characterization . |
| 2 | With the proliferation of puritan sects during the 1640s and 1650s , there was so great a range of extreme demands , from the nationalization of land to the emancipation of women , that it would be surprising if the natural philosophers had not begun to appear as moderates . |
| 3 | Yet it was so great a task that only Zeus , chief of the gods , could master it . |
| 4 | He would swing from a despairing belief that he was so great a sinner that it was too late to hope to go to Heaven , to elation as he overcame his great vice of swearing and started to read the Bible . |
| 5 | Marx 's son-in-law Edward Aveling was so great an enthusiast that his death was noted in Wisden , and nearer to our own times C.L.R. James attained guru status to West Indian followers of both Leon Trotsky and George Headley . |
| 6 | It was just great the way they took care of the old lady . |
| 7 | And if you think I 'm to be taken in that easy , Miss Jennifer , then think again ! " and muttering to himself that it was as great a pity to see women weep as geese go barefoot , he took Ann by the arm and went back into his house . |
| 8 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 9 | When he came to serve the Parliament , Charles I thought that he was as great a monopolist as those arraigned . |
| 10 | In his own sphere , Keynes was as great an adventurer as Lloyd George in his , and I doubt whether the old Liberalism or the new was entirely safe in his hands . |
| 11 | Defeat was too great a compliment to pay to society . |
| 12 | It was considered that there was too great a danger that the material would , once created , reach and affect a wider audience . |