Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The thought did not daunt her , but she had great need of a moment of silence , to take breath and consider how much she dared tell . |
2 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
3 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |
4 | Both the monoamine oxidase inhibitors and the tricyclics were discovered empirically , but they aroused great hopes that the chemical disturbances in the brains of depressed people might at last be understood . |
5 | Not only did their numbers seem insignificant in the vast Russian countryside , not only were they rapidly overtaken by police arrests , but they found great difficulty in putting their ideas across to the peasantry . |
6 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
7 | In classifying them he followed Aristotle in considering as many characters as possible ; but he made great use of the ‘ principle of correlation ’ , the way in which all the parts of an animal work together . |
8 | His best effort was a second to Chief Celt at Towcester , when he was not fully wound up but he went great guns for Steve Smith-Eccles in a fast bit of work I watched on the Line gallop on Waterhall on Wednesday morning . |
9 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
10 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
11 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
12 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
13 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |