Example sentences of "they [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’ |
2 | He needed an able team of allies during his rise , but they became the greatest threat to his predominance after the mid-1970s . |
3 | But , debarred from owning land as they were , they became the great craftsmen of these regions , as carpenters , builders , and weavers . |
4 | ‘ We neither blame the Duke nor Mr. Burn , but we think they made a great mistake in accepting their nomination ’ . |
5 | When the Japanese counter-attacked on other occasions they made a great hullabaloo , often shouting to each other as they came forward . |
6 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
7 | In 1987 Graham Gooch joined the company , and together they made a great team , leading to Gooch 's innings of 333 in the Lord 's Test match in 1990 . |
8 | They made a great show of prayers but treated people wrongly . |
9 | They made a great fuss of him , because he was new and had come from Por Tanssie which had a bad reputation . |
10 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
11 | THE FIRST round of the new National County Under-25s Two Fours competition sent Essex to Coton , on the outskirts of Cambridge , where they produced a great effort to win by three shots against Cambridgeshire . |
12 | They make a great clamour ; they take their time , just making noise . |
13 | The point is that they think differently from us ; and we and they make a great team . |
14 | Very few ‘ raw ’ diaries are published these days unless , as in the case of wartime victims of concentration camps , they make the greatest impact by the very nature of their rawness and contemporaneity . |
15 | It is well known that when parents talk to young children they repeat a great deal of what the child says ( and , of course , also expand it ) . |
16 | They shouted a great deal , and waved their arms . |
17 | They built a great number of cottages for their workpeople ; a Unitarian chapel for their spiritual welfare , a school for their children , and a mansion for themselves . |
18 | They place a great deal of importance on the power of positive thought . |
19 | They preserve a great number of preludes and dances ( many by ‘ N.C. ’ , supposedly Nicolaus Cracoviensis , ‘ Mikolaj z Krakowa ’ ) , organ service-music , transcriptions of Josquin and his contemporaries , chansons by Janequin ( ‘ La Guerre' of course ) , Sermisy , Sandrin , a little Senfl ( including ‘ Ave rosa ’ ) , but only three or four German songs by minor composers — though the monk of Cracow does include a transcription of Mahu 's ‘ Ein' feste Burg ’ which had appeared in Rhaw 's Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge only four years before . |
20 | The next question is , could they enjoy the great outdoors without actually camping ? |
21 | Overall , they found a greater tendency to underpricing . |
22 | They used the great rivers of northern and western France to penetrate far into the heart of Charles 's kingdom . |
23 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
24 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
25 | There was the cold ring of iron , as they levered the great doors shut and the rhythmic clanking of machinery as the steam from the furnaces was forced along the great pipes . |
26 | And J. D. O'Connor liked my articles — he said they created a great deal of excitement and interest ; I wrote under the name of Vesta . |
27 | And for centuries to come , they hope the Great Tower will remain one of the great sights and sounds of Oxford . |
28 | They comprised a great hall of two storeys open to the roof timbers , solar , storage accommodation and bedchambers . |
29 | They are not designed basically to protect animals and , as has already been mentioned , they depend a great deal upon the use of the animal . |
30 | They cause no great problem to anybody , and what ought to happen is that the gipsies and certainly the tinkers ought to be encouraged to buy sites and develop them and police them themselves . |