Example sentences of "we [verb] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suffer a great handicap in dealing with a Government who are obsessed with secrecy . |
| 2 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 3 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 4 | We make a great partnership , Malcolm . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We mean a great deal to each other . ’ |
| 6 | We are also proud to be in the vanguard of training and safety initiatives for our Division as we place a great deal of importance on the safety aspects of working on a major construction site . |
| 7 | We place a great duty of trust on the Government . |
| 8 | When Labour founded the National Health Service we lifted a great burden from the shoulders of ordinary families who were set free from the financial perils of ill health . |
| 9 | Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ? |
| 10 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 11 | We owe a great debt of gratitude . ’ |
| 12 | He will not forget , particularly when we have the presidency next year , that Malta has applied for membership of the Community and that we owe a great debt of gratitude to the Maltese people . |
| 13 | Everything that 's been said about it , I would like to simply say , we owe a great debt of gratitude to our English friends for preserving our heritage of the past . |
| 14 | We owe a great deal to Ptolemy ; without him , we would know much less about ancient science than we actually do . |
| 15 | We owe a great deal to the United Nations Secretary-General and to Mr. Picco who have worked tirelessly with others to secure the release of the hostages . |
| 16 | We owe a great deal to Nick and we shall miss him . |
| 17 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 18 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 19 | Understandably we hear a great deal about how increases in the very staples of life bite on those who can very often least afford those increases . |
| 20 | WE HEAR a great deal these days from the Labour Party about the shortcomings of the NHS . |
| 21 | We spent a great deal of time familiarizing ourselves with the music by playing it at subscription concerts and youth concerts . |
| 22 | I think she is great , a nice person and a fine actress and we developed a great working relationship . |
| 23 | We know a great deal more about colour than any of the Impressionists . |
| 24 | As a result of the recent excavations , however , we know a great deal more about the 12th-century buildings than we did before . |
| 25 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 26 | Then a little later we find a great deal about romance . |
| 27 | Er the Government find it absolutely unacceptable for people to wait on trolleys , once the decision for admission has been made er but My Lords sometimes it is necessary to wait er for observation purposes or sometimes for diagnostic treatments , er which actually have to take place in the A and E department er but My Lords it 's very interesting to see how similar hospitals vary , even within the same vicinity and we believe a great deal of this is due to poor management . |
| 28 | When other people criticise or praise us we pay a great deal of attention to those descriptions and whether they are true or not , start to act them out . |
| 29 | ‘ We lost a great deal of money because of their tactics and need compensation , ’ said Mr Branson . |
| 30 | Jack 's Rake is a difficult scramble and at one or two points positively frightening as we climbed the final yards we felt a great sense of achievement . |