Example sentences of "we [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative . |
| 2 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 3 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 4 | With the American Research and Development budget exceeding the whole of the British Defence vote , we had to become progressively more selective , concentrating on those projects in which success would give us the greatest measure of national independence . |
| 5 | The situation was brought about by a combination of factors , with two in particular causing us the greatest damage : the postponement of the Registers of Land that might have been subject to contaminative use , and the fall in construction activity . |
| 6 | ‘ In times of trial , ’ said the vicar , ‘ what brings us the greatest comfort ? ’ |
| 7 | Planning our future gives us a greater sense of internal control and increases self-esteem . |
| 8 | With the document being debated this week , we should beware of making branches accountable to its members , and increasing the numbers to one hundred gives us a greater base to work from than fifty . |
| 9 | Curiously enough , however , these are among the very people who tend to shy away from any kind of subjective description of what being a believer is like , and one frequently finds an empathic researcher who does not believe and may even be unsympathetic giving us a greater insight into what it is like to be a member of a particular religion ( see , for example , Cashmore , 1983 ; Judah , 1974 , Westley , 1983 or Lofland , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | This was especially so at Birmingham , where at 6.00 a.m. on Friday an ‘ End of Stage 2 ’ banner was erected and more than twenty insomniacs gave us a great breakfast and a marvellous reception that we will not forget , thanks to everyone who turned up , you certainly made us feel very welcome . |
| 11 | These books show us a great adventure that only a few people undertake and finish . |
| 12 | She writes , ‘ The children are thriving and our jobs give us a great sense of contribution and pleasure ! ’ |
| 13 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 14 | Most companies have a lackadaisical approach to recruitment — as if they 're doing us a great favour . ’ |
| 15 | I hope you will feel , as I increasingly felt during the research , that we who play today owe all those before us a great debt of gratitude . |
| 16 | ‘ This gives us a great chance to put things right . ’ |
| 17 | Boss Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ We have two home games after Southampton and it gives us a great chance to cement a top six place . ’ |
| 18 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |
| 19 | going to miss us a great opportunity to learn how to do it right |
| 20 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 21 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 22 | These experiments tell us a great deal about certain aspects of cognitive processes , particularly their relative timing or sequencing . |
| 23 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 24 | Likewise in archaeology AMS has enabled us to date samples as minute as individual seeds , which can tell us a great deal about the origins of agriculture and the domestication of cereals . |
| 25 | The many hours we have spent playing , seeing , hearing whilst making these films have taught us a great deal . |
| 26 | To use the analogy of the archaeological site once more , there are finds which can tell us a great deal . |
| 27 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 28 | These can tell us a great deal about past environments and climate during the time of their accumulation , but there are many ways by which small mammal accumulations occur in the natural world . |
| 29 | Among humans , even when we do not understand the words , the manner of expression still tells us a great deal of what is being communicated , especially at a basic level of feeling , emotion and facts of physical life . |
| 30 | In a way , it was n't a gamble as he was relatively young at 26 , and it was n't going to cost us a great deal . |