Example sentences of "also a great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There was also a great spirit of unity among the workers and , although the statements were coloured with rhetoric , it was emphasized that at Wolverhampton , ‘ The whole of the workers stood firm and were prepared to fight to the bitter end ’ and that at Hull there was ‘ Alarm — fear — despair — a victorious army disarmed and handed over to its enemies . ’ |
2 | It was also a great relief to recognize Dr Lloyd , who Mrs Reed called in for her servants ( she always called a specialist for herself and the children ) . |
3 | He was also a great friend of ACHILLES , whom he taught music and hunting ; according to ancient myth , Chiron taught Achilles to run so swiftly by setting him to chase wild deer and eat their raw flesh . |
4 | He is also a great friend of the Festival , and it will be a delight to have him with us again . |
5 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
6 | ‘ I did n't think I could face the idea of someone else having the job , ’ she laughs , ‘ but it was also a great opportunity for me . ’ |
7 | Birch was also a great believer in the corrosion-resistant qualities of cast-iron columns , and this confidence was fully vindicated by time . |
8 | I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it . |
9 | In considering the issues of where you are , or where you would like to be , there is also a great tendency to think that the grass is always greener somewhere else . |
10 | The coach is also a great help in controlling anxiety , and the right kind of pep talk can work wonders . |
11 | At a reception for Benn at the British Embassy , several of the Romanian ministers turned up including ‘ Dragonescu , the Minister of Electricity , who is also a great computer king , a tall , angular , intellectual man . |
12 | There was also a great variation in the size of local authorities of the same status . |
13 | He was also a great supporter of both the Medics ' and Dentists ' Football Club and the Medical Students ' Rugby Club . |
14 | There were photographs and postcard and letters pinned up and pasted on tables and walls , and amongst these more adult decorations , there was also a great quantity of carefully arranged and ancient toys , of a precise and coloured charm ; there was a doll 's house , a glass jar of marbles , a toy iron on a small brass stand , a heap of rag dolls , a row of painted wooden Russian dolls , a nest of coloured eggs , a tower of bricks , a weather house , a huge pendant snowstorm globe containing a small palace and a small forest with small ferny trees . |
15 | No one has yet made full use of the massive archival material available , which includes not just the twenty-nine volumes of Keynes ' published Collected Writings , but also a great quantity of unpublished personal and economic papers , many of them only recently available for inspection . |
16 | Another first ascent on Bow Shaped Slab ( Cloggy ) is also a great memory . |
17 | Redhead , however , is also a great country-lover and he writes eloquently on this theme for the magazine Country Living . |
18 | I have a great admiration for Mr. Duncan McNeill , and also a great approbation for the concept of trust status for hospitals . |
19 | It helps if it is small , and it is also a great advantage if it can easily reach the next tree without having to climb down to the ground and then climb up again . |
20 | There is also a great advantage in regenerating large columes of previously cooked food on high throughout operations only as the demand occurs . |
21 | He is also a great man . |
22 | ‘ Fash is also a great man to have around in the dressing room . |
23 | It was also a great day out for the parents , teachers and helpers . |
24 | David 's step-brother , Terry , was also a great influence on David in the early years . |
25 | There is also a great benefit in allowing children into pubs from an early age . |
26 | There 's also a great selection of restaurants to choose from , including Chinese , English , Indian and French cuisine . |
27 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
28 | I have a very observant Afrikaans friend , a medical doctor , also a great admirer of Mr.X , who maintains that all top-class golfers walk on the insides of their feet , thus enabling them to maintain the right shin post without effort , as against the bandy-legged player , who finds it very difficult to keep his right knee firm on the backswing . |
29 | But he was also a great admirer of Michael Banks , who was his dream casting for the role , and , unless one introduced very tortuous psychopathology , for him to murder the star was utterly unlikely . |
30 | It is also a great time-saver when the same message has to be relayed to a group of people , for example , the times of meetings . |