Example sentences of "tell [pron] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 2 | Ellwood asked a lot of questions ; Piper told him a great deal about how the universe was ordered by the laws of music . |
| 3 | Nick , who had feared a torridly emotional hour or so was relieved by this ; grateful , he had shared half a bottle of brandy with Martin and told him a great deal about the behaviour of adolescents in certain African tribes , a safe subject , and one he was apt to enlarge on when drunk . |
| 4 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 5 | The widow claimed to be particular about who she let to and told her a great deal about the other lodgers ; a musician and a German student , both women , and one man , a writer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've already told me a great many things , an alarming number of which have turned out not to be true . |
| 8 | Though the rumours have told us a great deal , he 's still far from well , he might need a heart bypass , he 's gon na have to retire form politics . |
| 9 | These experiments tell us a great deal about certain aspects of cognitive processes , particularly their relative timing or sequencing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The results tell us a great deal about the mechanistic basis of interfacial activation . |
| 12 | The questions which are asked about a still image tell us a great deal about the narrative interest in that image . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't tell me the great McKenna has never done so ! ’ |
| 14 | The clear lines leading the eye to the altar where the focus of the Christian life is celebrated in the Eucharistic Sacrifice tells you a great deal about Bishop Harris . |
| 15 | Properly set up and organised it can tell you a great deal about your business and in particular your customers . |
| 16 | It does n't tell you a great deal in that letter . |
| 17 | Any Cathedral tells one a great deal about those responsible for its erection . |
| 18 | She was in search of a closer knowledge of her great-uncle , and here were informed friends of his , one of them of long standing , who could surely tell her a great part of what she wanted to know . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This search for soft touches tells us a great deal about ourselves . |
| 21 | A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book , but I would agree with those commentators who argue that its persistence tells us a great deal more about the present than the past . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To use the analogy of the archaeological site once more , there are finds which can tell us a great deal . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This does not tell us a great deal . |
| 26 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 27 | The history and practice of press coverage of religion will tell us a great deal about the significance of the phenomenon of religion in contemporary social , political and cultural life , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Milton Keynes can tell us a great deal about late twentieth-century hopes and aims in a democratic car-owning society , quite apart from having the best range of modern domestic architecture in England . |
| 29 | These samples can tell us a great deal about the health of the patients . |
| 30 | Moreover , stateless societies are either small tribal societies , or small communities within a larger political system , and their political arrangements do not tell us a great deal that is relevant to the great majority of human societies . |