Example sentences of "it [vb past] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 2 | It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews . |
| 3 | It laid great emphasis on value for money auditing and recommended that all health authorities establish value for money teams whose role would be to effect annual savings which could be used for improving services . |
| 4 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 5 | It made great strides , especially in America , where Hahnemann 's pupil Dr Constantine Hering finally settled . |
| 6 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 7 | The signing of the Free Trade Treaty of 1860 with Britain was as much an act of faith as of policy , for it created great opposition among French industrialists , but the faith was justified in that the economy , deprived of its protective barriers , continued to grow and expand . |
| 8 | More controversially , it proposed greater flexibility in the allocation of Ministry grant-aid to Responsible Bodies . |
| 9 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 10 | It caused great embarrassment . |
| 11 | There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by . |
| 12 | So I mean I think it 'd great Guide Friday you run around little flag in the air , I 've seen them in London and you can do that and and and people get so fit . |
| 13 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 14 | It should be realized that this change of tactics in the gilt-edged market is consistent with the objective of greater competitiveness since it allowed greater freedom for market forces to determine prices , and therefore yields , on government stock and close substitutes . |
| 15 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |
| 16 | [ 2 ] The dream vision convention was employed by the Middle English writers for such reasons ; [ 3 ] and it enjoyed great popularity . |
| 17 | IBM moved towards sales rather than renting ; it placed greater emphasis on software ; it invested massively in automated factories . |
| 18 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 19 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |
| 20 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 21 | At the same time it offered great entertainment for the onlookers . |
| 22 | Even so , it took great nerve and daring to ride that wind for such a distance and it is a fitting tribute to the bravery of the balloon pioneers , yet it will be seen that those men and women who followed Sadler into the skies display , in their own way , no less daring than he . |
| 23 | It introduced greater control over the advanced further education pool ( known as ‘ capping ’ ) . |
| 24 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |
| 25 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 26 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 27 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |
| 28 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 29 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 30 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |