Example sentences of "great [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip Hughes , chairman of Logica Holdings and another member of the Alvey committee , said ‘ I am showing great patience at the moment … the matter is at Prime Ministerial level . |
| 2 | If , in Nabokov 's assertion , a writer may be a storyteller , a teacher , or an enchanter , and a great writer all three — Dr Johnson , even in this academic territory , long rendered prosaic and often inaccessible by other writers , was already a great writer at the age of thirty-five . |
| 3 | Unchanged , however , are the environs of the great waterfall at the head of the valley , a scene of awesome natural grandeur where , in a surround of towering limestone cliffs , Hardraw Beck plunges over the lip of a crag in a graceful unbroken leap of a hundred feet . |
| 4 | Between about 1922 and 1925 they sold Army Surplus tools and oddments of which there were a great deal at the end of World War I , obtainable at give away prices . |
| 5 | They do n't know a great deal at the moment about competitive strategies , marketing strategies , organisational analysis and all the other issues that keep chief executives awake at night . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was travelling round a great deal at the start in the West Country , then I went into headquarters which involved administration . ’ |
| 7 | Parliament met on January 8th , and that evening MacDonald addressed a great demonstration at the Albert Hall . |
| 8 | As they walked together , Ben looked at Alice , and she stared with great concentration at the cracks in the pavement . |
| 9 | In East Cornwall the lighting of the Summer solstice fire was ‘ from time immemorial ’ a feature of the Pelynt Fair at which the village mock Mayor would be treated with great ceremony at the village 's two Inns before being unceremoniously drenched with muddy water at Old Shute Pond . |
| 10 | He is a keen gardener , and expressed great pleasure at the choice of present . |
| 11 | Thus this work on the first century of Ottoman history bears the marks of the great disappointment at the collapse of Bayezid 's empire . |
| 12 | If you look across the BBC there is a great gap at the Controller level . |
| 13 | There is an anonymous criticism of great force at the end . ’ |
| 14 | It was a dramatised version of Major 's favourite spiel about himself , used to great effect at the parliamentary selection meeting for his present seat 16 years ago . |
| 15 | There was great scepticism at the time over Mr Dalglish 's explanation for his departure . |
| 16 | 1960 The Wesker Trilogy , The Kitchen , Chicken Soup and I 'm Talking About Jerusalem open to great acclaim at the Royal Court . |
| 17 | Kissin , aged 18 , came to prominence a couple of years ago when he appeared to great acclaim at the Berlin Festival . |
| 18 | Portsmouth are on a great run at the moment . |
| 19 | The ceiling of the Great Hall at the old Euston Station was deliberately modelled on that of the church of St Peter extra muros in Rome . |
| 20 | Held in the Great Hall at the hospital , clothes were supplied by Top Man and Top Shop and all models were friends and associates of the Headjogs team who , of course , did the hair . |
| 21 | Unofficial copies were doing great business at the Brighton Conservative Party Conference … and at three pounds each , they 're ten pounds cheaper than the official Government version . |
| 22 | Knocker had descended on the village just after the Great War at the tender age of twenty five . |
| 23 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Then a great feast at the Palace . |
| 25 | Had a very , very good over from Bill Tufnell there , it 's always a bit tricky when you come on to bowl and it 's turning and it 's a long day ahead and you , you 're expected to get hissed and you expect to get hissed , and you can get very impatient when they do n't come , but he 's got one now , he 's got , now he 's bowled well all morning now , he 's bowled almost for an hour , but he 's got that one wicket and he , that over was full of confidence , he tossed one up , misjudged the length and got into a bit of a tangle and then he bowled a quicker one which tried to cut , he then misjudged the pace and he could off nick it to the , a very , very good over and he 's bowling with , with great confidence at the moment . |
| 26 | The other great catchphrase at the time was ‘ swingin' , dodgy ’ made famous by comic Norman Vaughan the host of Sunday night 's Palladium Show . |
| 27 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 28 | In Belfast , Peter Kennedy 's wonderful musical ‘ The Widow or Bust ’ is still being performed with great gusto at the Arts Theatre by First Act Musical Company ; while the Group Theatre is once again open for business — the Belvoir Players are on stage in Sam Cree 's ‘ The Mating Season ’ until the weekend . |
| 29 | Dick expressed his great sorrow at the news of LF363 and said that he had a very soft spot for it , having ‘ cut his teeth ’ on that Hurricane during his days with BBMF . |
| 30 | This resistance has survived the death of the Great Enchanter at the hands of Koenigswald . |