Example sentences of "[vb -s] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fig. 10 : The toroid exhibits greatest sensitivity at right angles to the pickup coil |
| 2 | Houghton places greatest stress upon achieving the maximum number of issues per book added to stock , rather than on achieving subject coverage on the shelves . |
| 3 | Predation has greatest impact on small mammal populations when they are low or in decline and less impact when populations are increasing . |
| 4 | It is the latter which has greatest popular appeal , rather akin to the following for ice dancing where choreography and style in tempo with the rhythm offer great opportunities for graceful interpretation . |
| 5 | It is this group which has greatest acquaintanceship with the facts and techniques of sex and sexuality and the least inhibition surrounding them . |
| 6 | In truth the work exhibits great variety , not only in the gestures and postures of the different figures , but in the composition of each subject , besides which it is very interesting to see the various costumes of those times and certain imitations and observations of Nature . |
| 7 | Again , however , a lot may depend on the covering play of the full-backs , Gary Stevens and Stuart Pearce , upon which England 's flat back-four system places great responsibility . |
| 8 | ‘ Handicap places great strains on parents and demands — many unmet — on society . |
| 9 | The White Paper places great emphasis on the fact that currently ‘ hospitals which offer the best VFM are not rewarded for doing so . |
| 10 | ‘ It would indicate to the rest of the world that Australia is not just a hillbilly , resource-rich country but a country that places great store on its scientific and technological expertise . ’ |
| 11 | Taylor , even more than Stewart , was a modest artisan as a player and , like the cricketer , places great emphasis on coaching . |
| 12 | Indeed , the Cadbury Committee reported that it ‘ places great emphasis on the importance of properly constituted audit committees in raising standards of corporate governance ’ , and recommends that all listed companies which have not already done so should establish effective audit committees by 1994 . |
| 13 | In the first place it places great stress on individual responsibility . |
| 14 | It emphasises lengthy and direct involvement with one 's subjects , sometimes over a period of years ; it places great stress on the recording of actual speech ; and it stresses the need to consider the apparently trivial , the story behind the story , the background that is normally omitted from conventional journalism . |
| 15 | Managing all these new systems and new options places great demands on executive ability . |
| 16 | Helping the teacher with this most important activity places great demands on the program designer from both the curriculum and the presentation viewpoint . |
| 17 | The leanings are towards the Chinese martial arts and Nanbudo places great stress on a training exercise , called Nanbu Taiso , that has a pronounced Chinese flavour , with its soft , fluid movements . |
| 18 | Taekwondo places great emphasis , of course , on flying kicks , and it is not unusual for two opponents to be in the air at the same time , one executing an attack and the other an airborne block or counter attack . |
| 19 | Techniques of destruction , however , are much more central to taekwondo , which places great emphasis on them . |
| 20 | Lord Justice Woolf places great emphasis on justice as procedural fairness . |
| 21 | As a method of appraisal it is considered particularly appropriate to the area of art in that it places great emphasis upon the validity of individual response and interpretation . |
| 22 | UK insurance legislation places great importance on the role of the Appointed Actuary to a long-term insurance company . |
| 23 | Current linguistic theory places great emphasis on the importance of the lexicon and projects are currently underway to manually ( supplemented by corpus processing ) produce large lexicons ( e.g. GENELEX ( Normier & Nossin , 1990 ) and MULTILEX ( McNaught , 1990 ) ) . |
| 24 | To this end the project places great emphasis upon the conduct of the survey work to the highest professional standards , upon achieving comparability with the previous studies in the series , and upon speedy deposit of the data set with the ESRC Data Archive at Essex . |
| 25 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 26 | ‘ The unedifying scramble for a free judge causes great embarrassment to solicitors vis-a-vis their clients . ’ |
| 27 | This state of affairs is an example of discrimination against the needs of older people ; it not only causes great suffering but unnecessary economic costs . |
| 28 | Yet , even if all of this causes great uncertainty among scientists , it is still a reasonable prediction that a decade ahead will see both environmental monitoring and prediction treated as an everyday need and activity in major organizations . |
| 29 | This concept of homoeopathic drug action can be used to estimate how often , in theory at least , a remedy may have to be repeated — an aspect of homoeopathic prescribing which causes great difficulty and debate . |
| 30 | Thigh : The schoolboy trick of giving someone a ‘ dead leg ’ — i.e. kneeing them in the side of the thigh — is very effective and causes great pain but usually no lasting injury . |