Example sentences of "found a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever Graham Greene intended by the use of the label ‘ entertainment ’ for certain of his novels , some of us have found a greater intuition and emotional force in The Man Within than in the more elaborate analysis of personality in The Heart of the Matter or A Burnt-Out Case . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 3 | Slightly surprised at a mess sergeant who did n't know all about every officer , Maxim was about to deny it when he realised that , by chance , he had found a great cover story . |
| 4 | Her mum says : ‘ As far as I am concerned , she has found a great lad . |
| 5 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 6 | And yet Charles Henstock had found a great deal of happiness in later life since his marriage to Dimity . |