Example sentences of "would [be] [prep] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But this would be at a great price for the many to deal with the problems of the few .
2 Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes .
3 It would be of no great help to pronounce the body of an object genuine if the interest , and hence the value , lay in the inscription .
4 In all fairness , they would be under a great deal of pressure .
5 I knew anything of Dad 's — anything — would be worth a great might hundred dollars .
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