Example sentences of "a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | With luck , a few years will bring a greatest hits compilation . |
| 2 | But the month-by-month figures ( Figure 2 ) do show a very sharp drop in temperatures very soon after the eruption — totally disagreeing with the forecast of a greatest influence on the hemispheric environment 18 months to two years after the dust veil is blown into the stratosphere . |
| 3 | Pop : The First 20 Hits ( Mute ) is exactly that — a greatest hits album worthy of the name , confirming Andy and Vince as lightweight pop maestros . |
| 4 | Gary is celebrating with a new single Through The Years , a greatest hits album and tour . |
| 5 | BIZARRE INC 's debut LP is excellent , but so it should be , since it 's effectively a greatest hits . |
| 6 | We begin with Definition 1.4.1 Let a , b ε Z. An integer c ε Z is termed a greatest common divisor ( gcd ) or highest common factor ( hcf ) of a and b iff ( i ) c\a and c\b and ( ii ) if d\a and d\b then d\c . |
| 7 | The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value . |
| 8 | And that 's a greatest skill in itself . |
| 9 | In this way , with a little money but much commitment , a great deal can be done . ’ |
| 10 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 11 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 12 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 13 | There is a great deal of individual suffering with deaths in almost every family in some areas . |
| 14 | The Romanian Government , WHO and UNICEF have taken a great interest in our education programme and are actively looking for ways to use it as a model for Health Education in Romania . |
| 15 | So vivid a response by a great poet must inspire respect and possibly a curiosity to see if the reader can match the experience . |
| 16 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 17 | The equilibrium so consummately achieved results from the counterpoise of a great number of directions . |
| 18 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 19 | Because of their frontality African figure sculptures are commonly photographed or drawn full face , concealing the fact that the sculptor has paid a great deal of attention to the profile view . |
| 20 | Inland , a great plain . |
| 21 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 22 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 23 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 24 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 25 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
| 26 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
| 27 | A great experience , an adventure of the heart . |
| 28 | In Take a girl like you a great sentence falls like the dew from heaven during one of the scenes in Amis when a terminally drunk man endures a sexual turmoil and fiasco , is stunned by a stunning but not very nice girl . |
| 29 | His shiksas and replicas , hostilities and escapes , have taken part in a great game of long duration , and he can be said to be reviewing the state of play . |
| 30 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |