Example sentences of "[noun] at great " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems certain that the blend of characteristics at Great Witcombe is attributable to a mosaicist who had worked on the St. Nicholas Street mosaic . |
| 2 | and er police rang them up Tuesday , cos er they found car at Great Alton , they went to pick it up , somebody had nicked it again |
| 3 | Wolfgang told Leopold that he was obliged to write the piece at great speed , and that the four soloists were ‘ completely in love with it ’ . |
| 4 | Thus great areas of central Spain were condemned to the extensive farming of cereals for low yields at great expense of labour . |
| 5 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |
| 6 | William Wright of Charing Cross 's 1634 monument to Lady Deane at Great Maplestead , Essex , has a more exaggerated movement than that of Donne , and the hands are now completely liberated from the shroud as she emerges from the black marble recess of the tomb . |
| 7 | Michael Armstrong , 28 , of Welfare Crescent , Newbiggin-by Sea , Northumberland , died almost instantly when his van was involved in a crash at Great Stainton , near Sedgefield on Wednesday , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 8 | His home and farmland , upwards of 300 acres , could be submerged along with some 50 other homes if a reservoir at Great Bradley , near Newmarket , is built . |
| 9 | The Kings Arms pub at Great Stainton is to go ahead with alterations to a small , historic bar . |
| 10 | Cecil had expressed his own attitude at great length and less clarity a year or two before this . |
| 11 | Now we 're in the Vale of Eden and the line runs west of the river until it crosses the loop at Great Ormside and into Appleby by its eastern banks . |
| 12 | In Edie 's company Minton had drinks with H. E. Bates in 1949 , at his home at Great Chart , in connection with the illustrations he was designing for Bates 's The Country Heart , a revised compilation of his two previous books , O More than Happy Countryman and The Heart of the Country . |
| 13 | The prosecution said that drinkers at the Volunteer Inn at Great Somerford saw Mantack go into a phone box with a large tape recorder . |
| 14 | Ron Treptow , an experienced canoeist , was shooting the rapids at Great Langsale Beck in the Lake District when his canoe became stuck in rocks . |
| 15 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
| 16 | We have explained the point at great length to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside , but he keeps making his claim . |
| 17 | Sandie , who captains the Ipswich Ladies ' squad , headed an England Mixed team in a friendly match against international All-Stars at Great Cornard Upper School 's sports centre . |
| 18 | So , on the whole I am cautiously in favour of machines inspecting passports at great speed , a scheme experimentally working at Heathrow . |
| 19 | Thus when population and prices rose in the eighteenth century the tenant foreros sublet at great profits to themselves since their payments to the foristas had long ceased to represent an economic rent . |
| 20 | Thus , in Overend & Gurney Co v Gibb , for example , it made no difference that the directors , who acquired for the company an insolvent business at great expense , were ‘ men of the world , and accustomed to business , and accustomed to speculation , and [ had ] a knowledge of business ’ . |
| 21 | Buildings at Great Chesterford , Margidunum and Camerton might have served as mansiones , although it should be stressed that separate bathhouses are absent , while it is difficult to identify the stables . |
| 22 | The 1,013-hectare site at Great Haldon , near Exeter , is part of a larger 2,833-hectare forest which also supports many other birds of prey , including sparrowhawks , common buzzards , goshawks , kites and osprey . |
| 23 | She was moving round the room at great speed for so heavily built a woman . |
| 24 | Rabbits often disappear down their holes at great speed and without slowing up , so they clearly need an excellent assessment of exactly where to jump , to avoid bumping into the sides of their front entrance . |
| 25 | I pay the rent , the salaries , the insurance , this , that and the other , and meanwhile I 'm having to sell stuff at great losses . |
| 26 | If you care , then watch some people on WITHOUT WALLS go on about these topics at great and possibly mind-numbing length . |
| 27 | The frequency of sudden death may be as high as 80% in some families at great risk and less than 5% in others . |
| 28 | Down the road at the church of St Mary the Virgin at Great Brington , scene of Lord Spencer 's funeral , the door was locked and tourists wandered round the churchyard in search of flowers and Spencer tombstones . |
| 29 | ‘ In a speech described as brusque and arrogant by West German sources , ’ reported Anna Tomforde in the Guardian , ‘ British representative Dr Martin Holdgate , the chief scientist at the Department of the Environment ’ said , ‘ We see no point in making heroic efforts at great cost , to control one out of many factors unless there is a reasonable expectation that such control will lead to real improvement in the environment . ’ |
| 30 | If the trust had n't needed these holes we 'd have had to bring soil in by lorry at great expense through surrounding villages which no one would have liked . |