Example sentences of "[noun sg] at great " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Kings Arms pub at Great Stainton is to go ahead with alterations to a small , historic bar . |
| 6 | Cecil had expressed his own attitude at great length and less clarity a year or two before this . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The prosecution said that drinkers at the Volunteer Inn at Great Somerford saw Mantack go into a phone box with a large tape recorder . |
| 10 | We have explained the point at great length to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside , but he keeps making his claim . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was moving round the room at great speed for so heavily built a woman . |
| 15 | I pay the rent , the salaries , the insurance , this , that and the other , and meanwhile I 'm having to sell stuff at great losses . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was a monologue called ‘ Good News ’ , in which Beattie enthused down the phone at great length to a young man who 'd apparently done her the most enormous good turn . |
| 19 | A major new underground mine ( Milldam ) is under development at Great Hucklow within the Peak District National Park . |
| 20 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 21 | A perfect example of a site that was deserted in the middle years of the seventeenth century can be examined on the ground at Great Stretton , a few miles south-east of Leicester . |
| 22 | Pupils at the exhibition at Great Tey Primary School |
| 23 | One of the methodologies used by anthropology is ‘ thick description ’ , the telling at great length of some cultural occurrence , one in which the anthropologist is frequently involved , followed by its analysis . |
| 24 | At some sites , where good building stone was scarce , timber-framed structures predominated throughout the Roman occupation , as for example at Great Chesterford , where all the known buildings with the exception of the two late official structures were of timber construction with gravel or earth floors , plaster covered wattle-and-daub walling and probably thatched roofs . |
| 25 | The company is also developing the new Milldam mine at Great Hucklow . |
| 26 | The presentation on Monday came 18 months after they rescued the pony from a narrow underground sewer at Great Burdon Farm , on the outskirts of Darlington . |
| 27 | Complex changes are visible at the north gate at Great Chesterford . |
| 28 | The wind was cutting across the open space at great speed , so cold it seemed to penetrate his bones . |
| 29 | The prime disadvantages , he believed , were two : " Absence of a territorial military organization " and the " need to maintain a large peacetime army at great expense due to the lack of a … reserve " . |
| 30 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |