Example sentences of "a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And that 's a greatest skill in itself . |
| 3 | With luck , a few years will bring a greatest hits compilation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gary is celebrating with a new single Through The Years , a greatest hits album and tour . |
| 6 | BIZARRE INC 's debut LP is excellent , but so it should be , since it 's effectively a greatest hits . |
| 7 | That does n't mean we have to go around in a great lather of gratitude all the time . |
| 8 | ‘ It was quite wet and Imran went quite far down the wicket — he may be a great player but he 's not a great runner — before sending Inzamam back . |
| 9 | A particularly puzzling aspect of the ammonoids is a great resemblance between external shell features that can be produced at different times by otherwise unrelated ammonoids . |
| 10 | and there was a great resemblance . |
| 11 | We used to like to go to clubs and I did n't like going by myself and Calvin was a great escort . |
| 12 | Commanding in the air , a great header of the ball and a strong tackler , Harry was the epitome of the ‘ stopper ’ centre-half and , in spite of playing for a struggling club , he was always loyal to the Palace . |
| 13 | It was a great pass , a great cross and a great header . |
| 14 | Ormanroyd that 's a great header to win . |
| 15 | ‘ Paul Wilkinson put in a great header but I got the final touch for my second goal . ’ |
| 16 | It was a great header by little McCoist . ’ |
| 17 | It was a pair , in fact , doing a little late courting , and then , just to push the point home , a great skua floated into sight . |
| 18 | Rounding the east side of the island the sea gets a little choppier in the tideway but we have a grandstand view of a gannet being robbed by a great skua . |
| 19 | A flock of snow buntings , a skein of brent geese , a flotilla of eiders , a great skua or a lone gannet makes it worth the waiting . |
| 20 | And there , beneath the back wall , the headstone , the white marble carved into the shape of an oak , its trunk exaggeratedly thick , its crown a great cumulus . |
| 21 | A wedding was a great earner , for on top of the handsome fee which was traditionally the obligation of the bride 's family the exuberance of the occasion invariably resulted in his being tipped quite generously by the groom 's family as well . |
| 22 | where ever it was , whatever it was I had to do , I got stuck , there were , there were just no underground trains in either direction on that line at all and a , a great tanner went |
| 23 | He 's scratched a great tuft of fur out . " |
| 24 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 25 | TONY HEWITT-JONES was a versatile musician and a great character in Gloucestershire music . |
| 26 | But Tom was a great character , a McEnroe of golf . |
| 27 | Ken was a great character , and so is Bill Martin . |
| 28 | Ted was a great character , a teacher of the old school , a gruff , no-nonsense character , but he was a man of great kindness and concern . |
| 29 | They 're a great base for those who want to take full advantage of the lively nightlife of Playa de las Americas and also be able to relax in the calmness of the grounds . |
| 30 | St Ives makes a great base , especially if you 're relying on public transport to get around . |