Example sentences of "a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does n't mean we have to go around in a great lather of gratitude all the time . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and there was a great resemblance . |
| 5 | We used to like to go to clubs and I did n't like going by myself and Calvin was a great escort . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a great pass , a great cross and a great header . |
| 8 | Ormanroyd that 's a great header to win . |
| 9 | ‘ Paul Wilkinson put in a great header but I got the final touch for my second goal . ’ |
| 10 | It was a great header by little McCoist . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | He 's scratched a great tuft of fur out . " |
| 18 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 19 | TONY HEWITT-JONES was a versatile musician and a great character in Gloucestershire music . |
| 20 | But Tom was a great character , a McEnroe of golf . |
| 21 | Ken was a great character , and so is Bill Martin . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | St Ives makes a great base , especially if you 're relying on public transport to get around . |
| 25 | This comfortable yet compact village is a great base for exploring this typically alpine domain . |
| 26 | They sat in their saddles , and for a few minutes there was a great peace , as if the world held its breath at the beauty of this Irish evening . |
| 27 | Er I have a great sympathy for for that lady . |
| 28 | Why could n't he rise up and assert himself , shout at her , curse her , take off a great belt with a brazen buckle on it , like some muscular labouring man and beat hell out of her ? |
| 29 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 30 | There are hill-forms of every type ; smooth contoured chalk downs in a great belt encircling the London basin , the long line of the Cotswold edge , even-topped plateaux in Wales and Devon , bleak granite moorlands and craggy volcanic cliffs . |