Example sentences of "with great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look back with great thankfulness to God and deep affection to Holy Cross students for what was a most happy and satisfying central period of my life . |
| 2 | Wonderful and fearful and filled both with great weakness and immense strength . |
| 3 | In the event , by the intervention of the umpire , Norrish was given enough room after two minutes to grasp the stream and she held on to her advantage with great skill until Oxford were clear and the race was won . |
| 4 | ‘ But I think you have used some of your own pain very — um — well , with great skill and honesty . |
| 5 | She had played a waiting game with great skill in the 1540s . |
| 6 | The Committee itself concluded ‘ that the overall technical standard of the operation has been high , both in the sense that the signal itself has been generated with great skill and proficiency and that the practical and logistical problems associated with presence of televising personnel and equipment have been kept to a minimum ’ . |
| 7 | With great skill he managed to get the overladen aircraft down on the desert , but at dawn they discovered German traffic on a nearby road . |
| 8 | He surveys art , biology and physics with great skill to illustrate symmetry in its several forms — bilateral , translatory , rotational , ornamental and crystallographic . |
| 9 | When a lion gets close enough to strike , it usually does so with great skill and confidence and does not appear to be miscalculating its position to the slightest degree . |
| 10 | Masur paces the first movements with great skill and builds climaxes with just the right sense of slow , inexorable growth . |
| 11 | He was defending himself with great skill , every now and then sliding his hands down the staff and striking at a distance with its full length , and then suddenly changing direction and bringing the shortened end up in a jab at the face or stomach of one of the attackers he had tempted to come too close . |
| 12 | Lions may learn to jump through hoops or sea lions to clap their flippers while balancing a ball on their noses , but lions jump over obstacles in their home territory or laze around under a favourite tree , while sea lions are naturally dexterous , chasing fish with great skill . |
| 13 | The character of Josef ( played with great skill by David De Keyser ) is sadly amusing — a writer who has abandoned his country and family for freedom of expression , he can not express himself in an artistic or commercial way . |
| 14 | ‘ For someone who hates violence , ’ I agreed , ‘ you used force with great skill . |
| 15 | ‘ An amazing story told with great skill and restraint . ’ |
| 16 | Before that , you handled the difficult job of Chief Secretary to the Treasury with great skill and determination and made an important contribution in a wide range of other ministerial jobs . |
| 17 | If you work with great skill , Colonel , and with great dedication then you will earn your luck . ’ |
| 18 | The major trials which followed the movement ‘ to the people ’ were used with great skill by the accused and their defence lawyers to expose the incompetence and brutality of the police , to draw attention to the plight of the peasantry , and to win sympathy for the wretched poverty of many students . |
| 19 | A driver with great skill and courage which belied his frail-looking body , Nuvolari stayed with Alfa until midway through 1933 . |
| 20 | Chariots and horses are designed in strict profile and carved with great skill in a series of recessed planes parallel to the background . |
| 21 | With great skill , determination and unparalleled cheek , Jo Spence not only insisted on putting the unacceptable face of both our public and private lives onto the art agenda , but into the art institution . |
| 22 | From then on he administered Penang with great skill and energy , which led to a considerable growth in population and trade . |
| 23 | But Krieger was open to other influences , including Italian operatic song ( e.g. ‘ O schone Schäferin ’ ) and cantata ( e.g. ‘ Fleug , Psyche , fleug ’ ) ; he varied symmetry and burst the strophic form ( e.g. ‘ Adonis Tod ’ and ‘ Ich bin verwundt ’ ) with great skill and emotional power , and also commanded a lighter vein ( e.g. ‘ Rheinwein' and ‘ Es kann nichts angenehmer sein ’ ) . |
| 24 | He held his hand out and this time he did not wait for her to respond , but grasped her hand firmly and began to lead her , with great skill and speed , over the rocks towards the cliff . |
| 25 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course I do , with great skill ! ’ |
| 27 | He tells me about the men he met in prison , imitating their varied dialects with great skill . |
| 28 | The ‘ magic realism ’ is conjured up with great skill and paints a vivid historical picture which few history books can better . |
| 29 | He created a water garden at his former home in the Cotswolds and grew primulas with great skill . |
| 30 | Graham Money ( 79 ) batted with great skill to allow the visitors to declare after 42 overs at 163–6 . |