Example sentences of "great [noun sg] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great opportunity to be seized . |
| 2 | He wanted it to be called the Chemical Engineering Society but this proved to be too avant-garde , and a great opportunity to be first was lost . |
| 3 | It 's a great opportunity to be able to meet with the Leeds Chairman and talk about the points you raised . |
| 4 | I was doing the Mujahadeen side for Life and one day I thought it would be a great story to be in Kabul when it fell , to see it from the Mujahadeen side . |
| 5 | I have continuously taken the view during the time that I have held my present office that it is a great privilege to be Secretary of State for Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | He sailed the river since being a boy , and it 's a great privilege to be back in his home port . |
| 7 | It is a very great privilege to be chosen to represent this ward for the next three years . |
| 8 | It is a very great privilege to be ‘ at the receiving end ’ when gifts come . |
| 9 | Yes , I er I went in February nineteen ninety two and certainly this was a great privilege to be there for , was it , three weeks ? |
| 10 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 11 | The eye is the most tell-tale detail of any animal shape and it is a great advantage to be able to obscure it from view . |
| 12 | I haven 's seen the film but I can imagine that it would be a great advantage to be shown the highly symbolic garden and to breathe the house 's atmosphere of sunny perversity . |
| 13 | Starting out for Espero Fray Gary , the warm up area near the campground , we had to use what was left of the road after a landslide and I soon learned an essential fact about climbing in Spain — it 's a great advantage to be able to speak some Spanish . |
| 14 | Here , unlike the scientific field , it is no great advantage to be ‘ armed with reason ’ . |
| 15 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 16 | Age was the great enemy to be laughed away . |
| 17 | Just how black is n't fully apparent until about half-way through , when you discover that the glum little son ( a brilliant performance by a child , Bryan Madorsky ) of the happy couple ( Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt ) has a great deal to be disturbed about . |
| 18 | François Guizot , an archetypal representative of the political élite , neatly summed up the Prince 's appeal : ‘ It means a great deal to be at one and the same time a national glory , a revolutionary guarantee , and a principle of authority . ’ |
| 19 | While there is still a great deal to be done in both these fields , there are few people who are unaware of the terms and what they mean . |
| 20 | There is a great deal to be learnt about committee work and the new councillor must expect to undergo a probationary period in some of the less important committees of the council . |
| 21 | Despite the enormous amount of information we have already accumulated there remains a great deal to be learned and this is one of the special pleasures of animal-watching . |
| 22 | There is clearly a great deal to be done in understanding the initiating steps in order to effect more marked changes in spoilation resistance . |
| 23 | Judged against this standard , many of our towns now seem to leave a great deal to be desired . ’ |
| 24 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 25 | Philip had a great deal to be pleased about . |
| 26 | ‘ But there is a great deal to be learnt and a number of players like Border , the Waugh brothers , Greg Chappell and Tom Moody really gained a great deal from playing county cricket . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand , it leads to the admission that in so far as all linguistic theories are provisional and incomplete ( particularly in the sphere of semantics ) , even the best-informed linguistic analysis leaves a great deal to be desired . |
| 28 | He had a great deal to be grateful for . |
| 29 | As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 30 | From another point of view , it is an attempt to indicate to those who have to put language curricula into practice , at whatever level — ELT classrooms , lower school , sixth form , university — that there is a great deal to be gained by being prepared to leave the beaten track , as H V Morton did . |