Example sentences of "great to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money involved , the ruthlessness , and the organisation , were all far too great to be explained by the political opposition to the President wanting to discredit the Government prior to the coming election . |
| 2 | The totality of English grammar is too great to be studied in detail here ; there are numerous books on the subject . |
| 3 | Two or more maps would be needed if the detail shown is not to get too great to be displayed or absorbed by the user . |
| 4 | More and more I was enjoying my evenings with Frank and Sarge , and it was great to be accepted warmly into such a compatible family . |
| 5 | And if I do n't get that then well it 's depressing because it 's great to be treated as a person when you go into , in those places , and that 's really what I do . |
| 6 | The gap between provision and need is too great to be bridged rapidly and many shortcomings have continued to be revealed by the considerable glare of publicity directed at the local authority services for the handicapped . |
| 7 | Even using secondary sources alone , the amount of information involved is usually too great to be encompassed by a single person , and so of necessity such studies are often undertaken as a team project . |
| 8 | Miss Christie says : ‘ Fay is a wonderful writer and it 's a great to be asked to do it . ’ |
| 9 | It 's great to be given the opportunity to try another outdoor activity and I enjoyed the challenge . |
| 10 | It 's great to be causing controversy again — we have n't lost it ! ’ . |
| 11 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 12 | ‘ So I would get hold of a lot of avid church users and have them saying things like , ‘ It 's great to be involved ’ , ‘ The whole family enjoy it ’ and ‘ An hour well-spent once a week ’ . |
| 13 | We are on a roll and it 's great to be involved . ’ |
| 14 | The potential benefits to man and agriculture are far too great to be ignored . |
| 15 | All businesses were examined except those where the technical complexity was too great to be understood by central corporate staff . |
| 16 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |
| 17 | ‘ Now it 's great to be going back there in a successful side — I only hope they give me a good reception . ’ |
| 18 | Kelly herself says it 's great to be going home . |
| 19 | The volume passing grows too great to be sorted properly . |
| 20 | Santiago itself is ten kilometres from the airport , and after two solid days of flying it was great to be cycling . |
| 21 | It 's great to be appreciated . |
| 22 | So , there are some levels of sheer luck , not only too great for puny human imaginations , but too great to be allowed in our hard-headed calculations about the origin of life . |
| 23 | The former England midfielder , who is expected to be player-coach , said before leaving for the talks : ‘ I would be happy to come back north and it will be great to be working with Howard again . ’ |
| 24 | It was great to be working in one place for a few nights on the trot so that I could afford to go to that amount of trouble . ’ |
| 25 | It 's great to be working on ‘ Sonnet ’ with you . |
| 26 | The risks to his person were already great simply coming down the nearly straight avenues from the Palaţul Primaverii to the Central Committee building , but the imaginary dangers threatening him in the area to the west of the hill were too great to be contemplated . |
| 27 | In 1859 , the number of winners ' medals had become too great to be attached to the silver arrow and the trophy was re-modelled in its present form , in which the original arrow is supported by a silver bow and crossed bolts , all standing on an ebony and silver plinth . |
| 28 | THE ELECTION results have confirmed what most people already suspected — that the differences between the political parties and their supporters may be too great to be resolved in another round of talks , however well-meaning . |
| 29 | At the Tribute and subsequently in Seville , it must have been great to be surrounded by so many people who openly acknowledge Queen as a huge influence . |