Example sentences of "[vb pp] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenkins has enjoyed great success with Llanelli : the Schweppes Cup in 1988 , the Welsh Merit Table and Cup final in 1989 , the Cup and second place in the inaugural Heineken League in 1991 . |
| 2 | Even if such inscriptions were non-existent rather than just rare , it would be no more than commonsense to guess that generals in the field must have enjoyed great executive latitude , especially in wartime — more latitude than was compatible with the exercise of detailed control , and so of full sovereignty , by the Assembly . |
| 3 | We have enjoyed great success together but I feel the chance to be published on both sides of the Atlantic by HarperCollins is an exciting stage in my career . |
| 4 | Portacaval shunt surgery has not enjoyed great popularity because of the very high incidence of postoperative encephalopathy in the elderly . |
| 5 | What has attracted great attention recently are moves towards an internal market in the NHS , which would allow health authorities to buy and sell services to and from one another . |
| 6 | Compiled by Tom Ferris , and published by Gill and McMillan ( In Ireland ) , it has attracted great interest and is reported to be selling well . |
| 7 | The meeting has already attracted great interest from smaller nations which will be sending teams to the Olympics , and they will be accommodated in a one-and-a-half hour ‘ warm-up ’ before the principle events get under way at 7.30pm and are beamed out live to a world-wide audience by Screensport . |
| 8 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 9 | But the Bartók Quartet , whose recordings of the Beethoven Quartets have won great acclaim , make light of the considerable technical demands . |
| 10 | If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed . |
| 11 | Gary Lineker would have looked great in that , not to mention Gazza . |
| 12 | The idea that drinking nablabs was a seriously smart thing to do ant that hordes or women would subsequently fall at one 's feet probably looked great on a storyboard but it failed to impress the punters . |
| 13 | But who 'd have expected great lasagna ? |
| 14 | Leeds City Council has made great provisions for handicapped people in all its buildings and public places , and at Roundhay Park there are scented gardens for the blind . |
| 15 | However , Sir Lewis has made great efforts to dispel an admitted ‘ deep scepticism ’ at his appointment among the group 's staff of more than 7,000 , and there is growing confidence among them in what he is doing . |
| 16 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 17 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 18 | Kinnock has made great changes and one admires the way he has manipulated the Labour Party towards reality . |
| 19 | Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed . |
| 20 | In an age where liberty has made great advances in the world , there is still conflict , instability and want , causing great misery and inhibiting the peace and co-operation which we want to help to build . |
| 21 | The Royal Agricultural Society of England later made great , continuous , and finally successful efforts to remedy this undoubted narrowness in the syllabus . |
| 22 | Some degeneration can be treated or even reversed and doctors and researchers in our hospitals have made great strides forward . |
| 23 | The women had made great play with brooms and buckets , sweeping the pavement around the policeman 's feet till he was forced to jump over them to avoid being floored . |
| 24 | I went straight to Donibristle where I found Lt. R.M. Smeeton ( later Vice-Admiral Sir Richard ) had already made great strides in equipping the new Fulmar IIs . |
| 25 | It is consulted regularly by the Conference of Bishops , and in recent years has made great strides in making the women 's voice heard , and enabling women to play their part in the collaboration at all levels in the Church . |
| 26 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 27 | Both made great sacrifices — the Buddha by consenting to live , and the Christ by being willing to die . |
| 28 | As expected , in trying to persuade you to take their shares , Anglo-Welsh have made great play of their recent growth in profits . |
| 29 | The Soviet Union has made great strides since the advent of socialism in 1917 and China has achieved a remarkable increase in prosperity in the years since the communists took over . |
| 30 | Both made great inroads into the Canadian 's lead and all three hit the line almost together , but McKoy dipped fractionally ahead . |