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Example sentences for "great degree"

  • It had its origin, not altogether, but certainly in a great degree, in two of his moral characteristics.

  • In this case the reality of the miracles themselves depends in a great degree on the opinion we form of Christ's veracity, and this opinion must arise gradually from the careful examination of his whole life.

  • And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics.

  • Like most of the other varieties, the amount of product is in a great degree dependent on soil, culture, and season.

  • For the very general dissemination of this variety, the public are, in a great degree, indebted to the late I.

  • Rhubarb from Turkey and the neighboring countries is generally preferred; but it is said its superiority, to a great degree, is attributable to the manner in which it is dried and prepared for market.

  • As the trial approached, a great degree of sensibility was displayed; and the verdict in favour of Henfield was celebrated with extravagant marks of joy and exultation.

  • This difficulty is, in a great degree, peculiar to a teacher.

  • These plans were readily and cheerfully adopted by the boys, and in a short time the vice of profaneness was, in a great degree, banished from the school.

  • A teacher, by adopting the following plan, succeeded in awakening a great degree of interest on the subject, and, consequently, of promoting rapid improvement.

  • These faults he has of late in a great degree amended.

  • Since coming to Bristol I have not found my prospects so good as I before had reason to expect (owing in a great degree to political irritation).

  • This will generally be brought to a great degree of perfection if the sportsman regards the general excellence of the dog rather than the perfection of any particular point.

  • Observe with the utmost attention all the operations of your own mind, the nature of your passions, and the various motives that determine your will; and you may, in a great degree, know all mankind.

  • In ten minutes their voices seemed to sound to each other as they did in the Rue de Rivoli, and their mutual perplexity had in a great degree subsided.

  • It was not merely manners, but even the intellectual and moral development of the human mind, which in a great degree, unconsciously to himself, had been submitted to his study and his scrutiny.

  • The clue to the mystery, in a great degree, now dwells with Frank Halloway; and to him we must look for its elucidation.

  • Such, in a great degree, had been the case in the instance of the officer over whose grave they were now met to render the last offices of companionship, if not of friendship.

  • During the march, the young Prince had manifested a lofty sense of his own honour; but it was combined with a great degree of obstinacy in some respects, almost accompanied by puerility.

  • In great degree it was, so to speak, home-bred.

  • The arguments drawn from local interests were repelled and retorted, and a great degree of irritation was excited on both sides.

  • In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession.

  • Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

  • This argument may be carried further than philosophers are aware of, for if nature destined woman, in particular, for the discharge of domestic duties, she made her susceptible of the attached affections in a great degree.

  • But no plan could be devised for dealing with the evil in counties, till what seemed hopeless to achieve by direct legislation was, in a great degree, effected by the indirect operation of the Reform Bill of 1832.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great addition; great advantage; great agitation; great band; great battle; great bend; great blessing; great boon; great calm; great central; great content; great empire; great gods; great honor; great honour; great house; great part; great point; great quantity; great rage; great riches; great scarcity; great speech; great wind; great wrath; greatest pleasure