Example sentences of "[vb past] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | In establishing their ancestry , little reference is ever made to the surrealists , who obviously contributed a great deal to the contestation of realism — this seems to arise mainly from a dislike of the practice of automatic writing . |
| 2 | This is not so , but they have , over many centuries , contributed a great deal in the formation of the Madeira we know today — particularly in the areas of trade , industry and tourism . |
| 3 | He contributed a great deal to the development of Welsh drama with both original plays and translations , while his book on Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom ( 1930 , revised edn. 1979 ) was the fruit of a lifelong study of the subject . |
| 4 | To that end , he tossed the media rabble dripping hunks of redundant , rote monologue ; his loudness provided a great show and diverted probing questions . |
| 5 | He also provided a great deal of material assistance to the poor and needy . |
| 6 | Once the research had established the physics of these losses — and provided a great deal of general information or the physics of plasmas — Culham returned to the development of toroidal systems . |
| 7 | What started out as a potential disaster provided a great opportunity to create something really different . |
| 8 | She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money . |
| 9 | While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) . |
| 10 | Thorfinn drew a great breath and roared , ‘ Albanaid ! ’ and was answered by a shout that drowned that of the Normans . |
| 11 | We fitted our seat belts this February and then concentrated on painting her flying surfaces — the paint-spraying booth at Malcolm 's place of work helped a great deal ! |
| 12 | Thence it described a great arc through Fenny Compton and Byfield to rejoin the other road at Cold Higham ( Crawford ) . |
| 13 | Alders and willows and rich grass and wild rose briars described a great , smooth horseshoe shape that was still hollowed gently into the green earth , with such authority that it had been acknowledged in perpetuity as a natural boundary , and a single large field hemmed within it . |
| 14 | Arthur Bennett was a builder and house decorator , living in Croydon , England , who devoted a great deal of time and energy to the study of the Scottish flora . |
| 15 | Richard and Peter devoted a great deal of thought to the theory underlying the succession , and made sure that there was a plausible Emorian reason for each change of emperor . |
| 16 | But he devoted a great deal of prior thought to the mood which he wished to create . |
| 17 | Abdu retained a great loyalty to his former mistress and spoke of her with reverence . |
| 18 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 19 | This I found a great help . |
| 20 | She was reduced to the landlord 's daughter who served at table : it was the sort of anonymous commingling in which she found a great relief . |
| 21 | Yorke found a great similarity of reasons given by staff despite the age/sex/type of schools canvassed . |
| 22 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 23 | There is also much evidence from a variety of sources that the labouring poor moved a great deal in search of employment , if usually not over very great distances . |
| 24 | One experienced key worker reported a great improvement in carers ' satisfaction with services organized under the care programme approach , which he attributed to their participation and consultation . |
| 25 | Then we , the half-mortals , withdrew to Andernesse and built a great spell-wall around us , to prevent the powers of the dark from entering . |
| 26 | They built a great number of cottages for their workpeople ; a Unitarian chapel for their spiritual welfare , a school for their children , and a mansion for themselves . |
| 27 | Their original conception involved a great railway station in one of the most important sites in the capital . |
| 28 | It involved a great deal of counting , sorting , matching , etc . |
| 29 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 30 | And he used a great many books of specifically Nazarean orientation , among them the Acts of Thomas . |