Example sentences of "[to-vb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 2 | Changes in the course occur because of the need to attract a great number of students ; recently there has been a move to introduce a greater element of electronics in the course because |
| 3 | He must be prepared to accept a great deal on faith , glad to admit ‘ I do n't know how , but it certainly works ’ . |
| 4 | If you 're striving to write a great novel or to invent a piece of computer software , the very shyness that makes you avoid social events may allow you more time and motivation to pursue your solitary goals . |
| 5 | But then realism , as she knows , like journalism , does not exclude analysis : in fact her first book , Sartre , had ended in a mild sense of exasperation against philosophy itself , which she believed had frustrated Sartre by making him unable to write a great novel , ‘ a tragic symptom of a situation which afflicts us all ’ . |
| 6 | Failure to see the general principle that lies behind such simple , common-know edge , facts as these has often led anthropologists to write a great deal of nonsense . |
| 7 | The one thing that John Milton knew from the moment when he first began to reflect on his destiny , was that he was going to write a great poem . |
| 8 | Indeed , on the occasion one is fortunate enough to meet a great butler , far from experiencing any sceptical urge to demand a ‘ test ’ , one is at a loss to imagine any situation which could ever dislodge a professionalism borne with such authority . |
| 9 | One evening , lonely , he was taken to meet a great harpsichordist of nearly ninety . |
| 10 | Now the water was chest-high — more than that as we struggled round a corner , to meet a great frothing wave . |
| 11 | He continued to suffer a great deal with poor health , which , he says , stirred him up to ‘ speak to sinners with some compassion as a dying man to dying men ’ . |
| 12 | It has an innocent enough title — The Needs of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers from their Medical Departments in the 1990s — and in it he very reasonably argues that an increasingly sophisticated public , provided with alarming insights concerning drugs like Opren and thalidomide by such philosophical weeklies as the Sunday Times , is going to demand a great deal more information about the many medicines doctors so recklessly prescribe , ( Those are n't quite the terms he uses , by the way . ) |
| 13 | New moves tend to come from middle-class artists who have had the opportunity to absorb a great deal early and feel sufficiently confident in an educational and financially secure context to move it along . |
| 14 | Faced with a pressing requirement to absorb a great amount of educational , legal and procedural information , governors have an obvious and urgent need for training . |
| 15 | The opposite bank — which stands for success — seems very near but between where we stand and the opposite bank there is a ravine which is going to absorb a great deal of money . |
| 16 | Au pairs ' hours have to be fitted around language classes and travelling and so are unlikely to fit in with yours , unless you are prepared to compromise a great deal and have the energy after work to deal with the appalling homesickness experienced by young people living far from home . |
| 17 | On the other hand , even if the politician demonstrated his ability to provide a great deal of patronage , if he did not follow it up with effective social contact , he would be laying a poor foundation for a political interest , and the gratitude of the freeholders under those circumstances could be short-lived . |
| 18 | By doing so I hope to provide a great example for others to follow and to leave my name and footprints in the history of my school . |
| 19 | yeah , so I did have to guess a great deal |
| 20 | There are no strict rules about the use of these colours or the way in which they are worn , so it is usual to find a great deal of variation in clothing styles between regiments from the same place . |
| 21 | It would be surprising to find a great deal of this type of activity in any organization , although it would be sad to see none . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that members and creditors ( actual or potential ) of companies are afforded ample opportunities to obtain a great deal of financial and other information about the companies concerned . |
| 23 | Today 's sedimentologists are able to extract a great deal more information from thin sections by using special techniques to study fabrics , textures , mineralogy and geochemistry . |
| 24 | The Disclosure Letter is likely to contain a great deal of information on which the Purchaser will rely . |
| 25 | i ) Films of risky junctions tend to contain a great deal of information related to risk . |
| 26 | I should have to know a great deal more about you . |
| 27 | Fen seemed to know a great deal about the area , and as they ate their sandwiches , served with a generous helping of salad , he talked continuously , so unlike his normal taciturn self that Robbie suspected he was steering clear of more personal and controversial topics . |
| 28 | Accordingly , the researcher needs to know a great deal about likely extraneous factors so that they can be controlled . |
| 29 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 30 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |