Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a great [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 i ) Films of risky junctions tend to contain a great deal of information related to risk .
2 The sad story of the decline of the African elephant mainly due to ivory poaching has received a great deal of much-needed publicity .
3 Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s .
4 A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years .
5 Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity .
6 The latter class has received a great deal of attention recently because homologous sequences have been found as domains contained within larger DNA binding proteins such as the nucleolar transcription factor hUBF ( 3 ) , mitochondrial transcription factor 1 ( 4 ) , sex-determining region Y ( SRY ) ( 5 , 6 ) , lymphoid enhancer binding factor I ( LEF-1 ) ( 7 ) , a T-cell specific transcription factor TCF-1α ( 8 ) , and the yeast autonomously replicating sequence factor ABF2 ( 9 ) .
7 The role of community education in the process of social change has aroused a great deal of discussion and action by socially committed adult educators over the last two decades .
8 That has aroused a great deal of fear and was referred to in a recent Health and Safety Executive report .
9 The House has given a great deal of detailed attention to the Bill , and the promoters and the petitioners have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the case .
10 Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance .
11 Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " .
12 The general practice fundholding scheme , which was introduced as part of the package of organisational reforms to the NHS in April 1991 , has attracted a great deal of comment .
13 These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism .
14 Over the last two decades the study of code switching has attracted a great deal of interest from researchers working in different areas of linguistics .
15 The rise of ‘ put-and-take ’ fisheries has paralleled a great explosion of interest in game fishing ; and as more and more people discover the delights of angling , tackle manufacturers have been quick to cash in on this growing demand .
16 This century has seen a great growth of scholarly interest in Hobbes ' writings in all these fields .
17 For him , to discover a new writer of genius is as satisfying an experience , as it is for a lesser man to believe that he has written a great work of genius himself .
18 Marketing has spawned a great deal of ‘ mumbo-jumbo ’ but its prevailing theme is people , at the heart of our business are the children and their parents and the community that we all serve .
19 ‘ He was depressed and has suffered a great deal of mental anguish . ’
20 The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data .
21 Since those days she has done a great deal of work with Steven Berkoff — particularly in his play for two people , Decadence which she has played in London , Los Angeles and Dublin .
22 The appointment of Bernard Gallacher as British National Coach three years ago , was another boost for the women 's game — ‘ He has done a great deal of good , ’ confirmed Sally Hepburn — and the LGU was delighted when the Wentworth professional agreed to continue his duties this season , despite the distraction of captaining the European Ryder Cup side at Kiawah Island in September .
23 Similarly , the Transport 2000 group , which has done a great deal of work on this matter , has discovered beyond doubt that the interests of consumers in England and Wales have not been protected by privatisation .
24 He has done a great deal of important work to expose the problem and to help us find a solution to it .
25 The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer .
26 He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here .
27 Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives .
28 After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted .
29 ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage .
30 If we follow Wimsatt and Beardsley this far , we arrive at a position that has had a great deal of attraction for literary critics , that the object of criticism must be the literary text itself .
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