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

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1 This technique has had a great deal of impact in computer programming where it in systems analysis and design .
2 The United states has done a great deal to blur the barrier between the bomb and the watt .
3 This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs .
4 The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data .
5 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 .
6 Our friend Drummle has won a great prize !
7 The recently electrified East Coast route has proved a great success … but could such modern technology be adapted to a railway designed more than a hundred and fifty years ago ?
8 The idea of the new international division of labour has excited a great deal of research interest ( for example , the volumes edited by Nash and Fernandez Kelly , 1983 ; Sanderson , 1985 and Caporaso , 1987 ) .
9 David has done a great job over the last few weeks but he still has playing ambitions .
10 The sofa bed or studio couch has made a great difference to one-room living .
11 During his active career as a painter and teacher David Crone has contributed a great deal to the advancement of contemporary visual art in Ireland and has gained a considerable reputation as one of the most important Irish artists at home and internationally .
12 These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism .
13 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 .
14 The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes .
15 Over the last ten summers the Trabukos Beach Club has become a great favourite with club 18–30 .
16 Even the perfectionists were impressed and admitted they came away with their tails between their legs having learnt a great lesson about false pride .
17 Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 .
18 I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left .
19 Fortunately , the relations between the American and the British peoples have improved a great deal since then .
20 In addition , the short units have enabled a great variety of topics to be included .
21 ‘ The homes have generated a great deal of interest .
22 First , the ‘ European bookseller Year ’ link with the meeting of the EC bookseller associations has drawn a great deal of attention , leading we hope to the largest ever London get-together of European booksellers .
23 Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution .
24 It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function .
25 This work has made a great contribution to our understanding of the subject , although the structural diversity of port wine stains confounds the best attempts at mathematical modelling and there is no substitute for good clinical assessments and comparisons of different laser systems .
26 While I believe that this work has promoted a great deal of useful thinking about the place and function of writing in the curriculum , I am not alone in doubting the validity of the model .
27 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 .
28 The impact of modern industry TNCs on patriarchal social relations in the developing countries has stimulated a great deal of interesting research in the 1980s ( see , for example , Lim , 1985 ; Nash and Fernandez-Kelly , 1983 ; Garnsey and Paukert , 1987 ) .
29 The CCBE has done a great deal behind the scenes to fend off some of the battier ideas emanating from the European Commission .
30 No one can deny that the Council has done a great deal to improve the quality of education .
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