Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] a great [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 5 | Our friend Drummle has won a great prize ! |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ David has done a great job over the last few weeks but he still has playing ambitions . |
| 9 | The sofa bed or studio couch has made a great difference to one-room living . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Over the last ten summers the Trabukos Beach Club has become a great favourite with club 18–30 . |
| 15 | Even the perfectionists were impressed and admitted they came away with their tails between their legs having learnt a great lesson about false pride . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fortunately , the relations between the American and the British peoples have improved a great deal since then . |
| 19 | In addition , the short units have enabled a great variety of topics to be included . |
| 20 | ‘ The homes have generated a great deal of interest . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The CCBE has done a great deal behind the scenes to fend off some of the battier ideas emanating from the European Commission . |
| 29 | No one can deny that the Council has done a great deal to improve the quality of education . |
| 30 | In Britain , archaeology has thrown a great deal of light on the Dark Ages : but British students , when they turn to the ninth-century Continent , are in for a disappointment , for relatively little has been done . |