Example sentences of "[verb] done a great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Mr Cook has done a great service to the water environment in this country and the ramifications of this case will be heard for many years to come . ’ |
| 2 | I think he has done a great job on his return to the side . ’ |
| 3 | Frank Dick has done a great job with the shorter track events , but there 's a huge difference between those and the distance events . |
| 4 | ‘ David has done a great job over the last few weeks but he still has playing ambitions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He has done a great deal of important work to expose the problem and to help us find a solution to it . |
| 9 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 10 | This has done a great deal for the world . ’ |
| 11 | This union has done a great deal for equality . |
| 12 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 13 | By the judicious application of support in the areas where it could be most effective , government has done a great deal for the industry . |
| 14 | The right hon. Gentleman has done a great deal during his period in the House for disabled people and everyone in the House admires him for what he has done , but he must know that there have been dramatic improvements in recent years in the scope , range and value of benefits and in the number of disabled people who receive them . |
| 15 | The CCBE has done a great deal behind the scenes to fend off some of the battier ideas emanating from the European Commission . |
| 16 | You 've done a great job on the interiors . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
| 18 | He and April , Maggie 's mum , had done a great deal of their courting in the back seats of the stalls . |
| 19 | not because he was Mansfield , but because he was a man of their own party and had done a great deal of work in connection with municipal , industrial and trade union affairs generally … |
| 20 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
| 21 | One student teacher , carrying out a project on food , had done a great deal of oral history work and used pictorial sources . |
| 22 | She had done a great deal of hiking in her university years , and using whatever cover nature provided had been the order of the day . |
| 23 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 24 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 25 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Our intention was always to purchase a CT scanner in our business plan this year and we have done a great deal of work , ’ he said . |
| 27 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
| 28 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 29 | And I agree , the Government claims it 's done a great deal for the environment . |