Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bringing all this together has required a great deal of planning , co-operation between numerous organisations and many long hours of work , ’ he added . |
| 2 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 3 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 4 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 5 | For example , Videologic 's real-time video capture and manipulation system , the DVA-4000 board , could not have become the great success it is today without Videologic 's excellent accompanying authoring software . |
| 6 | Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote : |
| 7 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 8 | On the other hand , she comforted herself , the modern Dane , from what she had read and the little she had seen , appeared not to have inherited a great deal from his pillaging ancestors ! |
| 9 | Certainly the letters he had written home had made no great fuss about the child 's death . |
| 10 | In real life , of course , you would probably have to master a great deal more information , including details of the premises and the personal particulars of all the key staff . |
| 11 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 12 | We also had to learn a great deal of poetry by heart — poetry which I can still recall all these years later . |
| 13 | These documents — student records and timetables — often have to carry a great deal of information including complex messages and progress summaries . |
| 14 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 15 | He could n't have bled a great deal , perhaps a cupful all told . |
| 16 | Medical Services are steaming ahead having had a great year . |
| 17 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |
| 18 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |