Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 5 | One teacher showed a brief extract from a historical film that had proved a great box office success . |
| 6 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 7 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 8 | The Gaian hypothesis was first promoted by the atmospheric chemist James Lovelock , and has stimulated a great debate about whether the fundamental controls on the Earth 's warming gases are biological or abiotic ( physical ) . |
| 9 | Starting with Camco , the newly appointed Chief Executive er , has been very , very active and has made a great impact already . |
| 10 | ‘ He was depressed and has suffered a great deal of mental anguish . ’ |
| 11 | He now shares a house near the hostel with four other care-leavers and has stabilised a great deal . |
| 12 | This initiative has presented the bank in a very positive way and has generated a great deal of media coverage . |
| 13 | She has been a member of the Finance Committee for the past two and a half years and has taken a great interest in the Society 's financial affairs . |
| 14 | The association is in touch with thousands of people caring for relatives and friends and has learned a great deal about the difficulties they face . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 17 | The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband . |
| 18 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 19 | ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Some buildings are larger and better known than others , and have had a great deal of publicity ; others are perhaps more modest in both scale and workmanship , but still deserving of attention as an important part of the local scene . |
| 21 | Tutorial colleges responded speedily to the new demand — and have changed a great deal as a result . |