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

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1 On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’
2 A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time .
3 Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ .
4 This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married .
5 They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives .
6 Like a chariot , the Pump Wagon causes a great deal of damage as it charges but the effect is even more extreme due to the destructive power of the crunching roller at the front .
7 Spiritual and organisational precursors are also fully dealt with , though some may find the inclusions and conclusions rather fanciful — indeed , this subject causes a great deal of disagreement even in official circles .
8 These procedures should be manag you know part of management consultation , not part of the Dave writes it , if he like says , well that 's what we 'll do for B E S , and then , and then I 'm told , oh , that 's what we do for B E S , I tell staff , and that causes a great deal of unrest in staff .
9 We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ?
10 I have been walking a great deal , he wrote .
11 In establishing their ancestry , little reference is ever made to the surrealists , who obviously contributed a great deal to the contestation of realism — this seems to arise mainly from a dislike of the practice of automatic writing .
12 This is not so , but they have , over many centuries , contributed a great deal in the formation of the Madeira we know today — particularly in the areas of trade , industry and tourism .
13 He contributed a great deal to the development of Welsh drama with both original plays and translations , while his book on Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom ( 1930 , revised edn. 1979 ) was the fruit of a lifelong study of the subject .
14 He also provided a great deal of material assistance to the poor and needy .
15 Once the research had established the physics of these losses — and provided a great deal of general information or the physics of plasmas — Culham returned to the development of toroidal systems .
16 We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office .
17 To till properly , you must know a great deal about every bit of your land — you will find variations between different parts of even one small field — soil texture , structure , acidity , drainage , and history must all be considered ; as must the significance of the life within the soil and its relationship to fertility .
18 They do n't know a great deal at the moment about competitive strategies , marketing strategies , organisational analysis and all the other issues that keep chief executives awake at night . ’
19 ‘ He did not know a great deal about navigation , although he had enough fuel to get to France , but all he had with him was a holdall with a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a sports diary with a map of the world in it . ’
20 He said to me on the phone he did n't know a great deal cos he was just getting it all together .
21 I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them .
22 I do n't know a great deal about flowers , to tell the truth .
23 I hope you will know a great deal more of me before you write my Life . ’ ’
24 Well , at least one good thing would come out of this trip , she decided philosophically — she would know a great deal more about Denmark 's capital city by the time she returned to England .
25 I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets .
26 ‘ It has always been in the family and we know that James Springhall lived in Cargo Fleet Road , but other than that I 'm afraid we do n't know a great deal about him , or his life in Australia . ’
27 ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap .
28 It is worth remembering that only one boat in the tottering Polaris fleet is working ; serious cracks in the cooling systems of the other boats are necessitating a great deal of expenditure and causing much anxiety to the Ministry of Defence .
29 She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money .
30 Moreover , both of these groups , while they will need a great deal of outside support in the initial stages , have perhaps more reason to welcome the independence and privacy a single lifestyle gives them than anyone else .
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