Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it says in the article You own house and live in Surrey your surviving spouse is not going to get a great deal of the house . |
| 2 | The approach , however , is fundamentally marginal : it is not going to have a great effect on urban economies faced with the impact of massive corporate restructuring ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 3 | Figures of this kind can not avoid concealing a great deal . |
| 4 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession . |
| 7 | Kate did not seem to play a great part in her husband 's political life : she appeared on platforms with him from time to time , but she was by no means an automatic member of his entourage . |
| 8 | The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | erm we do n't expect to see a great change in that . |
| 12 | He could n't have bled a great deal , perhaps a cupful all told . |
| 13 | You see I ca n't afford to spend a great deal on anyone this year . |
| 14 | Nothing but bills as usual — she did n't seem to get a great deal else these days . |
| 15 | Well no , it 's not but it 's they do n't get paid a great deal . |
| 16 | Therefore , I do n't propose to take a great deal of time going through this report . |