Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I must emphasize that , although social anthropologists in the field concentrate a great deal of their attention on day-to-day domestic relationships , it is not really the set of domestic relationships as such which is their ultimate focus of interest . |
| 2 | This technique produced a great deal of interesting material , but I still felt a need to achieve more insight into the language behaviour of my informants — especially outside school . |
| 3 | There 's a great atmosphere around the hotel 's lovely pool , and the large bar/lounge plays a great mixture of music , and shows English videos every day . |
| 4 | The rich oral tradition of the pesme made a great impression on writers and folklorists during the Romantic revival of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Luck plays a great part in success and as mine would have it , I was chosen for the pre-Christmas show . |
| 6 | We can not smell their pheromones , though it is clear from their behaviour that smell plays a great part in social life : in mother-foal bonding , group identity , individual recognition , mating , tracking , perhaps recognition of home range , and so on . |
| 7 | This powder has a great attraction for all animals , and the horse itself . |
| 8 | The crag contains a great selection of classic climbs ; it would be a pity to lose access to it because of the thoughtless actions of a few loud-mouthed oafs . |
| 9 | The appeal of St James , and his influence , became for a space immense ; his cockle shell a great mark of prestige and spiritual hope worn by successful pilgrims , or those who wished to be thought so , for centuries to come . |
| 10 | Inevitably review plays a great part in the process of quality control by external agencies . |
| 11 | Magnetic saturation has a great influence on the torque produced by a stepping motor ( Fig.3.1 ) and its effects can be included in pull-out torque calculations ( Acarnley and Hughes , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
| 13 | Food : As we have seen in an earlier chapter , our physical condition has a great influence on our minds and our emotions — the reverse also being true . |
| 14 | When we look at the open countryside it does n't really to my mind say a great deal about er what is what should be considered acceptable . |
| 15 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 16 | Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker . |
| 17 | As soon as it was launched in 1986 the East London Compact attracted a great deal of attention from people wishing to learn how a local Partnership between Education and Industry could work to enhance the educational experiences and vocational opportunities of young people . |
| 18 | The piece includes a great deal of descriptive colour ; only try it if you feel you can bring something of your own imagination to it , and be prepared to risk some indulgence . |
| 19 | Although a proportion of this was absorbed in investment and servicing the growing national debt , the bulk financed a great expansion of the apparatus of the State . |
| 20 | In its initial year the new department spent a great deal of time and energy intervening in the private sector to try to save jobs , especially in the cutlery and engineering sectors . |
| 21 | Coping with hearing loss takes a great deal of energy . |
| 22 | Whilst running a marathon requires a great deal of stamina , yoga is undoubtedly the best way to improve suppleness while weight-lifting obviously develops strength . |
| 23 | The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed . |
| 24 | One of them slouched in her seat making a great show of what she thought of the event . |
| 25 | In this case , the term does a great disservice to horses . |
| 26 | For a long time , the public relations industry had a great number of former journalists working on it . |
| 27 | Binoculars of this aperture cost a great deal of money . |
| 28 | His skin secretes a great deal of mucus which both keeps the young attached and prevents them from drying out . |
| 29 | The railway ghost caused a great stir in Darlington at the time but many were very sceptical about its bona fides . |
| 30 | " El-ahrairah made a great business of examining the king . |