Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of spending went on social and community projects , an area where the voluntary sector flourished . |
| 2 | ‘ It is easy to make the judgement that there is a good deal of fatalism held by unskilled workers … [ they ] believe they ‘ do n't have the knowledge ’ to think about the organization of their work . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend brings a great deal of expertise to bear on this issue . |
| 4 | Third on fuel costs , the inquiry is likely to spend a great deal of time looking at coal-price assumptions , because Sizewell would be uneconomic if coal prices do not experience any real increase . |
| 5 | Inevitably it takes a great deal of time to go into these cases . |
| 6 | On the whole , radio stations are friendlier places than TV stations and have a good deal of time to fill with non-controversial general interest material . |
| 7 | In most day units , whatever they are called , attenders normally spend a good deal of time chatting to other attenders or sitting about watching the world go by , doing nothing very much . |
| 8 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 9 | Therefore , I do n't propose to take a great deal of time going through this report . |
| 10 | The cuckoo , especially the male when singing , spends a great deal of time sitting on exposed perches , making it particularly vulnerable . |
| 11 | The farm runs nearly 3,000 sheep and we had a great deal of interest represented by 641 enquiries , 46 viewers and ten who were seriously interested . ’ |
| 12 | The potatoes were so filling that there was n't a great deal of room left for all the other foods they usually ate . |
| 13 | Competition was further boosted with the lifting of exchange controls in 1979 , and by 1981 the competition that had grown within the monetary sector spilled over to confront building societies as banks moved into mortgage lending . |
| 14 | The new measures , announced in September and October , included the floating of the currency and the lifting of price controls on some petroleum products . |
| 15 | Durnford and Kimura therefore concluded that the right hemisphere is specialised for the perception of depth cued by retinal disparity . |
| 16 | The normal pattern for the distribution of funding is a form of the Normal Distribution Curve , with the bulk of funding going to middle-of-the-road research carried out in Departments which are already pre-eminent , as can be seen from the figures for NERC support for geology quoted earlier . |
| 17 | A number of projects have been successful in which the supply of inputs and the marketing of the product are managed on a commercial basis while the bulk of production comes from small farmers . |
| 18 | Think , for example , of the force of traditionalism represented by contemporary Islam . |
| 19 | Entry , in particular , brings a force of discipline to bear upon existing firms , and is also frequently an important source of the new ideas which promote dynamism in industries . |
| 20 | It resembles a hollow ring of land surrounded by scattered archipelagos . |
| 21 | Cardenas compared inverted files with multilists , showing that their space requirements are usually very similar , and that the speed of access provided by each file organization is dependent on the structure of the data . |
| 22 | Compared to videotape players which move the tape past a head in a linear way , this speed of access combined with random access to any point in a programme gives videodisc much greater flexibility . |
| 23 | The speed of transmission varies from 6 minutes down to a matter of seconds per A4 page , depending on the type of fax machine used . |
| 24 | Robert Jones , who will be driving the lorry , is a veteran of mercy runs to eastern Europe — this is his thirteenth mission — said : ‘ Conditions in Romania are still bad . |
| 25 | Sometimes there is a uniformity of antagonism based on shared rumour and widespread disrepute . |
| 26 | Other factors such as the personal and public importance of the event are equally likely to be of significance and it seems inappropriate to regard such memories as providing evidence for a general enhancement of memory related to increased arousal or emotion . |
| 27 | However , tests on the effects of a variety of conservation measures , including the incorporation of grass strips in cultivated maize fields and mulching with leaf litter from undisturbed forest , showed that the latter was particularly effective and reduced erosion by more than 90 per cent while , due to the nutrient input , productivity was increased by c. 30 per cent . |
| 28 | The subject was asked to swallow a 10 ml bolus of water labelled with 1 mCi ( 37 MBq ) of Tc-99m ( sulphur colloid ) followed by dry swallows every 15 seconds . |
| 29 | He said the Conservatives had made no mention of tax increases in last year 's election manifesto and accused Mr Lamont of having a ‘ selective memory ’ . |
| 30 | There is a smooth process of convergence to full knowledge , unlike the sudden loss of reputation observed in many reputational models . |