Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [vb pp] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique has had a great deal of impact in computer programming where it in systems analysis and design . |
| 2 | This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs . |
| 3 | The role of community education in the process of social change has aroused a great deal of discussion and action by socially committed adult educators over the last two decades . |
| 4 | The recently electrified East Coast route has proved a great success … but could such modern technology be adapted to a railway designed more than a hundred and fifty years ago ? |
| 5 | The idea of the new international division of labour has excited a great deal of research interest ( for example , the volumes edited by Nash and Fernandez Kelly , 1983 ; Sanderson , 1985 and Caporaso , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The sofa bed or studio couch has made a great difference to one-room living . |
| 7 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 8 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 9 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 10 | Over the last ten summers the Trabukos Beach Club has become a great favourite with club 18–30 . |
| 11 | Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution . |
| 12 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |
| 13 | This work has made a great contribution to our understanding of the subject , although the structural diversity of port wine stains confounds the best attempts at mathematical modelling and there is no substitute for good clinical assessments and comparisons of different laser systems . |
| 14 | While I believe that this work has promoted a great deal of useful thinking about the place and function of writing in the curriculum , I am not alone in doubting the validity of the model . |
| 15 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
| 16 | The CCBE has done a great deal behind the scenes to fend off some of the battier ideas emanating from the European Commission . |
| 17 | No one can deny that the Council has done a great deal to improve the quality of education . |
| 18 | In Britain , archaeology has thrown a great deal of light on the Dark Ages : but British students , when they turn to the ninth-century Continent , are in for a disappointment , for relatively little has been done . |
| 19 | The postwar period has seen a great rise in ethnicity ; starting in the 1950s with areas peripheral to France and Spain and continuing in the 1960s with Britain 's ‘ Celtic Fringe ’ . |
| 20 | Marketing has spawned a great deal of ‘ mumbo-jumbo ’ but its prevailing theme is people , at the heart of our business are the children and their parents and the community that we all serve . |
| 21 | The author has condensed a great deal of material into just over 400 pages and presents it in a reasonably readable style . |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman has done a great deal during his period in the House for disabled people and everyone in the House admires him for what he has done , but he must know that there have been dramatic improvements in recent years in the scope , range and value of benefits and in the number of disabled people who receive them . |
| 23 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has spent a great deal of his speech talking about the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 24 | Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " . |
| 25 | The Food Magazine has achieved a great deal in a very short time , and the national press regards it as a reliable source of information . |
| 26 | Women 's participation in the movement has developed a great awareness about women 's particular needs , in terms of nurseries , the socialization of domestic work , etc . |
| 27 | Organised by Lingotto Fiere , this exhibition has invested a great deal of its hopes in a rigorous vetting system which is intended to bring the level of buyer reassurance up to that , for example , of the Grosvenor House Fair . |
| 28 | ‘ Her royal example has meant a great deal . ’ |
| 29 | Certainly , the British attitude towards sex has excited a great deal of continental mirth for a long time , especially Latin mirth , I think . |
| 30 | By the judicious application of support in the areas where it could be most effective , government has done a great deal for the industry . |