Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This idea of the innovative power of movements obviously owes a great deal to the events of the 1960s when there appeared quite suddenly large-scale movements expressing profound discontent with , and opposition to , the existing social and political order . |
| 2 | The Elves still have a great part to play before the final act of their long drama is played out . |
| 3 | CIYMS 13 The visitors clearly demonstrated a greater determination in the opening stages and in particular their pack was decisively impressive forcing Portadown unto the defensive . |
| 4 | Does she agree that tobacco companies also contribute a great deal to sport , and that they employ tens of thousands of people directly and indirectly ? |
| 5 | Given the disparate investment pattern in the North Side , which appears to favour areas previously showing a greater tendency to revitalise , and an investment strategy that permits higher income rehabilitators to use government funds for revitalising increasingly fashionable homes , what guides programme investment in an alleged attempt to alleviate deprivation ? |
| 6 | In reality , no concatenation of highly talented individuals ever made a great film . |
| 7 | The country stations also enjoyed a great range of styles , but they escaped the process of repeated renewal which overwhelmed so many large city and town stations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 8 | Her homage to frankness in her letter to Jim Prior more than five years later caused a great deal of ironic laughter in Whitehall . |
| 9 | Intuitively , any wage increase reduced employment and all workers therefore face a greater probability of being unemployed . |
| 10 | Child psychiatrist Dr Dora Black says , ‘ Siblings obviously have a great impact on each other . |
| 11 | It is also likely to vary according to country — employees working in severe climates generally receive a greater amount of leave than those working in more equable climes . |
| 12 | But two things still matter a great deal . |
| 13 | Although rail now has the reliability necessary to support the development of intermodal road/rail freight transport in the UK , now established , productivity and cost structures still leave a great deal to be desired . |
| 14 | British shoppers tend to be ruggedly self-sufficient ; Brooks Brothers customers usually want a great deal of help while selecting the exact same suit they have worn since their fathers first took them to the emporium . |
| 15 | ‘ UK businesses now have a great opportunity in markets both at home and abroad , thanks not just to pound 's depreciation but to their own efficiency gains , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 16 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 17 | The corpses now had a greater value . |
| 18 | ‘ Alas , neighbours often know a great deal more than we think they know . |
| 19 | Squeeze packs therefore have a great deal to commend them but where quantities of wash water requiring dosing are high the amount of detergent thus available is too low . |
| 20 | Enabling service users and supporters — Staff noted that users tended to trust services more because of their relationship with their key worker and that service users generally had a greater say in what they required . |
| 21 | Teachers also received a great deal of support and help from both popular organizations and from communities to ease their situation . |
| 22 | Primary teachers and secondary English teachers regularly impart a great deal of knowledge about language to their pupils and encourage them to make explicit , and to share with others , the implicit knowledge they have already acquired as language users . |
| 23 | Furthermore , despite the diversities of cultures there remains a great deal of commonality . |
| 24 | This group of disturbed children also had a greater persistence of bedwetting . |
| 25 | Young children often show a great interest and delight in their faeces and expect others to do the same . |
| 26 | The earliest surviving parish registers consistently record a greater number of baptisms than burials . |
| 27 | It suggests that translating between languages with different priorities and different types of syntactic restrictions necessarily involves a great deal of skewing of patterns of information flow . |
| 28 | The idea behind such schemes is derived from children 's fostering schemes and although they suit a small minority of less disabled former patients , the hosts normally need a great deal of regular help and support from professionals for the scheme to succeed and there must also be close monitoring and supervision of the quality of care provided . |
| 29 | Given the pervasive influence of the Bank of England over the UK financial system , it is no surprise that later chapters also contain a great deal of further information on its business . |
| 30 | Such approaches probably owe a great deal to consideration of research by the National Children 's Bureau under Dr Mia Pringle and a consideration of children 's needs as well as their rights . |