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 | 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 ? |
| 4 | In reality , no concatenation of highly talented individuals ever made a great film . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her homage to frankness in her letter to Jim Prior more than five years later caused a great deal of ironic laughter in Whitehall . |
| 7 | Child psychiatrist Dr Dora Black says , ‘ Siblings obviously have a great impact on each other . |
| 8 | But two things still matter a great deal . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Alas , neighbours often know a great deal more than we think they know . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Teachers also received a great deal of support and help from both popular organizations and from communities to ease their situation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Furthermore , despite the diversities of cultures there remains a great deal of commonality . |
| 18 | Young children often show a great interest and delight in their faeces and expect others to do the same . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | While FIFO corresponds most closely to the way in which firms actually use their inventories ( i.e. the oldest stock is used first ) and corresponds to the actual cost paid for inventories , it ignores the fact that to replace the inventories now costs a great deal more . |
| 24 | Although they absorb a little from their first meal , their droppings still contain a great deal of unextracted sustenance . |
| 25 | Whatever it was , it gave them a sense of reverence , and services in these little churches always had a great spirit of worship . |
| 26 | ‘ Mail Newspapers and other newspaper proprietors clearly attach a great deal of importance to maintaining their goodwill and reputation with their readers by exercising careful control over who can advertise in their newspapers and what kinds of advertisements appear there , ’ the judge said . |