Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United states has done a great deal to blur the barrier between the bomb and the watt . |
| 2 | First the painting community rejected the opportunity to draw a female nude , a subject which over the centuries has inspired the great artists . |
| 3 | Even the perfectionists were impressed and admitted they came away with their tails between their legs having learnt a great lesson about false pride . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 . |
| 5 | Fortunately , the relations between the American and the British peoples have improved a great deal since then . |
| 6 | In addition , the short units have enabled a great variety of topics to be included . |
| 7 | ‘ The homes have generated a great deal of interest . |
| 8 | First , the ‘ European bookseller Year ’ link with the meeting of the EC bookseller associations has drawn a great deal of attention , leading we hope to the largest ever London get-together of European booksellers . |
| 9 | The impact of modern industry TNCs on patriarchal social relations in the developing countries has stimulated a great deal of interesting research in the 1980s ( see , for example , Lim , 1985 ; Nash and Fernandez-Kelly , 1983 ; Garnsey and Paukert , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools . |
| 11 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 12 | The Stotherts have invested a great deal of time in their house . |
| 13 | This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion . |
| 14 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 15 | Three recent significant changes have created a great opportunity to focus research on the health needs of the population . |
| 16 | I would have to say that social conditions have changed a great deal today , going back to what the first |
| 17 | Various pundits and committees have made a great mystery about gluing . |
| 18 | Would you say that things have changed a great deal from the days when you finished your drama school training at Central in 1966 ? |
| 19 | In most Western democracies in the twentieth century , legislatures have lost a great deal of ground to executive branches . |
| 20 | SELF-CATERING holidays have proved the great growth area in the last ten years . |
| 21 | While the procedures have many similarities , the differences have created a great deal of confusion , and it is for this reason that the whole of Chapter 15 is devoted to an explanation of the distinction between arbitration and expert determination . |
| 22 | Estimating the mass of all the matter in the Universe is not an easy task but , in the past few years , many scientists have devoted a great deal of time to it . |
| 23 | Avoiding these foods has produced a great improvement in his behaviour . |
| 24 | AN APPEAL for homes for six unwanted puppies has had a great response . |
| 25 | Sir Steven Brown , the President of the High Court family division said the case involving the children had attracted a great deal of publicity . |
| 26 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 27 | ‘ The children have had a great time . |
| 28 | The House has given a great deal of detailed attention to the Bill , and the promoters and the petitioners have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the case . |
| 29 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 30 | Several people mentioned that fellow students had learned a great deal about many aspects of disability through having them in the peer group . |