Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a great [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One minute before the break Dundee had a great chance to equalise when Dodds broke through , but Maxwell got a hand to the attempted lob . |
| 2 | The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’ |
| 3 | Oh yeah , thought Henry grimly as he passed 4021a , his coffee threshing around dangerously in its plastic beaker , and Henry Farr had a great deal to say to Ian McEwan as well . |
| 4 | We can now account moreover for the observation made by Poutsma ( 1923 : 41 ) that a perfect infinitive is always preceded by to when used with a verb of perception : ( 50 ) Mr Lorry observed a great change to have come over the doctor ( and not *observed a great change have come over the doctor ) . |
| 5 | As a bowler at Middlesex , Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to . |
| 6 | Charles did a great deal to assist the lot of the Lombardian peasantry whose lives had fared badly during the conflicts that succeeded the Renaissance . |
| 7 | Clapham was a committed negotiator , and Kerr did a great deal to assuage the anxieties that existed in the NCDAD and its institutions . |
| 8 | Writers such as C. P. Taylor , David Halliwell , Peter Nicols , Caryl Churchill and Louise Page have a great deal to offer . |
| 9 | ‘ Michael has a great determination to do everything himself and get it right , ’ said Watkin . |
| 10 | Stable-mate Sillars Stalker looks a great bet to complete a double for Mrs Ramsden in the Cystic Fibrosis Research Cup . |
| 11 | Howard feels a great need to talk in Spanish . |
| 12 | Many of the colleges with which CNAA committees and visiting parties were dealing — including the new polytechnics — had traditions of autocratic management which the DES did a great deal to undermine with the notes for guidance it issued in connection with the proposed designation of polytechnics . |