Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [verb] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our friend Drummle has won a great prize ! |
| 2 | ‘ David has done a great job over the last few weeks but he still has playing ambitions . |
| 3 | During his active career as a painter and teacher David Crone has contributed a great deal to the advancement of contemporary visual art in Ireland and has gained a considerable reputation as one of the most important Irish artists at home and internationally . |
| 4 | Graham added : ‘ Ray 's got a great engine and he loves to attack . |
| 5 | Having studied the different aspects of the novel in detail , I find that Dickens has created a great novel , perfect in every way . |
| 6 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 7 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 8 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 10 | He 's confident , too , claiming : ‘ Benn has taken a great risk in fighting me because , like Ruddock , he is very predictable and I aim to exploit his lack of variety . |
| 11 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 12 | I think Mr Cook has done a great service to the water environment in this country and the ramifications of this case will be heard for many years to come . ’ |
| 13 | Some observers have suggested that the decline of the village as the main social unit in Japan has produced a greater heterogeneity in the smaller groups which go to make up society as a whole . |
| 14 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 15 | Frank Dick has done a great job with the shorter track events , but there 's a huge difference between those and the distance events . |
| 16 | But Keegan said yesterday : ‘ Steve 's got a great future at Newcastle . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 18 | Although she has had no formal training , Jenny does have a great talent . |
| 19 | SEM has meant a great leap forward , allowing Harris to look for more ‘ critical diagnostic characteristics ’ on the grains . |
| 20 | Alice has made a great difference . |