Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a great [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's aim is evidently to shift the taxation of motorists on to petrol ; this will link the tax more closely to vehicle use , and so provide a greater incentive to economise on fuel . |
| 2 | He was obviously making a great effort to cope with a load of premature responsibility . |
| 3 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 4 | He still has a great deal to teach us , |
| 5 | There have been many criticisms of the Chicago School but this body of work still has a great deal to teach us . |
| 6 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 7 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
| 8 | They always had a great deal to say , for they knew one another so well . |
| 9 | The Elves still have a great part to play before the final act of their long drama is played out . |
| 10 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
| 11 | I still have a great deal to learn . |
| 12 | These tactics are also used a great deal to achieve the user 's disguised objective . |
| 13 | How to define the topic for discussion is obviously a difficult one , as Nash admitted in his own study , which had ostensibly a broader subject for its title , but which also had a great deal to say about jokes . |
| 14 | The brother-sister marriages of Roman Egypt probably had a great deal to do with the preservation of property and nothing to do with the preservation of genes ( Hopkins , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | They also have a greater tendency to rate themselves as ambitious , highly sexed , strong-willed and well endowed . |
| 17 | ‘ British business now has a great opportunity to expand into overseas markets and to replace imports at home . |
| 18 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |
| 19 | The second was a conviction that many of us had , that we do indeed have a great deal to offer , by way of expertise and consulting , from the campus . |
| 20 | Mr Thornton 's position may be more sympathetically received today , when ‘ paternalism ’ has become a dirty word ; but if , as a later critic was to claim , such philanthropists as Dorothea wished only to fulfil their own personal sentiment of pity and justice , and could not escape the disability of their arbitrary self-appointment , they undoubtedly had a great deal to contribute in the absence of state measures to fill the gap . |
| 21 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 22 | This will again provide a great opportunity to travel on some of the MRT historic rolling stock . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | While night duty therefore affords a greater opportunity to ease , as a later chapter will emphasize , for most ordinary policemen and women this is little compensation for the boredom , for there are fewer opportunities for the diligent to ‘ make work ’ , the reverse process to easing . |
| 25 | 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 . |