Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [art] great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This represents a great achievement in the middle of a recession and says much for the hard work of everyone involved . |
| 2 | This represents a great deal of frustration , a sense of failure and a lot of parental income felt to be wasted . |
| 3 | It seems a more unlikely plant than most to be a herb , but the whole of it , leaves , stems etc. , consist of about 30 per cent mucilage , and this has a great number of medicinal applications , known for many centuries . |
| 4 | This has no great significance at the present moment when both Departments are housed within the Register House complex and only small inconvenience and delay result . |
| 5 | This has the great advantage of allowing local history materials to be used . |
| 6 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 7 | This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married . |
| 8 | In a crucial explanatory passage the narrator tells us : This marks a great step in Lok 's intellectual development . |
| 9 | This varies a great deal from food to food . |
| 10 | Although this varies a great deal from patient to patient , all post-operative patients are likely to have some degree of anxiety and/or pain . |
| 11 | The economies of both Britain and France are currently undergoing major changes , and in both countries , this requires a great deal of flexibility in their respective labour forces . |
| 12 | This requires a great deal of homework as they must have a solid rock of knowledge about the collections or an exhibition before they can talk in a relaxed and informative way . |
| 13 | This sounds a great deal of money but was the same amount that the world spent on weapons in four hours and ten minutes . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , all this takes a great deal of time and money . |
| 15 | Many teachers try to compile their own programmed texts , but it must be said that this takes a great deal of time to prepare . |
| 16 | This takes a great deal of effort because simply having the potential for a greater reproductive success in females does not necessarily mean that they actual have ha actually have greater reproductive success . |
| 17 | This takes a great deal of time , as we then have to give the draft to them , and they type it out and have it duplicated for the classes . |
| 18 | A given species or even genus tends to specialize in that at the same time in the same area , the same plant species is exploited , and this takes a great toll of water-dispersed seeds such as rubber . |
| 19 | The winner of the arrow at the end of the meeting becomes captain of the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ for the following year and this entails a great deal of responsibility . |
| 20 | This means a great deal of money is spent on fuel imports — particularly oil . |
| 21 | It is often said that most congenital abnormalities are untreatable , but this overlooks the great contribution of tertiary prevention , and surgical techniques are constantly improving . |