Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [art] great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 2 | It did n't make a great occasion for me , though I think the backstage tension did contribute something to the success of the production . |
| 3 | But , I mean , do , to be more realistic , I mean , o , if , obviously if , if all the government took a fifty percent pay cut it still would n't make a great deal of difference ? |
| 4 | So it did n't make a great deal of difference really , you know , you you 'd still got er some jurisdiction over them even though they were the foreman like . |
| 5 | She had intended to return to London that afternoon , but one more night would n't make a great deal of difference . |
| 6 | ‘ Funnily enough , they did n't think a great deal of you ! ’ he snarled . |
| 7 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 8 | They do n't know a great deal at the moment about competitive strategies , marketing strategies , organisational analysis and all the other issues that keep chief executives awake at night . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them . |
| 10 | I do n't know a great deal about flowers , to tell the truth . |
| 11 | ‘ It has always been in the family and we know that James Springhall lived in Cargo Fleet Road , but other than that I 'm afraid we do n't know a great deal about him , or his life in Australia . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap . |
| 13 | Barbirolli 's famously self-indulgent late Debussy recordings , La Mer and the Nocturnes , really do n't show the great man at his best , though there is no denying the conviction and enormous affection which sir John brings to these pieces . |
| 14 | Well , anything that you can do there , erm in in the immediate future would obviously be helpful , to support our case for being considered as the er the er European supplier , erm , and likewise with Italy , Spain , and France , not withstanding that at the moment they do n't do a great deal of business , well Spain does a great deal of business , but I do n't suppose is in a position to do much in in the way of technical support , erm , right , |
| 15 | respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I |
| 16 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 17 | There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it . |
| 18 | Hello John erm firstly I would sympathise with those that erm have been complaining about television programmes , although I erm did n't watch a great deal of television yesterday , I was listening to Radio Oxford actually , but erm from erm Ceefax I noticed that the Neighbours was broadcast twice . |
| 19 | Oh no , no there was , erm it was very utilitarian , very er , were I should think plan would use the I , I do n't think er , I ca n't remember a great deal about utility furniture apart from the fact that we have just this one bedroom suite , but remembering back to the , er we had the bed and the chest , the chest was very plain and very nice , very nice |
| 20 | ‘ It 's very difficult to replace that sort of quality , particularly by clubs who do n't spend a great deal of money . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ We did n't see a great deal of one another , it 's true ; but I was fond of Jay . ’ |
| 22 | Joe did n't see a great deal of his dad during the year , with his trips abroad and everything , so they used to reserve at least one day when they could do things together . ’ |
| 23 | Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly . |
| 24 | Well there 's Diane the hairdresser 's wife whom I do n't see a great deal of but she lives near . |
| 25 | So the normal man in the street wo n't see a great deal until very much nearer the time when it opens next spring . |
| 26 | Our fashions are off to a gentle start with soft neutral colours but do n't miss the great style of the shawl-collared coat by Nina Miklin ( Pattern 3 ) . |
| 27 | Move on now to look at an area that 's er not frequently er does n't impinge a great deal on life in this country but it certainly does for travellers and for many people in the developing world . |
| 28 | We do n't hear a great deal of praise . |
| 29 | However Morris believes the National wo n't take a great deal of winning and reckons that Cahervillahow is one of the best handicapped horses in the race on 10st 11 . |
| 30 | Erm , having said that , I think lecturers tend to accumulate these things over time and this is the first year I 've run this course so I do n't have a great stock of things I can I can show you . |