Example sentences of "has be a great [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals .
2 The Channel Tunnel has been a great source of work , but not profits , in the last five years .
3 And the language and idiom of the broadcasts has dated : ‘ There has been a great deal of soft soap talked about God for the last hundred years .
4 There has been a great deal of correspondence in the trade press and the media concerning the absence of top quality vine fruits from the shops .
5 It is also claimed that there has been a great deal of harassment of Serbs and Montenegrins by Albanian nationalists , who hope to drive them out and establish an ‘ ethnically pure ’ Kosovo .
6 There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais .
7 There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these .
8 Over the past ten years or so there has been a great deal of innovative thinking and impressive empirical investigation in our field and the theory 1 have been reviewing has played its part .
9 There has been a great deal of argument as to what a new enquirer needs to know before or immediately upon making a decision to follow Christ for that decision to be meaningful .
10 He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential .
11 And although there has been a great deal of argument as to the cause , very few people would deny that Britain is in a state of decline . ’
12 With foodstuffs , for example , there has been a great deal of trial and error over many millennia to determine whether a given animal or plant provides desirable food .
13 We could have what you English call ‘ fun ’ … and I do not think there has been a great deal of that commodity in your life so far .
14 Following South Africa 's reintroduction there has been a great deal of discussion about whether the ban on Mike Gatting and his fellow ‘ rebel ’ tourists should be lifted .
15 There has been a great deal of literature on the subject in the past ten years , and the situation has not remained static during that time .
16 Finally , there has been a great deal of direct action , from the blockading of clinics by groups like Operation Rescue to prevent women from gaining access , to the bombings of clinics in the mid-1980s by groups like the Army of God .
17 In both Britain and the United States there has been a great deal of debate on the question of police accountability .
18 But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing .
19 For several decades , however , there has been a great deal of controversy among Marxist scholars about the theory of modes of production , the base/superstructure model , and the relation between the structural characteristics ( including contradictions ) of a particular form of society and the conscious actions of social classes and other groups , which has led to quite extensive revisions of Marxist theory , and in some cases to a critical reassessment of fundamental concepts in the theory ( Bottomore , 1992b ) .
20 The second fact is that there has been a great deal of obfuscation and obstruction from the United States in the negotiations .
21 It is worth noting — and I say this for the benefit of my hon. Friend the Minister if for no one else 's benefit — that there has been a great deal of hyprocrisy on the part of the Labour party in Thurrock and Basildon concerning the centralisation of casualty services at Orsett .
22 There has been a great deal of national publicity about the plans of the Labour-controlled Nottinghamshire authority to close 12 old peoples ' homes .
23 During my 20 years of practice in the law , there has been a great deal of vehicle taking , in precisely the kind of circumstances that led to the promulgation of the Bill by the Government .
24 It seems but yesterday that the Bill was given its Second Reading on 26 November , yet there has been a great deal of debate of its contents .
25 In recent years , there has been a great deal of interest in increasing the prominence given to science teaching during the primary school years .
26 Hosts : Horses and donkeys Site : Caecum and colon Species : For many years there has been a great deal of confusion in the classification of this group of parasites and in a recent revision it has been proposed that the genus Trichonema be discarded and replaced by four genera , namely Cyathostomum , Cylicocyclus , Cylicodontophorus and Cylicostephanus , these being collectively referred to as cyathostomes .
27 There has been a great deal of change in European Securities Exchanges , much of it on the lines of London 's Big Bang ( abolition of fixed commissions in Paris , for example ) , and much of it with a view to maintaining or gaining business .
28 There has been a great deal of interest in the Stirling CWIS .
29 The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part .
30 They may not always have turned up with what teachers would have wished , but I am sure that there has been a great acceptance of the way in which they have carried out a very difficult task .
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