Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 2 | i ) Films of risky junctions tend to contain a great deal of information related to risk . |
| 3 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 4 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |
| 5 | Accordingly , the researcher needs to know a great deal about likely extraneous factors so that they can be controlled . |
| 6 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 7 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |
| 8 | With this in mind , in the following chapter , I begin my account of modern social anthropology by showing what illumination this approach brings to beliefs which at first sight appear to require a great deal of explanation . |
| 9 | You see , I have come to experience a great truth of life : love . |
| 10 | This presents more difficulties for the researcher , who has to do a great deal of interpretation in order to make inferences from what people actually do to their motivations for doing it . |
| 11 | But , if you are one of those people who has to read a great deal — in connection with your job or because you are studying — then you will soon begin to appreciate the benefits of being able to read more quickly . |
| 12 | The turner still has to hold a great juddering chisel in his hands and relies on a good eye and a steady hand to ensure a true cut . |
| 13 | … He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what . |
| 14 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 15 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 16 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 17 | This lamp , through its ability to reduce explosions , was claimed to produce a great improvement in the working conditions that the miners had to endure . |
| 18 | An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might . |
| 19 | erm we do n't expect to see a great change in that . |
| 20 | Fen seemed to know a great deal about the area , and as they ate their sandwiches , served with a generous helping of salad , he talked continuously , so unlike his normal taciturn self that Robbie suspected he was steering clear of more personal and controversial topics . |
| 21 | By doing so I hope to provide a great example for others to follow and to leave my name and footprints in the history of my school . |
| 22 | There are two puppy opens , with Williams ' ever-improving Arfur Daley , a recent open winner at Brough Park , looking to have a great chance alongside Gordon Rooks ' Movealong Sharp and Tommy Robinson 's Just Right Air . |
| 23 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 24 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 25 | At the higher frequencies chosen , the cells need to be made much smaller but have the benefit that the telephones can be built to need a great deal less power . |
| 26 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 27 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 28 | It has an innocent enough title — The Needs of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers from their Medical Departments in the 1990s — and in it he very reasonably argues that an increasingly sophisticated public , provided with alarming insights concerning drugs like Opren and thalidomide by such philosophical weeklies as the Sunday Times , is going to demand a great deal more information about the many medicines doctors so recklessly prescribe , ( Those are n't quite the terms he uses , by the way . ) |
| 29 | The one thing that John Milton knew from the moment when he first began to reflect on his destiny , was that he was going to write a great poem . |
| 30 | The opposite bank — which stands for success — seems very near but between where we stand and the opposite bank there is a ravine which is going to absorb a great deal of money . |