Example sentences of "[verb] for a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many were also planning to change their contracts : 62 per cent were planning to cease a contract that existed the previous year ; 71 per cent to contract with a new provider ; 50 per cent to reduce volume more than 10 per cent with an existing provider and 78 per cent to contract for a greater volume of care per pound spent . |
| 2 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 3 | This is because wines and beers account for a greater proportion ( 76% ) of all consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks . |
| 4 | Every year a number of trailers are rolled over on our roads and trailer accidents account for a great deal of glider repairs . |
| 5 | Tourists from other countries account for a great deal of revenue to some large hotels and therefore a watchful eye is kept on the figure , so that advertising campaigns can be planned to attract foreign visitors . |
| 6 | Stimulating because new ideas , creativity , brain-storming sessions and the prospects of winning make for a great feeling of esprit de corps . |
| 7 | On the question of a separate European " defence identity " , some NATO members reportedly pressed for a greater security role for the nine-country Western European Union ( WEU ) [ see pp. 37212 ; 37931 ] . |
| 8 | Rule 5 The module version has been nominated for a greater period than the nomination latency set in the configuration file . |
| 9 | There has for a great many years been a link of friendship between the people of lslay , particularly of the Rinns , and Ballycastle in the north of Ireland . |
| 10 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 11 | A great deal could be done , even in the present climate of opinion , and example counts for a great deal . |
| 12 | But inevitably , others in the company were pressing for a greater commercial awareness . |
| 13 | On the one hand this can be attributed to an unwillingness by politicians to provide for a greater disclosure of information . |
| 14 | Since the Risorgimento in the nineteenth century , when the movement for political unification had taken place , Italy had experienced hard times and many political humiliations , so in 1929 , when Mussolini ended the friction between the Church and the State by signing a concordat with the Vatican , most people really believed that the country was destined for a great future . |
| 15 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |
| 16 | In addition , the system , when compressed , allows for a greater circulation of air around the foot , keeping it cool and dry . |
| 17 | Static input allows for a greater variety of input formats and makes no requirements about the availability of hardware at the time of writing . |
| 18 | She ran through the woods and only stopped when she reached the fence between the woods and the Botanical Gardens , which spread for a great distance along one side . |
| 19 | The encouragement given made for a great rapport with the class and gave a stimulus to improve the lectures . |
| 20 | If you 're looking for a great highlight to a misty walk , incorporate a visit to a good ruin . |
| 21 | Since the union organisations are part of PRI , they have a dual function : firstly , as a pressure group lobbying for a greater share of social benefits for labour ; secondly , as an apparatus of political control of the working class . |
| 22 | ‘ Appearances count for a great deal in this life , and if you appear tonight in an outfit like the ones you seem to favour then no one will believe our relationship is anything but a business one . ’ |
| 23 | PROFESSIONAL hunters called in by police were today searching for a great white shark that killed a scuba diver on his honeymoon . |
| 24 | Isobel nodded , her lips compressed , and then said : ‘ Yes , that ghastly , fat Humpty Dumpty is heading for a great fall , poor thing . |
| 25 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 26 | Perhaps most disturbing from the point of view of the central authorities , the party organisations in the three republics , particularly in Lithuania , began to press for a greater degree of independence , establishing direct links with outside ruling parties and adopting their own programme and statute , within or if necessary outside the framework of the CPSU as a whole . |
| 27 | At the end of May , , the minister for small companies , called for a greater sense of risk and enterprise in any new market which might succeed the USM and , in emphasising the importance to the country 's economy of smaller-company activity , pointed out that companies with fewer than 20 employees had helped to create 350,000 new jobs between 1989 and 1991 . |
| 28 | He named the food supply crisis as the most important question of all , and called for a great ‘ crusade , against speculators and the ‘ kulak' , that recurring bogeyman of the regime until 1928 . |
| 29 | This called for a great deal of judgement because there are about forty different species of rot , and the damage which they do varies and is not necessarily proportional to the visible effects . |
| 30 | The issue called for a great deal of understanding on both sides , which inevitably in many cases could not be guaranteed . |