Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 2 | I felt this was totally unjust : the reason I did n't like him was because he was a selfish and violent man who was causing my sister a great deal of misery . |
| 3 | ‘ But not quite so mercenary , and I find it exceedingly distasteful for you to arrogantly assume you might understand my sister a great deal better than I ever could . |
| 4 | The tokens encouraged me in my search a great deal , as did the next find to appear , a 14th century strap-end buckle . |
| 5 | There is at present in my business a great dislike of the bulk chemical businesses , and a great wish on the part of most people to shift out of them . |
| 6 | He had been causing my friend a great deal of trouble , so , to shut him up , he had you make an implant of the man committing a murder . |
| 7 | The family say I take after my mother a great deal in that she could make do and be happy . |
| 8 | He had also a strong sense of humour , which was to her mind a great asset . |
| 9 | Hari knew it was mostly done to help Craig and yet Edward Morris seemed to like her work a great deal . |
| 10 | And there , beneath the back wall , the headstone , the white marble carved into the shape of an oak , its trunk exaggeratedly thick , its crown a great cumulus . |
| 11 | Her father is in the government , her mother a great campaigner for under-privileged children . |
| 12 | His head had dropped forward and over his chest a great mat of blood had spread like a bib . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'll be a real help to the batsmen , and it will do his confidence a great deal of good . |
| 14 | ‘ It gave his life a great boost , ’ said Smith . |
| 15 | For one griffoun there will be flynge to his nest a great hors , or two oxen yoked togidre … he hath talouns so grete upon his feet … so that men maken cuppes of hem to drynke of … |
| 16 | ‘ It does n't strike me that Joe 's dad has given his son a great deal of thought this year , ’ I said , bluntly . |
| 17 | Bob Sillitoe says that since he came back from Kilimanjaro he 's been looking for something else … another challenge … the climbing has given his son a great sense of confidence |
| 18 | The response to this ad has illustrated what many of us suspect these days : there is in our industry a great wealth of under-utilised talent and experience which , far from regarding itself as unemployed and job hunting , is highly entrepreneurial and self-reliant . |
| 19 | ‘ The state it is in at the moment has limited our work a great deal , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming . |
| 21 | ‘ No one will ever dare to slander her again , and besides , I have the feeling — and you know that I am seldom wrong about such things — that that effete swine did our daughter a great hurt . |