Example sentences of "[vb infin] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office . |
| 2 | To till properly , you must know a great deal about every bit of your land — you will find variations between different parts of even one small field — soil texture , structure , acidity , drainage , and history must all be considered ; as must the significance of the life within the soil and its relationship to fertility . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He did not know a great deal about navigation , although he had enough fuel to get to France , but all he had with him was a holdall with a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a sports diary with a map of the world in it . ’ |
| 5 | He said to me on the phone he did n't know a great deal cos he was just getting it all together . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I do n't know a great deal about flowers , to tell the truth . |
| 8 | I hope you will know a great deal more of me before you write my Life . ’ ’ |
| 9 | Well , at least one good thing would come out of this trip , she decided philosophically — she would know a great deal more about Denmark 's capital city by the time she returned to England . |
| 10 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 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 | Moreover , both of these groups , while they will need a great deal of outside support in the initial stages , have perhaps more reason to welcome the independence and privacy a single lifestyle gives them than anyone else . |
| 14 | Peter 's situation illustrates the fact that patients who spend very little time in hospital or have minor procedures performed still have anxieties and may need a great deal of help both before and after discharge . |
| 15 | Mr Reynolds for example will need a great deal of preparation for discharge . |
| 16 | You will need a great deal of paper if your notes are to be kept useful . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd need a great deal more money before I could start up my own stud farm here . |
| 18 | A person born severely disabled will need a great deal of help in overcoming the effects of the disability , but they will possibly be able to adjust to it better than the person who has enjoyed perfect health and led a full , normal life and is suddenly injured or crippled by disease . |
| 19 | In historical writing you may need a great deal of factual information to support your argument or opinion . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Oh I do n't need a great deal cos we 've got plenty of potatoes . |
| 23 | Thus it seemed clear that the lexical representation used for matching should already include a great deal of information about the word 's possible phonetic realisations . |
| 24 | ‘ Let the criminal know , ’ he said , ‘ that hands can assassinate a great soul like that of the martyr , Muawad , but they can not assassinate the enormous national faith which Muawad brought to the presidency . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Let the criminal know , ’ he said , ‘ that hands can assassinate a great soul like that of the martyr , Muawad , but they can not assassinate the enormous national faith which Muawad brought to the presidency . ’ |
| 26 | Send us your top tip , and if it 's the best of the batch , you 'll win a great prize ! |
| 27 | Send us your top tip , and if it 's the best of the batch , you 'll win a great prize ! |
| 28 | With school holidays in mind consider a visit to Van Hage 's garden centre at Great Amwell , near Ware in Hertfordshire , where the rest of the family can enjoy a great day out while you quietly lose yourself in one of the most impressive houseplant departments in the country . |
| 29 | But this test is rather more costly and time-consuming than Gentle 's idea , and one judge felt that the variability in the way babies are normally cared for could introduce a great deal of ‘ noise ’ into the experiment . |
| 30 | It is a vital part of the written records that the exact place where every find was discovered is noted , particularly important because finds can yield a great deal of information . |