Example sentences of "[vb -s] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It makes the heart pump blood faster ( we have all felt the pounding and racing of our hearts when we are roused ) ; dilates the airways of our lungs ( so we can breathe faster ) ; and causes a great increase in the release of energy — by breaking down glycogen ( the form in which glucose is stored ) for muscles , and fat ( from fat storage depots ) for the rest of the body . |
2 | The most common beginner 's mistake is to sit too far aft in the boat and that causes a great wrist a tail of to come up from the trunk . |
3 | This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married . |
4 | They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives . |
5 | Like a chariot , the Pump Wagon causes a great deal of damage as it charges but the effect is even more extreme due to the destructive power of the crunching roller at the front . |
6 | Spiritual and organisational precursors are also fully dealt with , though some may find the inclusions and conclusions rather fanciful — indeed , this subject causes a great deal of disagreement even in official circles . |
7 | These procedures should be manag you know part of management consultation , not part of the Dave writes it , if he like says , well that 's what we 'll do for B E S , and then , and then I 'm told , oh , that 's what we do for B E S , I tell staff , and that causes a great deal of unrest in staff . |
8 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
9 | If this is the case then society and organisations , far from being pluralist in nature , are , in fact , elitist so that on any given issue there may be a small group that exercises a great deal of power . |
10 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
11 | ‘ The Bill covers a great deal of ground , ’ says Committee Chairman , Philip Williams . |
12 | Your playing also incorporates a great deal of chromatic tones … |
13 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
14 | Different sociologists have adopted these different views , and others fall in between , but it is certain that any theory of stratification owes a great debt to Marx 's account of classes , even if the sociologist ends up rejecting Marx as mistaken or overtaken by history . |
15 | Its present appearance today owes a great deal to the Duke of Marlborough who in 1704 remodelled the town . |
16 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
17 | Like Brahms 's Haydn Variations ( to which it owes a great deal ) , the work was originally published in two versions , one for full orchestra , the other for two pianos with a different final variation . |
18 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
19 | she owes a great deal , not only to her natural gifts , but to your tuition . |
20 | But his recovery also owes a great deal to his personal courage . |
21 | All these changes fall well within the observation that ‘ political activity in its contemporary form ’ owes a great deal to the existence and practices of the mass media . |
22 | The theoretical position underlying these interpretations is broadly described as ‘ monetarism ’ , a doctrine which owes a great deal to two American economists , Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman . |
23 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
24 | This family of views , which derives from many of the same commitments as its predecessors , but owes a great deal to the development of the computer , has among others the rather unenlightening labels functionalism , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , and artificial intelligence-several of which labels obviously have other uses . |
25 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
26 | Even a writer as far removed from the field covered in this book as John Le Carré owes a great deal , in all but his latest work , to the blueprint detective story . |
27 | Clearly the improvement of the unemployment situation in Scotland during the 1970s owes a great deal to the new employment opportunities created by the discovery of North Sea oil , whereas the political troubles in Ireland have had an adverse effect on the local employment situation there . |
28 | Clearly , the special character of the National Health Service structure owes a great deal to the strength of special interests , though its reorganization in the 1970s owed much to ‘ managerial ’ thinking . |
29 | This idea of the innovative power of movements obviously owes a great deal to the events of the 1960s when there appeared quite suddenly large-scale movements expressing profound discontent with , and opposition to , the existing social and political order . |
30 | The expansion of middle-income purchasing power owes a great deal to England 's unique rate of urban growth . |