Example sentences of "[verb] a great [noun] to say " in BNC.

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1 The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’
2 The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts .
3 Kirsten Matz , Expressen 's money page editor , said : ‘ It proves that sheer luck has a great deal to say about the stock market . ’
4 The Bible does n't have a great deal to say about boys and girls going out with girls and boys .
5 So you would n't accept that your work is phallocentric , that it does n't have a great deal to say to women ?
6 Marx , although he did not have a great deal to say about the movement of individuals between classes , did on several occasions note the possible effects of such movement .
7 You 'll have a great deal to say to each other , wo n't you ?
8 Laura was greatly amused by Hockney but the pair did not have a great deal to say to one another .
9 121 , as to which Parke B. , in Cooper v. Parker ( 1855 ) 15 C.B. 828 , said , ‘ Whenever the question may arise as to whether Down v. Hatcher is good law , I should have a great deal to say against it , ’ yet there certainly are cases in which great judges have treated the dictum in Pinnel 's Case as good law .
10 If we were to have dialogue , if dialogue were to be opened between us and I am now talking about dialogue and not of debate , then erm it is only erm , I 'm certain that there would be a great deal to , to say to him from us on our part , and I am also sure that he will have a great deal to say .
11 The laws of war ought to have a great deal to say about , or rather against , the use of nuclear weaponry .
12 Oh yeah , thought Henry grimly as he passed 4021a , his coffee threshing around dangerously in its plastic beaker , and Henry Farr had a great deal to say to Ian McEwan as well .
13 They always had a great deal to say , for they knew one another so well .
14 How to define the topic for discussion is obviously a difficult one , as Nash admitted in his own study , which had ostensibly a broader subject for its title , but which also had a great deal to say about jokes .
15 I have a great deal to say .
16 ‘ We have a great deal to say .
17 I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations .
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