Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] a great " in BNC.
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| 31 | And although there has been a great deal of argument as to the cause , very few people would deny that Britain is in a state of decline . ’ |
| 32 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 33 | With foodstuffs , for example , there has been a great deal of trial and error over many millennia to determine whether a given animal or plant provides desirable food . |
| 34 | We could have what you English call ‘ fun ’ … and I do not think there has been a great deal of that commodity in your life so far . |
| 35 | Following South Africa 's reintroduction there has been a great deal of discussion about whether the ban on Mike Gatting and his fellow ‘ rebel ’ tourists should be lifted . |
| 36 | It is difficult , however , to accept the concept of work which is non-profit-making or which may even cost the providing employer a substantial amount of on-going revenue funds , and until now there has been a great reluctance to fund such initiatives . |
| 37 | There has been a great deal of literature on the subject in the past ten years , and the situation has not remained static during that time . |
| 38 | Finally , there has been a great deal of direct action , from the blockading of clinics by groups like Operation Rescue to prevent women from gaining access , to the bombings of clinics in the mid-1980s by groups like the Army of God . |
| 39 | In both Britain and the United States there has been a great deal of debate on the question of police accountability . |
| 40 | But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing . |
| 41 | For several decades , however , there has been a great deal of controversy among Marxist scholars about the theory of modes of production , the base/superstructure model , and the relation between the structural characteristics ( including contradictions ) of a particular form of society and the conscious actions of social classes and other groups , which has led to quite extensive revisions of Marxist theory , and in some cases to a critical reassessment of fundamental concepts in the theory ( Bottomore , 1992b ) . |
| 42 | A major campaign was launched regarding the wearing of cycle helmets and there has been a great response , favourable response to this , cutting down enormously under a number of fatal accidents involving pedal cyclists . |
| 43 | There has been a great national exercise , co-ordinated by the careers service nationally and by my Department , to establish the true position . |
| 44 | The second fact is that there has been a great deal of obfuscation and obstruction from the United States in the negotiations . |
| 45 | It is worth noting — and I say this for the benefit of my hon. Friend the Minister if for no one else 's benefit — that there has been a great deal of hyprocrisy on the part of the Labour party in Thurrock and Basildon concerning the centralisation of casualty services at Orsett . |
| 46 | There has been a great deal of national publicity about the plans of the Labour-controlled Nottinghamshire authority to close 12 old peoples ' homes . |
| 47 | Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it . |
| 48 | During my 20 years of practice in the law , there has been a great deal of vehicle taking , in precisely the kind of circumstances that led to the promulgation of the Bill by the Government . |
| 49 | They may not always have turned up with what teachers would have wished , but I am sure that there has been a great acceptance of the way in which they have carried out a very difficult task . |
| 50 | There has been a great outcry in Cwmbran about its possible closure . |
| 51 | It seems but yesterday that the Bill was given its Second Reading on 26 November , yet there has been a great deal of debate of its contents . |
| 52 | In recent years , there has been a great deal of interest in increasing the prominence given to science teaching during the primary school years . |
| 53 | There has been a great improvement in the range of goods and cards , I 'm sure you 'll all have noticed it too . |
| 54 | Hosts : Horses and donkeys Site : Caecum and colon Species : For many years there has been a great deal of confusion in the classification of this group of parasites and in a recent revision it has been proposed that the genus Trichonema be discarded and replaced by four genera , namely Cyathostomum , Cylicocyclus , Cylicodontophorus and Cylicostephanus , these being collectively referred to as cyathostomes . |
| 55 | There has been a great deal of change in European Securities Exchanges , much of it on the lines of London 's Big Bang ( abolition of fixed commissions in Paris , for example ) , and much of it with a view to maintaining or gaining business . |
| 56 | There has been a great deal of interest in the Stirling CWIS . |
| 57 | However , as educational standards have improved , there has been a greater awareness of mental handicap in children , and improved medical skills have led to more research into its causes . |
| 58 | And it must be said that while there has been a greater interest in ferreting and in the shooting side of rabbiting the netting interest has declined . |
| 59 | There has been a greater emphasis on cosmic perspectives generally — such as the ‘ panspermia ’ theory ( the notion that the ‘ seeds ’ of organic life drifted to Earth from outer space ) — to explain both the origin of life on Earth and the frequent recurrence of plagues and viruses which have taken their toll of life in the past . |
| 60 | In Britain and America , there has been a greater variety of attitudes reflecting a wider diversity of theological stances . |