Example sentences of "[adv] a great [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suddenly a great relief to be able to speak the truth . |
| 2 | erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married . |
| 3 | Its absence is probably not a great loss to the exhibit , but the museum 's efforts to obtain a sample involved a trip to Munich ! |
| 4 | Cloud still the dominant feature , not a great start to the month I 'm afraid . |
| 5 | All of these have obvious relevance to the running of Expo , but not a great deal to the maintenance of a high tech culture . |
| 6 | On the one hand he was no friend of Mike Martinez , since the latter was always a great threat to Fearnley 's own business , which was based firmly on representing European , and especially top British , golfers . |
| 7 | While there is still a great deal to be done in both these fields , there are few people who are unaware of the terms and what they mean . |
| 8 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 9 | ‘ There is still a great deal to be done both inside the company and within the industry in order to ensure that we secure the right outcome to the 1994 review [ of nuclear power ] . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , we think there is still a great deal to be done before the Bar is adequately recognised abroad , and gains the full benefit of such recognition in the now hugely enlarged international legal markets . |
| 11 | There is still a great deal to be learned about support , and there is no doubt that personal characteristics are also important . |
| 12 | When we are fat , losing weight is important for our health but it is also a great boost to morale to feel more attractive because we have managed to shed surplus pounds . |
| 13 | There is clearly a great deal to be done in understanding the initiating steps in order to effect more marked changes in spoilation resistance . |
| 14 | The whole episode was clearly a great embarrassment to my father , and by the time of that conversation in Lord Darlington 's study , he had long since returned to busying himself as much as ever . |
| 15 | The achievement of qualifying standards was often a great lift to a youngster , said Ian Smith , manager of the Northern region team that finished fifth in the championships . |
| 16 | PC World is also about to introduce low-cost training at its Croydon superstore surely a great boon to anyone who has spent days getting to grips with a user manual the size of a telephone directory ! |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't a great trial to us and we did n't sit sobbing in a comer about it , ’ she says although other pupils remember Diana as a ‘ private and controlled ’ teenager who did not wear her emotions on her sleeve . |
| 18 | ‘ This was evidently a great blow to him , ’ Chamberlain added . |