Example sentences of "[adv] do a great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday . |
2 | Now at the moment the black chemical that 's in there is not doing a great deal . |
3 | He held McAllister 's hand for a little longer than propriety might demand , and the pair of them stood for a moment , rapt , until the surgery boy , who ran the doctor 's errands on his bike , delivered prescriptions and generally did a great deal of donkey work , knocked on the door before he came in , saying excitedly and importantly , ‘ You 're wanted , Dr Neil , sir . |
4 | That first tour did a lot to make the rest of the tours tremendously successful because , with all things like that , if you do play to a small group of people and you still do a great show , then by word of mouth the word spreads how wonderful you were , even though it was n't packed . |
5 | I also did a great deal of amateur acting with the Progress Theatre in Reading . |
6 | ‘ Mabs ’ , as she was affectionately called , also did a great deal of choreography . |
7 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |
8 | Every letter contains a message — it may confirm an order , complain about a late delivery or clarify a point — but it also does a great deal more . |
9 | ‘ She did n't do a great deal else , did she ? |
10 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
11 | Without Gesner and the rest of the cast they could n't do a great deal , but the Maritza scenes with Freddi could be rehearsed and several other small fragments of the three old operettas . |
12 | Well , anything that you can do there , erm in in the immediate future would obviously be helpful , to support our case for being considered as the er the er European supplier , erm , and likewise with Italy , Spain , and France , not withstanding that at the moment they do n't do a great deal of business , well Spain does a great deal of business , but I do n't suppose is in a position to do much in in the way of technical support , erm , right , |
13 | respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I |
14 | There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it . |
15 | The security actually did a great job . |
16 | The security actually did a great job . |