Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , er , er , er no doubt that all of your Lordships have throughout the last hour and forty minutes felt a great deal of sympathy with the Noble Earl Lord |
| 2 | apart from that , on which the County Council placed a great deal of weight . |
| 3 | Trusts marked a great advance in the enforcement of obligations in favour of third parties . |
| 4 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 5 | To dance to them throughout the night required a great deal of energy and agility . |
| 6 | His spell capped a great day for the Aussies after captain Allan Border ( 110 ) and Mark Waugh ( 112 ) had steered them to 395 in their first innings . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , he knuckled under , but the young man made a great show of being a soldier and the McLaggans went to cool him down . ’ |
| 8 | Mm when he This man told a great load of stories and in fact it began it was really thought true . |
| 9 | There was a notorious example , similar to the one that my hon. Friend has given , which no doubt had a great deal of appeal to young people . |
| 10 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
| 11 | In analysing these three passages in terms of a selection of their stylistic features , we have no doubt lost a great deal by isolating them from their literary context . |
| 12 | Modification of such systems required a great deal of effort . |
| 13 | No , we have in fact done a great deal to conserve our resources here , er and as I say we have treated er something like 500 patients by the end of this year , addition to what we treated in er the previous year , and that can only be as a result of good management , both nursing and medical . |