Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane found animals a great prop to sanity . |
| 2 | Certainly I think we 're in very great danger of Leeds Bradford , if we start pushing things a great deal more . |
| 3 | Without question , open systems give users a great deal more leverage when negotiating with their suppliers , as Wendler observes , ‘ the keys to a successful migration process are as much political as they are technical . |
| 4 | The USA pressed instead for a full 12-month moratorium on involuntary repatriation in order to give refugees a greater opportunity to take advantage of voluntary repatriation schemes ; the Vietnamese government proposed a nine-month moratorium . |
| 5 | They will then have to get money from the dole or the Benefits Agency , which will cost taxpayers a great deal more on top of the £25 billion that the state is already paying out for the unemployed . |
| 6 | As can be seen from the above it is possible to give questions a greater focus of purpose by considering what process it is that you wish the pupils to go through . |
| 7 | This was to give teachers a greater understanding of the dynamics of their classroom and to enable interdepartmental discussion about how the new Humanities course was working . |
| 8 | It would seem then that if conditions of work were altered in order to give employees a greater control over such factors as the pace at which they work , and the arrangement of their working day around breaks at times which they feel are necessary , then certain improvements may be achieved . |
| 9 | The pact would speed up the privatisation of 4,000 medium-sized and small state enterprises by giving workers a greater say in running them . |
| 10 | Giving employees a greater say in how their companies operate could be an important step towards such a goal , but Laing is opposed to the appointment of worker directors , as is the practice in Scandinavia . |
| 11 | Shortly afterwards a wide range of new channels offered viewers a greater choice of television programmes from sport to movies and from news to music . |
| 12 | There are certain upper class journals that use photographs a great deal , so if you can get a good photograph of something , that will already begin to sell it , in a sense . |
| 13 | In those circumstances , teachers would be likely to offer girls a great deal of encouragement , perhaps more than they previously had done . |
| 14 | The limitation that can now be placed on the child-bearing and child-rearing years gives women a greater choice as to whether to return to work sooner , later or not at all . |
| 15 | It is argued that this gives unions a greater degree of control over their members and greater bargaining strength . |
| 16 | By apparently offering parents a greater choice of schools , these provisions — as indeed those establishing grant-maintained schools — seek to increase their power as ‘ consumers ’ . |