Example sentences of "[verb] a great [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What started out as a potential disaster provided a great opportunity to create something really different . |
| 2 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |
| 3 | The government 's aim is evidently to shift the taxation of motorists on to petrol ; this will link the tax more closely to vehicle use , and so provide a greater incentive to economise on fuel . |
| 4 | " Power " , for example , is an ordinal attribute in which we might want to talk about individuals having " more " or " less " power than others and to reflect this in using the power of numbers to reflect " more " or " less " of some attribute in the same way that a higher number score on a test signifies a greater ability to do the test than a lower number . |
| 5 | ‘ No , but your cleavage looks a great place to rest my head , ’ he grinned . |
| 6 | Stable-mate Sillars Stalker looks a great bet to complete a double for Mrs Ramsden in the Cystic Fibrosis Research Cup . |
| 7 | Some of these now strongly argue that evaluation which is initiated and conducted by teachers in response to their own perceived needs and interests has a greater capacity to promote professional development , because the role of teachers is extended but their autonomy is preserved . |
| 8 | Water has a greater capacity to absorb heat than any other natural material except for ammonia . |
| 9 | The voluntary sector though , has a greater role to play now than ever before , both as advocate and service provider . |
| 10 | ‘ Michael has a great determination to do everything himself and get it right , ’ said Watkin . |
| 11 | The agency has a great ability to retain its clients . |
| 12 | Where it is good , it has a great ability to draw people into church . |
| 13 | ‘ British business now has a great opportunity to expand into overseas markets and to replace imports at home . |
| 14 | As a bowler at Middlesex , Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to . |
| 15 | Christine McCracken , her teacher at St Bartholomew 's school in Haslemere , Surrey , said : ‘ She has a great hunger to communicate and understand . ’ |
| 16 | He does n't find writing ( and he certainly does n't find spelling ) easy , but he has a great need to tell his story . |
| 17 | Anisette is not a liqueur which , speaking at least for myself , one has a great compulsion to swig down in quantity ; in my cupboard a bottle lasts for years . |
| 18 | ‘ I know that people are not going out of their way to create problems but I believe the national side has a great role to play in terms of providing players with status , confidence and a substantially increased market value . |
| 19 | The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’ |
| 20 | The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts . |
| 21 | Kirsten Matz , Expressen 's money page editor , said : ‘ It proves that sheer luck has a great deal to say about the stock market . ’ |
| 22 | He still has a great deal to teach us , |
| 23 | There have been many criticisms of the Chicago School but this body of work still has a great deal to teach us . |
| 24 | Someone who has a lot of overt status has a great deal to do : their time and attention are very precious . |
| 25 | The very ubiquity of the mass media removes media as a whole system from the scope of positivist social analysis ; for how may we ‘ measure ’ the ‘ impact ’ of a social force which is omnipresent within social life and which has a great deal to do with constituting it ? |
| 26 | This subtle shift has a great deal to do with the current fashion accessory of an eligible husband rather than an eligible boss . |
| 27 | no , it was rationed , and er , talking about erm people 's taste having changed , I think the media has a great deal to do with that because when you look at things on television you can see how people |
| 28 | PAMELA : That poor gentleman has a great deal to mend in himself before he can begin such a practice in his family . |
| 29 | The E2L teacher has a great deal to offer subject specialists about the language approaches and assessment of the subject . |
| 30 | If it is agreed that project work has a great deal to offer in terms of developing reading , but recognised that these opportunities tend not to be exploited to the full , it is necessary to examine ways in which project work can be designed to make fuller use of its potential . |