Example sentences of "[verb] a great [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time . |
| 2 | Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ . |
| 3 | This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married . |
| 4 | They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives . |
| 5 | Like a chariot , the Pump Wagon causes a great deal of damage as it charges but the effect is even more extreme due to the destructive power of the crunching roller at the front . |
| 6 | Spiritual and organisational precursors are also fully dealt with , though some may find the inclusions and conclusions rather fanciful — indeed , this subject causes a great deal of disagreement even in official circles . |
| 7 | These procedures should be manag you know part of management consultation , not part of the Dave writes it , if he like says , well that 's what we 'll do for B E S , and then , and then I 'm told , oh , that 's what we do for B E S , I tell staff , and that causes a great deal of unrest in staff . |
| 8 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
| 9 | Although their long galleries and multitude of rooms provided a greater degree of privacy for the gentry families , the homes were still very much public places , the more so according to the rank of the owner . |
| 10 | He also provided a great deal of material assistance to the poor and needy . |
| 11 | Once the research had established the physics of these losses — and provided a great deal of general information or the physics of plasmas — Culham returned to the development of toroidal systems . |
| 12 | Changes in the course occur because of the need to attract a great number of students ; recently there has been a move to introduce a greater element of electronics in the course because |
| 13 | The appeal of St James , and his influence , became for a space immense ; his cockle shell a great mark of prestige and spiritual hope worn by successful pilgrims , or those who wished to be thought so , for centuries to come . |
| 14 | It is worth remembering that only one boat in the tottering Polaris fleet is working ; serious cracks in the cooling systems of the other boats are necessitating a great deal of expenditure and causing much anxiety to the Ministry of Defence . |
| 15 | She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money . |
| 16 | Moreover , both of these groups , while they will need a great deal of outside support in the initial stages , have perhaps more reason to welcome the independence and privacy a single lifestyle gives them than anyone else . |
| 17 | Peter 's situation illustrates the fact that patients who spend very little time in hospital or have minor procedures performed still have anxieties and may need a great deal of help both before and after discharge . |
| 18 | Mr Reynolds for example will need a great deal of preparation for discharge . |
| 19 | You will need a great deal of paper if your notes are to be kept useful . |
| 20 | A person born severely disabled will need a great deal of help in overcoming the effects of the disability , but they will possibly be able to adjust to it better than the person who has enjoyed perfect health and led a full , normal life and is suddenly injured or crippled by disease . |
| 21 | In historical writing you may need a great deal of factual information to support your argument or opinion . |
| 22 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 23 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 24 | If this is the case then society and organisations , far from being pluralist in nature , are , in fact , elitist so that on any given issue there may be a small group that exercises a great deal of power . |
| 25 | We recommend contacting Cedok once you know where you want to go as they can arrange package holidays as well as provide a great deal of information for the independent traveller . |
| 26 | Clothes , too , although essentially intended to protect from the elements , provide a great deal of information about the wearer . |
| 27 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 28 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 29 | Despite these problems , manorial court rolls provide a great deal of information that is of use to the genealogist and they enable the family historian to gain insights into how the local society in which his ancestors lived was administered and to see what disputes arose . |
| 30 | The rise of ‘ put-and-take ’ fisheries has paralleled a great explosion of interest in game fishing ; and as more and more people discover the delights of angling , tackle manufacturers have been quick to cash in on this growing demand . |