Example sentences of "[verb] a great [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Basil , my five-year-old has also been working , as he has a great deal to learn to ensure he will begin his eventing career in March filled with confidence . |
| 32 | The further expansion of that excellent scheme has a great deal to recommend it , but the hon. Gentleman must make representations to Glasgow district council , which has been allocated more than £101 million this year in respect of housing revenue account for capital investment . |
| 33 | Now , he says , he has a great desire to write . |
| 34 | No one can deny that the Council has done a great deal to improve the quality of education . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 37 | On the distinction between education and training , we have done a great deal to bring together the best of education and of training . |
| 38 | The United states has done a great deal to blur the barrier between the bomb and the watt . |
| 39 | Your recordings of Strauss 's orchestral works have become something of a legend , including works like the Sinfonia Domestica and the Alpine Symphony , which you have done a great deal to rehabilitate in public esteem . |
| 40 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the Government have done a great deal to assist the Scottish economy . |
| 41 | Second , we can do a great deal to explain what is going on within the funeral service — the symbolism , the words used , the belief that lies behind some of the things said . |
| 42 | The development of the national curriculum will do a great deal to stimulate more interest in science because more pupils will have to sustain well-judged scientific programmes of study until at least the age of 16 . |
| 43 | I have in mind such measures as coverage , timeliness , accuracy , ease of use , and so on , all of which if assessed and publicised by library and information professionals would do a great deal to improve the overall standard of business information sources . |
| 44 | Obviously we can not choose our parents but we can do a great deal to improve the shape , form and texture of these problem areas . |
| 45 | Perhaps most importantly , a clear statement of the Government 's interest could do a great deal to improve industry 's poor image in the eyes of the media and of young people , a factor which has made a major contribution to our failure as a nation to make the best of our reserves of natural talent . |
| 46 | I hope that the education measures that are enshrined in the citizens charter will do a great deal to improve standards for our children . |
| 47 | That type of change would enable one to say honestly that a redirection of the money already spent could do a great deal to improve the situation of farmers . |
| 48 | It is clear , first of all , that we can do a great deal to restore damaged waterways by using common sense and good engineering . |
| 49 | Does he agree that more special constables would do a great deal to reduce levels of crime , particularly if they were better trained and more adequately remunerated ? |
| 50 | I hope that the changes in the Somerset Levels will do a great deal to ensure that the area is much improved for wading birds . |
| 51 | An understanding and patient wife can do a great deal to help . |
| 52 | The spiritual resources of patients can do a great deal to help in their recovery or bring about a peaceful death . |
| 53 | That aspect of the parents charter will do a great deal to help . |
| 54 | You can do a great deal to prevent problems of disobedience and pre-empt countless confrontations if you establish useful routines and personal habits for your child to follow : |
| 55 | As the Rev. Septimus Hansard , the Rector of Bethnal Green , testified to the Select Committee on the issue : ‘ I think that it [ the Married Women 's Property Bill ] would raise the social condition of the wife considerably in the eyes of her husband ; as she is , practically , the great educator of the working classes , I think it would do a great deal to raise her ’ . |
| 56 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
| 57 | BRITISH Muslims have missed a great opportunity to turn public opinion against Salman Rushdie , an Islamic scholar said yesterday . |
| 58 | So you did feel a great urge to conceive or bear a child yourself ? |
| 59 | This will again provide a great opportunity to travel on some of the MRT historic rolling stock . |
| 60 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |