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 ‘ No , but your cleavage looks a great place to rest my head , ’ he grinned .
4 Stable-mate Sillars Stalker looks a great bet to complete a double for Mrs Ramsden in the Cystic Fibrosis Research Cup .
5 ‘ Michael has a great determination to do everything himself and get it right , ’ said Watkin .
6 The agency has a great ability to retain its clients .
7 Where it is good , it has a great ability to draw people into church .
8 ‘ British business now has a great opportunity to expand into overseas markets and to replace imports at home .
9 As a bowler at Middlesex , Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to .
10 Christine McCracken , her teacher at St Bartholomew 's school in Haslemere , Surrey , said : ‘ She has a great hunger to communicate and understand . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts .
16 Kirsten Matz , Expressen 's money page editor , said : ‘ It proves that sheer luck has a great deal to say about the stock market . ’
17 He still has a great deal to teach us ,
18 There have been many criticisms of the Chicago School but this body of work still has a great deal to teach us .
19 Someone who has a lot of overt status has a great deal to do : their time and attention are very precious .
20 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 ?
21 This subtle shift has a great deal to do with the current fashion accessory of an eligible husband rather than an eligible boss .
22 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
23 PAMELA : That poor gentleman has a great deal to mend in himself before he can begin such a practice in his family .
24 The E2L teacher has a great deal to offer subject specialists about the language approaches and assessment of the subject .
25 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 .
26 But it is by no means uninteresting , and the topic has a great deal to offer the English language student .
27 Cardiff bay has a great deal to offer Wales in the way of prestige projects , for example .
28 As a city it has a great deal to offer — especially to someone like myself who works in the rag trade .
29 Sir Ralph Halpern believes our manufacturing industry has a great deal to learn from labels such as Benetton and Hennes in Europe , and The Gap , Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein in the States , in terms of creating brand and image .
30 Returning to our personality types , the giver has a great deal to learn from the saying , ‘ blessed are those who mourn ’ .
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