Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 2 | And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise . |
| 3 | As we shall see in Chapter 5 , this is a large and complicated area of discussion about which a great deal has recently been said . |
| 4 | As for the possible-worlds view , of which a great deal might be said , it too seems to involve an unanalysed notion of law , although the matter is more obscure here . |
| 5 | ( That there were actual preliminary deme elections to determine which names went forward to the ballot is unlikely given that fourth-century Attic oratory , of which a great deal survives , is wholly silent about such elections — although the new Thorikos text , for instance ( p. 111 ) , shows that there were some elections at deme level . ) |
| 6 | What Abraham receives instead is a command , ‘ Go from your country and your kindred and your father 's house to the land that I will show you ’ , and promises : ‘ And I will make of you a great nation , and I will bless you , and make your name great , so that you will be a blessing . |
| 7 | I am suggesting an arrangement which I believe might bring both of us a great deal of pleasure . |
| 8 | In Take a girl like you a great sentence falls like the dew from heaven during one of the scenes in Amis when a terminally drunk man endures a sexual turmoil and fiasco , is stunned by a stunning but not very nice girl . |
| 9 | Such an argument misses the point that nuclear reactors bring with them a great deal of technical information , and experience . |
| 10 | Such contact may seriously invalidate an experiment into which a great deal of work and effort has already been put . |
| 11 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |
| 12 | Milosevic carries with him a great charge of evil , but he has a limited mind ; but precisely because he has a limited mind , he was very impressed by that Academy document . |
| 13 | Because clearly an increase in in in the allocation sends a much stronger signal to potential investors and it carries with it a greater degree of certainty as far as the district council 's concerned , as far as potential investors are concerned . |
| 14 | At the same time there is now a more direct intervention in the nature of a school 's educational work through the introduction of the National Curriculum , bringing with it a greater concern for monitoring . |
| 15 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 16 | That explanation comes into it a great deal really . |
| 17 | I am , as you know , not a religious man , but my version of a prayer is to contemplate those placider days , as if by doing it often enough , telling the beads in my mind , I can confer upon them a greater significance , sufficient to obliterate the terrible moment . |
| 18 | However , the hover fly and poached egg association shows clearly that this is a direction in which a great deal of research needs to be done . |
| 19 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 20 | There stretched before him a great expanse of mud-trodden grass , gleaming brokenly like water viewed from a height in the summer sun . |
| 21 | I hope you will feel , as I increasingly felt during the research , that we who play today owe all those before us a great debt of gratitude . |
| 22 | Mrs Singh worried about him a great deal , and was often very angry at his apparent lack of progress . |
| 23 | I 've thought about him a great deal and have a plan he might find useful . |
| 24 | But I think about him a great deal . |
| 25 | Ken was a great fan of the then Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Ramsey , and talked about him a great deal . |
| 26 | He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument . |
| 27 | He relied on me a great deal because he knew I always knew what to do . |
| 28 | He shouted , so the doctor told Dexter , as if he were crying to someone a great distance away . |
| 29 | Because our conscious memories are selective , because we remember stories that meant something to us , that spoke to us , your answer will reveal to you a great deal about the way you used stories when you were a child . |
| 30 | ‘ She talks to you a great deal . ’ |