Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they expressed a great liking for the friendly , relaxed atmosphere of their school , they were , nevertheless , critical that it was often too lax . |
| 2 | It is also true that many older people , who were trained rigorously in the disciplines of study fashionable before 1960 , think that they know a great deal about language , but in fact imbibed many false notions from their schooling . |
| 3 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
| 4 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 5 | Thus , older workers were more than twice as likely as those under 40 to say that they had a great deal of respect for the top management at the firm ( 72 per cent ) . |
| 6 | He they knew that they had a great sense of the weather themselves after being out in it . |
| 7 | He would just say that they evoked a great warmth in him . |
| 8 | A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt. |
| 9 | Following the success of Tracy Edwards and her Maiden crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race , women involved in yachting are realising that they have a great chance to attain their sailing goals . |
| 10 | For example , the sailing ship Thomas Bell , which left Funchal on 8 November 1887 and arrived in Hawaii on 14 April 1888 ( 156 days via Cape Horn ) , had 400 emigrants on board and they suffered a great deal from sea-sickness and hunger . |
| 11 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 12 | He was an implacable enemy of Ted 's , from the 1 950S when Ted had been Chief Whip , and they had a great row . |
| 13 | Every one is different , everyone has its own pattern of possible rat runs and they take a great deal of er er |
| 14 | There 's a lot of adrenalin flowing , and erm they realise that there are pink bodies on the line , and they take a great deal of care in preparing the outfit before they go . |
| 15 | The point is that they think differently from us ; and we and they make a great team . |
| 16 | These creatures are the heavy armoured tanks of the insect world and they spend a great deal of their time on the ground , barging their way through the vegetable litter , scrabbling in the soil or gnawing into wood . |
| 17 | ‘ In Byrne , Sunderland have a player who could supply that sort of brilliance and they have a great Cup tradition , too . |
| 18 | on the right there , and they have a great rack full of plants standing there . |
| 19 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 20 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 21 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 22 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 25 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 26 | We have dealt at some length with these important , if abortive , proposals because they throw a great deal of light on the complexities surrounding the financial control and management of public sector higher education and because they have influenced the subsequent debate concerning the need for some form of central control . |
| 27 | A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation . |
| 28 | All agree that this has enormous advantages as they learn a great deal from one another and are better able to serve the needs of the group in other contexts as well as that of joint provision . |
| 29 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |