Example sentences of "[be] that a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theme of this chapter has been that a great deal of antislavery argument grew out of a fundamental concern for proper order in the world . |
| 2 | The frequent argument of the left is that a greater clarity on the National Curriculum would provide a lever with which to prise out more resources for the schools . |
| 3 | What might , however , be the case is that a greater proportion of people in temporary jobs are " involuntary " rather than " voluntary " temporary workers than a decade or so ago , in other words that the structure of the temporary worker population has changed over time . |
| 4 | If our analysis is valid , one consequence is that a greater proportion of observed health differences in childhood would be associated with socioeconomic variations in circumstances than can be accounted for by conventional social class groupings . |
| 5 | A second lesson is that a greater effort should be made to cushion the poor ( who are often women ) from the hardships that go with adjustment . |
| 6 | And the feeling in Washington is that a great pile of it is lying around ( under the name of Noriega M. ) at banks in London . |
| 7 | But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other . |
| 8 | As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship . |
| 9 | The major disadvantage with audio recorders is that a great deal of contextual information is not recorded and therefore , unless some other method of recording the context , such as note-taking , is employed , it may not be possible to recover a ‘ rich interpretation ’ of the child 's language . |
| 10 | What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ . |
| 11 | My problem is that a great deal of business needs to be done , and I have to try to accommodate that business as well . |
| 12 | The result was that a great deal of effort went into recording the habitats seen to be under threat , and the material collated within the Symposium volume ( Boyd , 1979b ) proved to be of immense value . |