Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in this sense that Nizan 's revolutionary literature demands a great deal from the reader . |
| 2 | Money matters a great deal to the elderly . |
| 3 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 4 | Islington could have saved its council and charge payers a great deal of money if it had just asked the advice of a local geography teacher and been told that it is better to go to France to learn French . |
| 5 | Using palynological and chronometric dating techniques a great number of cores have been investigated and the flora and fauna of the terminal Pleistocene and of the transition during the early Flandrian in western Europe from tundra to closed deciduous woodland , have been investigated and the major phases distinguished . |
| 6 | I always found the night duties a great strain , and often had to walk up and down outside to clear my head with some fresh air . |
| 7 | But behind the apparently straightforward process of assigning numbers to variants of a variable in such a way as to reflect , reasonably faithfully , their phonetic and social relationships with each other lies a great deal of linguistic , sociological and mathematical abstraction . |
| 8 | Of course , if the discourse analyst experiences a great deal of data like this , he will feel more confident in his description and interpretation . |
| 9 | Writing in PRONED 's 10th annual report , Sir Adrian urges chairmen to adopt a more professional process for selecting NEDs and to give board members a greater say in their appointment . |
| 10 | The areas involved are very large and it will take the oil companies a great deal of time and money to cover them . |
| 11 | In 1981 the Bank of England introduced monetary control arrangements designed to allow market forces a greater role in determining the structure of short-term interest rates . |