Example sentences of "[vb pp] a great [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Mr Cook has done a great service to the water environment in this country and the ramifications of this case will be heard for many years to come . ’ |
| 2 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 3 | The success of Leapor 's subscription , though on a much smaller scale , probably owed a great deal to this family 's wide social connections . |
| 4 | The rate of decline has owed a great deal to the overall level of employment in the economy , so that year-to-year fluctuations have varied considerably — it has been calculated , for example , that a 1 per cent decline in the national level of unemployment is sufficient to provoke an increase in the outflow of labour from agriculture eight times as large . |
| 5 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |
| 6 | It was ironic indeed ( although , of course , no one mentioned it ) that , having risen to power by lambasting the liberal democracies as " anti-Spain " , Franco 's permanence from the 1950s onwards owed a great deal to the political and economic capital invested in Spain by those same nations . |
| 7 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 8 | The Mill Hill priests who started Sasse in 1939 have made a great contribution to the national life of this young African country . |
| 9 | This work has made a great contribution to our understanding of the subject , although the structural diversity of port wine stains confounds the best attempts at mathematical modelling and there is no substitute for good clinical assessments and comparisons of different laser systems . |
| 10 | He has made a great contribution to anchoring the art of architecture to real life , real science and real modernity … |
| 11 | She has made a great difference to me , she was wonderful . |
| 12 | The sofa bed or studio couch has made a great difference to one-room living . |
| 13 | I had talked a great deal to her about my nights in Marcus . |
| 14 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
| 15 | He added that holding the hostages had " given a great service to the cause of peace " but that the time had come to take a final decision on this " humanitarian issue " . |
| 16 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 17 | He has rendered a great service to humanity by the invention ’ . |
| 18 | Oxford Polytechnic Department of Town Planning , and the University of Bristol School for Advanced Urban Studies , have contributed a great deal to the study of planning restraint in pressured areas and many of the following items concern their work . |
| 19 | and I accept that that nevertheless contributed a great deal to added uncertainty and added unrest in the Highfields area . |
| 20 | During his active career as a painter and teacher David Crone has contributed a great deal to the advancement of contemporary visual art in Ireland and has gained a considerable reputation as one of the most important Irish artists at home and internationally . |
| 21 | This residential healing centre has proved a great blessing to many of my friends . |
| 22 | Whereas the problem of payment of compensation by local authorities to a developer refused planning consent had always proved a great obstacle to effective control , the new situation was that where land was developed , the increase in its value resulting from the grant of planning permission was secured for the community by the imposition of a development charge ( equivalent to 100 per cent of the increase in value ) , to be assessed and collected by a Central Land Board . |
| 23 | This is thanks to handling and power which , to my mind , would have posed a greater threat to the Honda NSX 's title of best-handling car than any Mazda RX-7 . |
| 24 | I also sense that the Shostakovich Tenth Symphony has meant a great deal to you . |
| 25 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 26 | But Colin remained , in Emerson 's own account , very twitchy : winning meant a great deal to him , he was the arch-competitor and in a way he also wanted to take revenge on a track which had both hurt and humiliated him . |
| 27 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |