Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 2 | In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) . |
| 3 | The common law has not proved a great source of procedural protection for aliens . |
| 4 | Since the Root Thesaurus did not emerge until 1981 , it has not had a great impact on existing thesauri to date , but it could well be important in the future . |
| 5 | It also shows women are over-represented in education , languages and literature and music/drama/art/design , whereas men are over-represented in engineering and technology and science , and that this pattern has not changed a great deal over the period , despite attempts to even out the balance , and in particular to attract more women on to science and technology courses . |
| 6 | Up to now , the patch of land off Whessoe Road has n't had a great deal going for it . |
| 7 | In the winding it 's just their lot has n't changed a great deal . |
| 8 | I quote the 1986 agreement under which the industry agreed ’ to take special care to ensure that their advertising and promotion does not represent a greater attraction to young people than to the population as a whole . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ A contract does not make a great deal of difference . |
| 10 | The use of the word ‘ lawful ’ to qualify the public meeting in question does not add a great deal . |
| 11 | The right hon. Member for Worcester has said in characteristically self-deprecating phrases that he does not have a great desire to be remembered but I am sure that , given his record , he will take it as an accolade to be thought of , in H. L. Mencken 's happy phrase , as a politician who could sit on the fence and have both ears to the ground at the same time . |
| 12 | Why , when G E C had all the expertise to do this and Deutsch Aerospace frankly , does not have a great deal of background in this . |
| 13 | It does not seem a great return for all the time and money expended . |
| 14 | It does not require a great deal of specialist training other than in counselling skills and is based on common sense . |
| 15 | It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness . |
| 16 | As James graphically put it , in every moral decision ‘ some part of the ideal is butchered ’ It does not require a great deal of insight to appreciate the significance of James 's theory for the judicial process . |
| 17 | respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I |
| 18 | As Phyllis says , it does n't cost a great deal and Oxford has a reputation — students come from all over the world to Oxford . |
| 19 | Move on now to look at an area that 's er not frequently er does n't impinge a great deal on life in this country but it certainly does for travellers and for many people in the developing world . |
| 20 | The Bible does n't have a great deal to say about boys and girls going out with girls and boys . |
| 21 | So you would n't accept that your work is phallocentric , that it does n't have a great deal to say to women ? |
| 22 | He does n't say a great deal but he thinks a lot . |
| 23 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 24 | Well it does n't require a great deal does it . |
| 25 | It does n't require a great bite of imagination to see that the Germans for example would have been extremely reluctant to have been involved in a four nation project with a nuclear capability available as part of it . |