Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Cook has introduced a £1 deposit offer to try to capture a greater share of early summer holiday sales . |
| 2 | He finds the village roads with their mud ruts , gullies to cross and general hostility to smooth travel a great strain . |
| 3 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |
| 4 | Councillors may visit the Home Secretary later in the year to ask him to consider funding a greater proportion of the cost of the investigations , but chairman of the Police Committee , John Collins , warned they were unlikely to receive more than half of the sum . |
| 5 | The consequences of levelling it , providing a cover for perennial ryegrass and keeping people off — that is , changing it from land requiring little management to land requiring a great deal — needs to be very carefully assessed . |
| 6 | Mary Leapor appears to have given a great deal of thought to Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance . |
| 9 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 10 | Those communities which did not receive franchises seem to have suffered a greater degree of extortion , as their lords strove to recover some of the profits they were losing elsewhere . |
| 11 | Feargal seems to have said a great deal . |
| 12 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 13 | The Gothic , a more formidable opponent , might have been expected to have had a greater impact on the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 14 | This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 15 | He continued to hope that he and the king could work together and , strangely enough , he seems to have had a great deal of personal sympathy with the king . |
| 16 | This seemed to him , and to me , to have become a great issue of conscience . |
| 17 | It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering . |
| 18 | On the other hand , she comforted herself , the modern Dane , from what she had read and the little she had seen , appeared not to have inherited a great deal from his pillaging ancestors ! |
| 19 | He was angry with the Colonel , who seemed to have taken a great deal upon himself . |
| 20 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 21 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |