Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [adj] deal to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
| 2 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 3 | Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker . |
| 4 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 5 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 6 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
| 7 | His profound psychological insight owed a great deal to a neurotic streak , and it was no accident that one of his contributions to subsequent technical terminology was the term Angst ( ‘ dread ’ ) , and that he published books with such titles as The Concept of Dread , Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death . |
| 8 | Certainly pictorial Futurism owed a great deal to Cubism and was even considered by some to be , like Orphism , an off-shoot of it , although its development was exactly the converse of that of Orphism . |
| 9 | ‘ Adequate resources would have to include extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training , i.e. the staff we have are all needed to run the service ’ … |
| 10 | ‘ Extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training ’ . |
| 11 | Philip had a great deal to be pleased about . |
| 12 | Good food control contributes a great deal to good weight control . |
| 13 | The discipline and meticulous care in HMI writing owed a great deal to the changes introduced during Sheila Browne 's tenure as Senior Chief Inspector . |
| 14 | Although he did not specifically mention Articles Two and Three — which contain the claim — he said the constitution meant a great deal to nationalists in Northern Ireland , and it could not change in advance of an overall settlement . |
| 15 | Many developments owed a great deal to the vigorous encouragement of the ironmaster and local MP , Sir Bernhard Samuelson , who was a patron of technical education and chairman of the Royal Commission on this subject appointed in 1882 . |
| 16 | In this passage the Wordsworthian echoes of subject-matter and vocabulary are remarkable , though I suppose it is worth pointing out that Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen , an ‘ agnostic mountaineer ’ whose interests owed a great deal to the reading of Wordsworth . |
| 17 | His style owed a great deal to the example of Holland as well as to the work of Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | Most journalists agree that the telephone manners of some PR departments leave a good deal to be desired . |
| 19 | The high surface temperatures of Venus owe a great deal to the greenhouse effect . |
| 20 | But the character of the report as it turned out in the end owed a great deal to Sir William Beveridge himself , who determined to make a ‘ crusade ’ out of it for the sake of the achievement of social reform . |
| 21 | It is true that , at first sight , the rescript left a great deal to be desired . |
| 22 | On the other hand , it leads to the admission that in so far as all linguistic theories are provisional and incomplete ( particularly in the sphere of semantics ) , even the best-informed linguistic analysis leaves a great deal to be desired . |
| 23 | Clearly , the special character of the National Health Service structure owes a great deal to the strength of special interests , though its reorganization in the 1970s owed much to ‘ managerial ’ thinking . |
| 24 | The regional policies that have been developed , refined and improved in Britain in the past quarter of a century owe a great deal to the foresight of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deciding to send Lord Hailsham , as he is now , to the north-east to make some progress . |
| 25 | Chinese influence on all aspects of Japanese society and politics was immense , and while this did not preclude friction between the two countries , nor the development of indigenous Japanese cultural traits , many of the institutions , ideas and attitudes important to Japanese history owe a great deal to China . |
| 26 | However , in a reference to the territorial claim in the Irish Constitution to Northern Ireland , Mr Reynolds said : ‘ The present Irish constitutional position means a great deal to the nationalist community in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | The expansion of middle-income purchasing power owes a great deal to England 's unique rate of urban growth . |
| 28 | The collection , besides its dynastic accumulations , does in fact owe a great deal to an ancestor , the aggressive collector Freiherr von Lassberg ( d. 1855 ) who was fired by distant German history and bought widely after the secularisation of religious institutions in the region of Lake Constance . |
| 29 | Throughout its inter-war history , the Conservative Party owed a great deal to Stanley Baldwin who , as Middlemass and Barnes have suggested , was a political giant rather than a political pigmy . |
| 30 | Family meant a great deal to him , obviously , and she had witnessed for herself his kindness and strength . |