Example sentences of "the [noun sg] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |
| 2 | To suggest that it could be or has been ‘ proved ’ by archaeologists is to do the story a great disservice . |
| 3 | At present , the region acts as a clearing house and Lothian region gives the college a great deal of autonomy . |
| 4 | Scientific research and teaching were important at many German universities , although the system was rigidly structured and gave the professor a great deal of power . |
| 5 | ‘ I owe the club a great deal because they took a chance on me , but that does n't mean I will do anything stupid . ’ |
| 6 | His guard , Mr Robert Woodford , aged 23 , explained : ‘ We do n't talk about the crash a great deal . ’ |
| 7 | At the far end of the hall a great pile of earth was growing steadily ; here the Sikhs were trying to dig a well . |
| 8 | One business source said : ‘ He has a low base salary and he has to stand out in the sun a great deal longer before he gets a bonus at the oasis . |
| 9 | In the course of the exercise a great deal of knowledge had been gained about EPH activities and associated problems , and various other changes were made as a result of the investigation . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's offering the boy a great opportunity , ’ agreed Pumblechook . |
| 11 | There is at the moment a greater demand than available parking places and applicants may be placed on a waiting list for a time . |
| 12 | There is at the moment a greater demand than available parking places and applicants may be placed on a waiting list for a time . |
| 13 | If the campaigning parents are in the right , then the headteacher is not fit to continue in post and they are actually doing the community a great service in their courageous attempts to expose the truth . |
| 14 | As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate . |
| 15 | The staff voted the evening a great success and are already thinking of ‘ going down the alley ’ again . |
| 16 | We confide in one another , and talk on the phone a great deal . |
| 17 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 18 | It gives the water a greater sense of depth , and if a bit of liner does become exposed it does n't look so conspicuous . |
| 19 | This was in a state of semi-continuous eruption , with minor explosions taking place every five or ten minutes , showering fragments of pumice 200 metres into the air , and occasionally revealing the cherry-red glow of liquid lava in the crater , while all the while a great banner of steam rose 3,000 metres into the air . |
| 20 | In broad terms it was found that British managements had adopted a control system which relied little upon direct managerial intervention and allowed the workforce a greater say in decision-making , essentially as a recognition of the de facto power of trade unions and shopfloor organisation within the industry . |
| 21 | The reward for encouraging all members of staff to be active participants in the decision-making process , so helping them to develop an ownership of the final policy , is that it gives the policy a greater chance of being fully implemented across the curriculum . |
| 22 | There were drawings , too , rolled aside out of the way , and ranged along the bench a great array of tools , mallets , chisels and punches , from the coarsest to the needle-fine , all their handles polished and worn with use . |
| 23 | Alain 's sharp command had her jerking her head up from her almost frantic study of his mother , and she realised that her fixed stare was embarrassing the woman a great deal . |
| 24 | He , then the most powerful and feared man in western Europe , was being pressured by someone who was the less-than-firmly-established leader of one of the poorest , weakest states in Europe ; who considered Nationalist Spain had done the Axis a great favour in beating communism in the Civil War ; who appeared to have forgotten the extent of German aid in achieving that victory ; who offered to contribute next to nothing to the German war effort ; and who , to crown everything , expected to receive military supplies and territory in return , at best , for vague promises . |
| 25 | On a beach in Bangkok-Ivoire , feeling the sun 's heat pushing light through the grottoes of her muscles and bones , with the sky a great raft of blue , Jezrael watched two girls build a sand-elephant beyond the sun-danced lapping blue of the Indian Ocean . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ In the past a great deal of training has been done on an almost random basis . |
| 27 | The Great War , with the enormous challenges it posed to the assumptions of laissez-faire liberalism , took the role of the State a great deal further . |
| 28 | Was the hazardous code of the duel a greater injustice than the unfairness of the law ? |
| 29 | Tranmere 's fear is that a move inspired by the Pools companies , who pay the League a great deal of money each year , will result in clubs being forbidden to switch fixtures away from the traditional Saturday except where television or the Police demand otherwise . |
| 30 | It was in 1688 that he became a leader of the seven bishops , including Archbishop Sancroft of Canterbury , who refused to ‘ make themselves parties ’ to the two Declarations of Indulgence issued by James II and aimed at giving the Nation a greater degree of religious tolerance , thus taking some of the pressure off the Roman Catholics . |