Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , some social survey projects do not necessarily require a great deal of theoretical background reading and the emphasis in this case will be less on the library and more on fieldwork . |
| 2 | That would not only cost a great deal of money , but put power once again into the hands of the National Union of Public Employees and the Confederation of Health Service Employees , which could then decide how hospitals were to be run . |
| 3 | A solution involving the secession of Eritrea , he said , " would not only bring a great deal of difficulty to Ethiopia , but also to a large number of other countries in similar positions " . |
| 4 | It may not always mean a great deal ( though sometimes a title of this sort can be read as a genuine sign of worth ) , but it plays an essential part in reassuring people in a notoriously insecure and uncertain business . |
| 5 | The decline of the Hellenistic world left Alexandria isolated , and it did not again become a great cosmopolitan city until the nineteenth century when its resurrection was built on the profits of cotton . |
| 6 | Greater understanding of what goes on in school does n't necessarily mean a greater approval of its organisation and its methods . |
| 7 | The new play has humour , pain and anguish about the nature of brothers and family relationships ‘ of people who are bound to each other but do n't necessarily have a great deal in common . ’ |
| 8 | It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about , |
| 9 | When you listen to one of the rather better Kylie records , they have taken a girl who does n't really have a great voice , who is an actress , and slowly they have developed a career where she actually now has a sound which is similar to some of the girly groups in the 60 ’ s , in a totally different way . |
| 10 | ‘ As I see it , Lisa , you do n't really have a great deal of room for manoeuvre . |
| 11 | In regards to of this motion , I do n't really have a great deal of trouble with that at all . |
| 12 | you know that s some do n't really have a great deal of problem , others really do have a sort of off work for two or three days every month and it 's not a bundle of laughs because , you know , that really must be difficult , but they , they get a rough idea of how it for them |