Example sentences of "it [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Selkirk coach , John Rutherford , anticipates an open contest and noted : ‘ When you see the Watsonian back division it represents a great challenge for our boys . |
| 2 | The conceptual content required in this case to describe the institution , though it involves a great deal of cultural elaboration , does not display the same kind of break between the pre-cultural and the cultural as is found in the incest case ; and the biological pattern of explanation could recognizably run through such ideas as human beings finding certain institutions ‘ natural ’ , which does not require any appeal to a rational collective agency to understand the basic biological idea , as is damagingly the case with the incest example . |
| 3 | ‘ It involves a great deal more strategic work , ’ she explained . |
| 4 | It became a great treasure because there was n't much money to spare in those days . |
| 5 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 6 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 7 | It involved a great deal of counting , sorting , matching , etc . |
| 8 | It occasioned a great deal of comment and controversy at the time . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it created a great stir in the Danish art world . |
| 10 | ‘ The tour of the WISE bus into a number of our schools was very successful and there can be no doubt that it created a great interest amongst staff , girls and parents ’ |
| 11 | I 'm afraid that when I dropped out of sight it created a great deal of concern in the village . |
| 12 | Thence it described a great arc through Fenny Compton and Byfield to rejoin the other road at Cold Higham ( Crawford ) . |
| 13 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 14 | Like Brahms 's Haydn Variations ( to which it owes a great deal ) , the work was originally published in two versions , one for full orchestra , the other for two pianos with a different final variation . |
| 15 | Where it is good , it has a great ability to draw people into church . |
| 16 | It has a great dance floor and discos and live bands are staged here regularly . |
| 17 | I think it has a great story line , I hate Carmel ! |
| 18 | Plus it has a great speech about robins . |
| 19 | When an animal is shot or caught in a snare , or chased and caught , it has a great deal of suffering . |
| 20 | Such an approach is not without its difficulties , but it has a great deal of potential , particularly in relation to inner city areas . |
| 21 | As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 22 | In the abstract it has a great deal of force . |
| 23 | As a city it has a great deal to offer — especially to someone like myself who works in the rag trade . |
| 24 | It has a great atmosphere ; a sense of permanence . |
| 25 | It 's exclusive to club 18–30 , it 's near the centre of town , it has a great pool and sunbathing area , a waiter-service restaurant with a special buffet breakfast and a reputation for excellent food , a friendly bar serving a good range of snacks . |
| 26 | It contains a great amount of statistical evidence and pictures and models . |
| 27 | Now this is not perhaps one of the best of Spitzer 's analyses , and in any case it contains a great deal more than we have space to repeat here . |
| 28 | It wants a great deal of working … newspaper office . |
| 29 | She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money . |
| 30 | It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit . |