Example sentences of "is that a great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The frequent argument of the left is that a greater clarity on the National Curriculum would provide a lever with which to prise out more resources for the schools .
2 What might , however , be the case is that a greater proportion of people in temporary jobs are " involuntary " rather than " voluntary " temporary workers than a decade or so ago , in other words that the structure of the temporary worker population has changed over time .
3 If our analysis is valid , one consequence is that a greater proportion of observed health differences in childhood would be associated with socioeconomic variations in circumstances than can be accounted for by conventional social class groupings .
4 A second lesson is that a greater effort should be made to cushion the poor ( who are often women ) from the hardships that go with adjustment .
5 And the feeling in Washington is that a great pile of it is lying around ( under the name of Noriega M. ) at banks in London .
6 But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other .
7 As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship .
8 The major disadvantage with audio recorders is that a great deal of contextual information is not recorded and therefore , unless some other method of recording the context , such as note-taking , is employed , it may not be possible to recover a ‘ rich interpretation ’ of the child 's language .
9 What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ .
10 My problem is that a great deal of business needs to be done , and I have to try to accommodate that business as well .
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