Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination . |
| 2 | ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ I have heard a great deal about Harvard — who has n't ? |
| 4 | We have heard a great deal about the upheavals in Eastern Europe in recent months . |
| 5 | We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs . |
| 6 | It was sold as part of the National Bus Company sale to a company about which we have heard a great deal in our deliberations , Stagecoach , which is based in Perth . |
| 7 | We have completed a great deal and the team knows exactly how a thing must be done , so it is simply a question of completing the sequence , designing our record packaging , and also seeing how the market is developing for the video players and monitors . |
| 8 | Over nearly fifty years , I have developed a great affection for them . |
| 9 | The introduction comments : ‘ We have witnessed a great change in manners : the substitution of words without blows for blows with or without words ; an approximation in the manners of different classes ; a decline in the spirit of lawlessness . ’ |
| 10 | In North America these groups have received a great deal of attention , and provided valuable infomation on the Pleistocene climate . |
| 11 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 12 | As a frequent visitor to Scotland I have formed a great admiration for the Scottish farmer 's skills , particularly in animal husbandry and the attention that he pays to the production of a crop of whose product I am a not infrequent consumer . |
| 13 | Now paired with the joker-in-chief , Palmer said : ‘ We have formed a great relationship off the pitch . |
| 14 | In practice , writers on style have differed a great deal in their understanding of the subject , and one source of disagreement has been the question " To what or whom do we attribute style ? " |
| 15 | Two consecutive wins and the signing of the year have lifted a great weight from the place . |
| 16 | I would have thought that there would be an appreciable market for this CD , which , on a personal level , I have enjoyed a great deal . |
| 17 | This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion . |
| 18 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 19 | Your recordings of Strauss 's orchestral works have become something of a legend , including works like the Sinfonia Domestica and the Alpine Symphony , which you have done a great deal to rehabilitate in public esteem . |
| 20 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 21 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the Government have done a great deal to assist the Scottish economy . |
| 22 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 23 | On the distinction between education and training , we have done a great deal to bring together the best of education and of training . |
| 24 | ‘ Our intention was always to purchase a CT scanner in our business plan this year and we have done a great deal of work , ’ he said . |
| 25 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
| 26 | The youngsters who have come in have done a great job . ’ |
| 27 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 28 | Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools . |
| 29 | I 'm a Catholic parent and I have seen a great deal of correspondence and adverse publicity in the local and Catholic press about this new Religious Education programme ‘ Here I Am ’ . |
| 30 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |