Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [art] [adj] deal " in BNC.
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1 | The sad story of the decline of the African elephant mainly due to ivory poaching has received a great deal of much-needed publicity . |
2 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
3 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
4 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
5 | The latter class has received a great deal of attention recently because homologous sequences have been found as domains contained within larger DNA binding proteins such as the nucleolar transcription factor hUBF ( 3 ) , mitochondrial transcription factor 1 ( 4 ) , sex-determining region Y ( SRY ) ( 5 , 6 ) , lymphoid enhancer binding factor I ( LEF-1 ) ( 7 ) , a T-cell specific transcription factor TCF-1α ( 8 ) , and the yeast autonomously replicating sequence factor ABF2 ( 9 ) . |
6 | As well as the effects on trade union activity , a further implication of cross-national bargaining structures which has received a good deal of attention concerns their economic consequences . |
7 | The role of community education in the process of social change has aroused a great deal of discussion and action by socially committed adult educators over the last two decades . |
8 | That has aroused a great deal of fear and was referred to in a recent Health and Safety Executive report . |
9 | He now shares a house near the hostel with four other care-leavers and has stabilised a great deal . |
10 | The House has given a great deal of detailed attention to the Bill , and the promoters and the petitioners have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the case . |
11 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
12 | Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " . |
13 | The general practice fundholding scheme , which was introduced as part of the package of organisational reforms to the NHS in April 1991 , has attracted a great deal of comment . |
14 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
15 | Over the last two decades the study of code switching has attracted a great deal of interest from researchers working in different areas of linguistics . |
16 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
17 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
18 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
19 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
20 | This early framework for sensory physiology — of a piece with the Hobbesian idea of ‘ the organ proper to each sense ’ — has undergone a good deal of refinement . |
21 | The aromatic strength of the leaves has ensured a good deal of domestic and perfumery use , and it is also decorative , its pale blue flowers lasting many weeks and being much visited by bees . |
22 | Software has grown a great deal , both in size and complexity . |
23 | If the vendor is to feel that he has secured a good deal , then he , like the buyer , must feel that he has won some concessions . |
24 | Marketing has spawned a great deal of ‘ mumbo-jumbo ’ but its prevailing theme is people , at the heart of our business are the children and their parents and the community that we all serve . |
25 | The rate of decline has owed a great deal to the overall level of employment in the economy , so that year-to-year fluctuations have varied considerably — it has been calculated , for example , that a 1 per cent decline in the national level of unemployment is sufficient to provoke an increase in the outflow of labour from agriculture eight times as large . |
26 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |
27 | ‘ She has suffered a great deal . |
28 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
29 | ‘ He was depressed and has suffered a great deal of mental anguish . ’ |
30 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |