Example sentences of "not make a great " in BNC.

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1 Teller went to extreme lengths to rescue Part I , but in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ The programme we had in 1949 was a tortured thing that did not make a great deal of technical sense .
2 ‘ While any loss of business is not good for us , it would certainly not make a great deal of difference , ’ he added .
3 He did not make a great impact beyond his own office .
4 ‘ I did not make a great job of that , did I ? ’ he asked .
5 In practice it probably did not make a great deal of difference to either party whether or not leases existed , unless or until a serious dispute between them arose .
6 ‘ A contract does not make a great deal of difference .
7 In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) .
8 ‘ I am not making a great song and dance about it , ’ she said in a softly dangerous voice and , with a hint of ostentation in her movements , stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee .
9 But , I mean , do , to be more realistic , I mean , o , if , obviously if , if all the government took a fifty percent pay cut it still would n't make a great deal of difference ?
10 So it did n't make a great deal of difference really , you know , you you 'd still got er some jurisdiction over them even though they were the foreman like .
11 She had intended to return to London that afternoon , but one more night would n't make a great deal of difference .
12 It did n't make a great occasion for me , though I think the backstage tension did contribute something to the success of the production .
13 Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors
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