Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a great deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It involves a great deal more strategic work , ’ she explained . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When an animal is shot or caught in a snare , or chased and caught , it has a great deal of suffering . |
| 5 | Such an approach is not without its difficulties , but it has a great deal of potential , particularly in relation to inner city areas . |
| 6 | As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 7 | In the abstract it has a great deal of force . |
| 8 | As a city it has a great deal to offer — especially to someone like myself who works in the rag trade . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It wants a great deal of working … newspaper office . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is not one of the chronicler 's purple passages , but seems to be a sober report of the negotiations , and it matters a great deal . |
| 13 | Lighting , however , you ca n't do without for obvious reasons and also because it adds a great deal of extra interest to a room ( see Lighting is important , page 35 ) |
| 14 | Every time I think about it , talk about it , it hurts a great deal . |
| 15 | It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . |
| 16 | There was some scepticism about this solution — given that we had altered the recommendations for doctors and dentists — but it says a great deal for the good sense of the nurses that they accepted the plan . |
| 17 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |
| 18 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 19 | At the very least , it says a great deal about the conspiratorial mentality which the leaders of the Communist system have created that so many defectors tend to see deception at work everywhere . |
| 20 | It says a great deal for the language faculty of the Polytechnic of Central London that it not only survived having this vociferous cuckoo of a course in its midst but is planning to repeat it . |
| 21 | It says a great deal about our attitude to the role of the opposition that you regard everything that they do as being a little more than attempt to seek a political advantage . |
| 22 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 23 | Although its language is not as remarkable as that of some other poems , it reveals a great deal about her attitudes toward gender , and toward her own writing : |
| 24 | It varies a great deal depending on the district council . |
| 25 | It varies a great deal . |
| 26 | This disciplinary technique is designed to ensure that minor misdemeanours such as whining , pestering and tantrums have no reinforcing consequences , and it requires a great deal of control and consistency on your part . |
| 27 | It takes a great deal of prestidigitatory skill to poison someone before your very eyes so to speak . ’ |
| 28 | It takes a great deal of sensitivity to provide activities which stimulate the patient 's interest , without exhausting him or making him frustrated if he can not achieve what he wants or what you hope for . |
| 29 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 30 | It takes a great deal of time to embroider a sampler in silks or wools , but it is a much swifter process when using pressed flowers . |