Example sentences of "we [verb] a great deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We mean a great deal to each other . ’ |
| 2 | We are also proud to be in the vanguard of training and safety initiatives for our Division as we place a great deal of importance on the safety aspects of working on a major construction site . |
| 3 | We owe a great deal to Ptolemy ; without him , we would know much less about ancient science than we actually do . |
| 4 | We owe a great deal to the United Nations Secretary-General and to Mr. Picco who have worked tirelessly with others to secure the release of the hostages . |
| 5 | We owe a great deal to Nick and we shall miss him . |
| 6 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 7 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 8 | Understandably we hear a great deal about how increases in the very staples of life bite on those who can very often least afford those increases . |
| 9 | WE HEAR a great deal these days from the Labour Party about the shortcomings of the NHS . |
| 10 | We spent a great deal of time familiarizing ourselves with the music by playing it at subscription concerts and youth concerts . |
| 11 | We know a great deal more about colour than any of the Impressionists . |
| 12 | As a result of the recent excavations , however , we know a great deal more about the 12th-century buildings than we did before . |
| 13 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 14 | Then a little later we find a great deal about romance . |
| 15 | Er the Government find it absolutely unacceptable for people to wait on trolleys , once the decision for admission has been made er but My Lords sometimes it is necessary to wait er for observation purposes or sometimes for diagnostic treatments , er which actually have to take place in the A and E department er but My Lords it 's very interesting to see how similar hospitals vary , even within the same vicinity and we believe a great deal of this is due to poor management . |
| 16 | When other people criticise or praise us we pay a great deal of attention to those descriptions and whether they are true or not , start to act them out . |
| 17 | ‘ We lost a great deal of money because of their tactics and need compensation , ’ said Mr Branson . |
| 18 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course we saw a great deal of each other . ’ |
| 20 | ’ We did a great deal on behalf of Nicholas Brown and are very surprised to hear that he has any complaints about the Foreign Office . |
| 21 | We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together . |
| 22 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 23 | We organized , we supported , we gave a great deal of work behind the candidates of the party as Dave has already mentioned , but we kept off the television , we kept off the radio , we kept out of the newspapers . |
| 24 | ‘ We filmed a great deal in St Petersburg . |
| 25 | Coach Mike Luke is right to stress the positive aspects of the CANZ contacts when he says : ‘ This is the single most important development tour we can undertake and we learned a great deal about some of Canada 's future World Cup players in one of the strongest and most testing environments the game has to offer . |
| 26 | We learned a great deal from those matches and this can only help us in the future , ’ he said . |
| 27 | We moan a great deal about bad for contemporary music , but put on a big new Stockhausen piece in London and the likelihood is that you will fill that hall , provided you prepare it . |
| 28 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 29 | Whilst the College was in recess we had a great deal of spare time . |
| 30 | He explained why he sent on Platt : ‘ In the first half we had a great deal of possession but we needed to move the Brazilians about , we needed to hurt them a bit more . |