Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] a great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her desperate words provoked a great shout of laughter from him , and , holding her firmly in his arms he rose and carried her towards his bedroom . |
| 2 | The speeches covered a great range of tone and emotion . |
| 3 | The public battle between their respective supporters generated a great deal of heat . |
| 4 | The sheer task of learning Clifford 's speeches demanded a great deal of concentration from James , a father of two ; Barnaby , four , and Florence , one . |
| 5 | Such patriarchates represented a great design of Church government , which the Hildebrandine popes aimed at replacing with a centralized authority . |
| 6 | Mr Bean , 29 , of Glen Road , Great Sutton , said : ‘ The lads did a great job for us . ’ |
| 7 | But the Moscow trials dampened a great deal of Left-wing enthusiasm for the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the other guests made a great point of saying she would never work with children or animals , ’ Sinitta explains . |
| 9 | Interest costs ate a great hole in what profits were left and will continue at a high level unless the group can raise substantial sums from asset sales . |
| 10 | Both the pilot work at Nsukka and the outputs of the writing workshops owed a great deal in style and organisation to the EDC 'S American Elementary Science Study . |
| 11 | When it was shown that both isoniazid and Marsilid inhibited the activity of monoamine oxidase and that Marsilid was considerably more potent , the possible implications aroused a great deal of interest . |
| 12 | Although the average Community Charge was 362 in 1990 , the amount of the tax paid by individuals varied a great deal from area to area . |
| 13 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 14 | Hahnemann 's theory of miasms attracted a great deal of scorn and scepticism in his day , and this attitude has tended to persist , particularly in orthodox medical circles . |
| 15 | Teachers showed a great deal of skill in dealing with the many interruptions of the classroom day , generally managing to neutralize them either by simply refusing to be distracted by them , or by transmuting them into a part of the teaching session . |
| 16 | Many developments owed a great deal to the vigorous encouragement of the ironmaster and local MP , Sir Bernhard Samuelson , who was a patron of technical education and chairman of the Royal Commission on this subject appointed in 1882 . |
| 17 | In this passage the Wordsworthian echoes of subject-matter and vocabulary are remarkable , though I suppose it is worth pointing out that Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen , an ‘ agnostic mountaineer ’ whose interests owed a great deal to the reading of Wordsworth . |
| 18 | The Mites did a great deal of touring and were given outdoor clothing , often a hooded cloak , socks and shoes , even a suitcase each . |
| 19 | Two issues produced a great deal of agitation in the country . |
| 20 | Although the specific physiological mechanism which they proposed to explain the effect , based on Livingston 's ( 1967a , 1967b ) ‘ Now Print ! ’ theory has attracted little support , the basic demonstration of a surprising ability to report such memories even after considerable delays attracted a great deal of interest and has now been found in a large number of studies ( e.g. Bohannon , 1988 ; Christianson , 1989 ; Colegrove , 1899 ; McCloskey , Wible & Cohen , 1988 ; Pillemer , 1984 ; Winograd & Killinger , 1983 ; Yarmey & Bull , 1978 ) . |
| 21 | This , then , was Mary 's inheritance : by a combination of political circumstances , luck , strong personalities on the throne and sheer nerve and drive , she was heir to a remarkably stable and remarkably outward-looking society , whose kings commanded a great deal of respect , and exercised a great deal of power . |
| 22 | Scientific tests recorded a great reduction in satiety level when subjects were fed apple juice ( apples with their fibre removed ) compared with the same quantity of apples eaten whole . |
| 23 | ‘ But Father and the other men had a great time at the headman 's — getting blind drunk on the raksi that they bought with the proceeds . ’ |
| 24 | My hon. Friend the Minister knows full well that , under the rating system , local authorities had a great deal of discretion about whether to charge on empty properties . |
| 25 | The Mexicans crossed the border to sell fruit and vegetables very cheap to the over-fed Americans , though Jane noticed that her overweight hosts made a great ceremony of using tablets instead of sugar in their coffee . |
| 26 | It is not difficult to see , as Fisher has pointed out , that the content of the case management models in the Kent schemes shared a great deal with the model of task-centred casework of the 1970s . |
| 27 | Being unmarried and childless she was unaware that many quite normal women spent a great deal of time talking to and feeding people whom they would not , themselves , have chosen to entertain . |
| 28 | The old videotapes lost a great deal of money because they were immediately taken and sold in pirate copies . |
| 29 | From the very beginning Popes took a great interest in their development and encouraged them . |
| 30 | In earlier centuries , excessive child-bearing and its short- and long-term consequences took a great toll among young women , but early in the twentieth century a fall in mortality from tuberculosis , somewhat later in maternal mortality , and the diseases particular to women 's reproductive functions , left males more vulnerable than females . |