Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter 's situation illustrates the fact that patients who spend very little time in hospital or have minor procedures performed still have anxieties and may need a great deal of help both before and after discharge . |
| 2 | In historical writing you may need a great deal of factual information to support your argument or opinion . |
| 3 | Was it not you yourself who said we should build a great dam against the floodwaters of Change ? ’ |
| 4 | To till properly , you must know a great deal about every bit of your land — you will find variations between different parts of even one small field — soil texture , structure , acidity , drainage , and history must all be considered ; as must the significance of the life within the soil and its relationship to fertility . |
| 5 | That 's her finished for the season but she will be back next year and should show a great deal of improvement . ’ |
| 6 | The teacher does not need to know exactly what will happen and can not usefully plan a story line very far ahead , but should give a great deal of thought to the organisation of the lesson : How will groups be divided ? |
| 7 | With almost no ability to act as a pendulum , a kangaroo must expend a great deal of energy in its lopsided and ungainly walk , using first its front legs and tail , then drawing its rear legs forward . |
| 8 | The prehistory of Islay is not easily understood and one must use a great deal of imagination to build up a picture from what has been learnt by Investigation and excavation , bearing in mind that isolated pieces of evidence may be entirely unrepresentative of the normal life of the community . |
| 9 | ‘ You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’ |
| 10 | However , that would surely be a great pity , because project work should have a great deal to offer as a means of developing reading and other skills . |
| 11 | 121 , as to which Parke B. , in Cooper v. Parker ( 1855 ) 15 C.B. 828 , said , ‘ Whenever the question may arise as to whether Down v. Hatcher is good law , I should have a great deal to say against it , ’ yet there certainly are cases in which great judges have treated the dictum in Pinnel 's Case as good law . |
| 12 | The Roman Catholic Church must take a great deal of credit for consistently arguing the ‘ pro-life ’ case . |
| 13 | A good agent really understands the route a band has to take and must have a great relationship with his or her promoters to persuade them to believe in an artist . |
| 14 | ‘ You must have a great father then . |
| 15 | Bureaucracy seems to block the Chinese sources , which with their huge mule farms must have a great deal of information . |
| 16 | You must have a great deal to talk about . ’ |
| 17 | They must leave the Great Tower via room 69 to passage 24 , and then make their way outdoors . |
| 18 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 19 | The Irish have settled into this country and there are communities of them all over do they go and see your concerts and if they do that must mean a great deal to them I should think ? |
| 20 | There were the inevitable assertions that they must raise a great army to defeat the insufferable Edward should he dare set foot on Scottish soil , this earl promising his thousands and the next outdoing him . |
| 21 | A man , if he needs to express masochistic impulses , must put a great deal more effort and imagination into it . |
| 22 | Compliance with this is not going to solve all incidents of tanker pollution by any manner of means , but it should help a great deal . ’ |
| 23 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 24 | I do no man any harm and perhaps may achieve a great good . |
| 25 | It 'll make a great observation post . |
| 26 | We 'll make a great team , Jeanne . |
| 27 | Send us your top tip , and if it 's the best of the batch , you 'll win a great prize ! |
| 28 | Send us your top tip , and if it 's the best of the batch , you 'll win a great prize ! |
| 29 | It seems that it might take a great deal of commitment and determination to drag yourself out in the pouring rain or snow , until you think about how much you miss your husband when you can not even touch him for nearly two weeks . |
| 30 | You 'll have a great day out — and remember that every penny raised will go to Birthright . |