Example sentences of "[vb base] done a great deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
| 2 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 3 | Your recordings of Strauss 's orchestral works have become something of a legend , including works like the Sinfonia Domestica and the Alpine Symphony , which you have done a great deal to rehabilitate in public esteem . |
| 4 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 5 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the Government have done a great deal to assist the Scottish economy . |
| 6 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 7 | On the distinction between education and training , we have done a great deal to bring together the best of education and of training . |
| 8 | ‘ Our intention was always to purchase a CT scanner in our business plan this year and we have done a great deal of work , ’ he said . |
| 9 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |