Example sentences of "[art] [noun] a great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 2 | At present , the region acts as a clearing house and Lothian region gives the college a great deal of autonomy . |
| 3 | Scientific research and teaching were important at many German universities , although the system was rigidly structured and gave the professor a great deal of power . |
| 4 | At the far end of the hall a great pile of earth was growing steadily ; here the Sikhs were trying to dig a well . |
| 5 | In the course of the exercise a great deal of knowledge had been gained about EPH activities and associated problems , and various other changes were made as a result of the investigation . |
| 6 | If the campaigning parents are in the right , then the headteacher is not fit to continue in post and they are actually doing the community a great service in their courageous attempts to expose the truth . |
| 7 | As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate . |
| 8 | Over the three-month life of this shop , the police recovered for the owners a great deal of stolen property . |
| 9 | The secretion of a skeleton gave the corals a great advantage over many other coelenterates ; supported thus they could overcome the lack of rigidity of their soft tissues and grow large . |
| 10 | This was in a state of semi-continuous eruption , with minor explosions taking place every five or ten minutes , showering fragments of pumice 200 metres into the air , and occasionally revealing the cherry-red glow of liquid lava in the crater , while all the while a great banner of steam rose 3,000 metres into the air . |
| 11 | There were drawings , too , rolled aside out of the way , and ranged along the bench a great array of tools , mallets , chisels and punches , from the coarsest to the needle-fine , all their handles polished and worn with use . |
| 12 | Their ‘ soft ’ attitude to the Poles lost the Nazis a great deal of support In the 1935 Volkstag elections . |
| 13 | He , then the most powerful and feared man in western Europe , was being pressured by someone who was the less-than-firmly-established leader of one of the poorest , weakest states in Europe ; who considered Nationalist Spain had done the Axis a great favour in beating communism in the Civil War ; who appeared to have forgotten the extent of German aid in achieving that victory ; who offered to contribute next to nothing to the German war effort ; and who , to crown everything , expected to receive military supplies and territory in return , at best , for vague promises . |
| 14 | On a beach in Bangkok-Ivoire , feeling the sun 's heat pushing light through the grottoes of her muscles and bones , with the sky a great raft of blue , Jezrael watched two girls build a sand-elephant beyond the sun-danced lapping blue of the Indian Ocean . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ In the past a great deal of training has been done on an almost random basis . |
| 16 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 17 | David Winnick , the Labour MP for Walsall North , who called for Mr Birt 's removal , said : ‘ I very much regret that Mr Birt decided not to offer his resignation , which would have saved the governors a great deal of embarrassment . ’ |
| 18 | Tranmere 's fear is that a move inspired by the Pools companies , who pay the League a great deal of money each year , will result in clubs being forbidden to switch fixtures away from the traditional Saturday except where television or the Police demand otherwise . |
| 19 | It was time to get serious again , and she gave the matter a great deal of thought . |
| 20 | The TMI accident effectively destroyed this relative complacency , and throughout the world a great deal of analytical and experimental work has been conducted on small LOCAs . |
| 21 | Most people provide small items set out on an open plan system , which gives the children a great deal of choice . |
| 22 | And we did require and demand and obtain from the Treasury a great deal of information before we would allow , as it were , any decision to be made . |
| 23 | The many , varied patterns take the beginner to advanced levels of the art , teaching him along the way a great mixture of different techniques containing all the essential elements of taekwondo . |
| 24 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 25 | ‘ I understand Peter Sebastian gives the trust a great deal of financial help , ’ Luce remarked . |
| 26 | He even advised me to sell them — I would find the legacy a great help in getting an interesting life . |
| 27 | ‘ I caused the party a great deal of anxiety over my views ’ he explained and added ‘ but strangely enough with this book it has not been such a struggle . |
| 28 | We all think she did the Party a great deal of harm with her strip-tease . ’ |
| 29 | The following chapters in this book will offer the reader a great deal in the way of possible solutions to very specific issues in the management of schools — this one will not — or at least not in the same focused way . |
| 30 | I looked at this detail with some interest , thinking it would probably tell a psychologist a great deal about Victor Frankenstein 's thought processes during this period of his engagement . |