Example sentences of "great [noun] [prep] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Honiton talked as if there were a great wave of support for the view that he and others advocate on this matter . |
| 3 | It is also clear that there was a great deal of support for the old church throughout the country , and particularly from the gentry elites of provincial England . |
| 4 | This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married . |
| 5 | At Bethlehem , New Hampshire , the highest village east of the Rockies , the Boston and Maine created a delightful , half-timbered chalet-style building with a great deal of space for the horse-drawn coaches and carriages which conveyed excursionists from the station . |
| 6 | It would certainly create more work for the lawyers but would not add a great deal of protection for the ordinary person . |
| 7 | Even with the simplest database management program for microcomputers used in schools , there is a great deal of flexibility for the design of databases to suit particular needs . |
| 8 | Large companies such as Coca Cola , Mars and many others pay a great deal of money for the privilege of using the logo . |
| 9 | The whisky is bottled there and dispatched abroad , earning a great deal of money for the coffers of the Chancellor . |
| 10 | The country has a great deal of sympathy for the prince and princess but the people are anxious to know the whole story . ’ |
| 11 | I have a great deal of sympathy for the hon. Gentleman , because I am sure that all hon. Members are annoyed when they do not receive replies to letters . |
| 12 | This trend towards a greater reliance upon jobs in service industries does not by itself , however , hold out a great deal of hope for the long-term male unemployed , or the emerging underclass . |
| 13 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 14 | Her father had always had a great deal of time for the Sally Ann . |
| 15 | Thus , older workers were more than twice as likely as those under 40 to say that they had a great deal of respect for the top management at the firm ( 72 per cent ) . |
| 16 | I have a great deal of respect for the officials and managers of my local offices . |
| 17 | Royston Lambert , who undertook a great deal of research for the Commission , recorded the prayer of a twelve-year-old boy : |
| 18 | There is a great deal of room for the courts to interpret these words . |
| 19 | We recommend contacting Cedok once you know where you want to go as they can arrange package holidays as well as provide a great deal of information for the independent traveller . |
| 20 | Unfortunately for them , however , the computer technology is rapidly replacing antiquated machines , resulting in a great cut in demand for the old craft skills . |
| 21 | This principle is unlikely to be of great relevance in cases for the protection of business secrets . |
| 22 | Jiang praised the armed forces for their loyalty and " high degree of political awareness " in quelling the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " in June , calling the PLA " a strong pillar of the people 's democratic dictatorship and a great wall of steel for the socialist motherland " . |
| 23 | Perhaps in the spirit of the man threatened with bankruptcy who throws a lavish party to confuse his creditors , Napoleon III , confronted with this array of difficulties , organized a second spectacular Great Exhibition in Paris for the summer of 1867 . |
| 24 | For instance , on St Brigid 's Day in Ireland , she once filled a great lake with ale for the poor to enjoy . |
| 25 | Of all the changes in the last two generations , only the great reservoirs of water for the industrial cities of the North and Midlands have added anything to the scene that one can contemplate without pain . |
| 26 | People have a great sense of affection for the county and for their district . |
| 27 | By the end of 1942 , the great year of success for the Axis , things were starting to change dramatically . |
| 28 | These deposits are not only a potential source of copper , zinc and other metals , but are also of great interest to oceanographers for the insights they offer into the formation of metals on the ocean floor . |
| 29 | The ‘ floating cloche ’ makes it possible to cover much greater areas of plants for the same outlay . |
| 30 | Although their long galleries and multitude of rooms provided a greater degree of privacy for the gentry families , the homes were still very much public places , the more so according to the rank of the owner . |