Example sentences of "great [noun sg] of [noun] to the " in BNC.

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1 Although there was a great deal of resistance to the starting of this venture , from many areas , there were no complaints to the committee during or after .
2 Although there was a great deal of resistance to the starting of this venture , from many areas , there were no complaints to the committee during or after .
3 respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I
4 He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community .
5 This book is intended as a concise account of the principles of peptide chemistry for upper-level undergraduates studying chemistry and biochemistry and the author has obviously given a great deal of thought to the needs of his readers .
6 Give a great deal of thought to the position and size of opening windows , both with regard to security and , more importantly , to ensure a quick means of escape in case of fire , especially at night when doors are likely to be well secured .
7 Richard and Peter devoted a great deal of thought to the theory underlying the succession , and made sure that there was a plausible Emorian reason for each change of emperor .
8 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 ?
9 The money will go towards an extension and towards kitchen equipment in the extension , we had a nice time there , and there was a great deal of gratitude to the G M B.
10 If consent were not successfully produced and reproduced , this could ultimately affect the condition and prospects of the economic base , not least by making a great deal of difference to the likely success of the revolutionary struggle .
11 There is , however , a great deal of opposition to the project as there is no guarantee that these objectives will be achieved , because large-scale relocation of displaced farmers will be necessary and because there are likely to be profound and detrimental ecological consequences .
12 Although I realise that he can not know of a particular incident that has been drawn to my attention today , is he aware that information has been sent to deceased claimants , thus causing a great deal of distress to the families concerned ?
13 Because of their frontality African figure sculptures are commonly photographed or drawn full face , concealing the fact that the sculptor has paid a great deal of attention to the profile view .
14 Third , and most centrally , the government draw a great deal of attention to the need to establish a close fit or match between secondary school teachers ' specialist subject qualifications , and their teaching responsibilities in school .
15 What is required now is a strategy for the socialist use of democratic control over the local state which , while never neglecting what efforts are possible at providing services in a socialist ( i. e. humane and effective ) fashion in the foreseeable future , pays a great deal of attention to the use of resources for the mobilization of forces .
16 This is not a description that applies to WordStar alone — most of the Windows based word processors aspire to this kind of characterization , but WordStar as a company has paid a great deal of attention to the graphics side of the equation , and this includes fiddling with text to get the most impact from it .
17 However , despite television 's growing importance as a source of information , regular readers of newspapers continue to attach a great deal of weight to the print medium ( Table 1.2(b) ) .
18 Our Journal which is available at a yearly subscription of £35.00 , which gives a great deal of information to the members and consumers .
19 The FBI is keen to set up a joint task force with Scotland Yard to combat the growing number of insurance , investment and banking frauds in the dependencies which cause a great deal of embarrassment to the British Government .
20 But that was before the murder of the Bulgarian Georgi Markov , in exactly such a fashion , added a great degree of plausibility to the theory .
21 The terrain is very varied from the great expanse of Dartmoor to the gentler stretch of Exmoor .
22 The great virtue of Cagney to the Hollywood set-up was that he could realistically depict anger , violence , and meanness without in any way suggesting that he was personally a worthless villain or that the film in which he was appearing was deliberately condoning these unpleasant qualities .
23 He will not forget , particularly when we have the presidency next year , that Malta has applied for membership of the Community and that we owe a great debt of gratitude to the Maltese people .
24 Er certainly the surplus was used to er create a new scheme for the present contributing members and er to the maximum benefit of the new sponsoring company , which er in the pensioners view er certainly er caused a great lack of security to the fund in our view of what they have done and er it is of in our opinion a matter of public concern and that we welcome the opportunity and I believe that you said previously that you 're gon na come up on the ownership of surplus , so perhaps getting away from it
25 But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control .
26 It had also long been a great source of amusement to the more belligerent regulars as they watched the uninitiated stumble in and sit down .
27 The barbarian kings had been a great source of perplexity to the Christian bishops of the early Middle Ages .
28 All in all , secondments were richly rewarding and a great source of satisfaction to the secondees .
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