Example sentences of "great [noun sg] of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great variety of creatures in the Burgess Shales is a reminder of how incomplete our knowledge is of all fossil faunas . |
| 2 | Sailing away from the wind is known as running and you 've got great freedom of choice in the exact course you pick , you can even sail dead downwind . |
| 3 | The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares , to which this chapter refers . |
| 4 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 5 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 6 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |
| 7 | They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route . |
| 8 | Their ‘ soft ’ attitude to the Poles lost the Nazis a great deal of support In the 1935 Volkstag elections . |
| 9 | To judge from that response , I think that my hon. Friend has a great deal of support in the House . |
| 10 | There is a great deal of support in the EC for such a discriminatory tax , eventually rising to as much as $10 a barrel . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , Gill and Jackson 's book appeared at a t–me when there was a great deal of activity in the black community directed towards finding black families for black children , thereby making it progressively unnecessary for transracial placements to continue . |
| 12 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 13 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 14 | There is a great deal of variety in the work of the ES and this booklet should help you see the bigger picture — of how you can help to provide a vital service to the public . |
| 15 | Two issues produced a great deal of agitation in the country . |
| 16 | You have a great deal of choice in the matter but there are also certain rules designed to protect you . |
| 17 | This relationship entails that speakers can exercise a great deal of choice in the way they encode their meanings ; for example , even if questions ( i.e. requests for information or for action ) occur in a text , there is no guarantee that they will be realized syntactically as interrogatives ; there is no simple isomorphic relationship between function and form . |
| 18 | Clearly , the hearer is left with a great deal of responsibility in the interpretation process . |
| 19 | Disney has a good record on bringing in projects on time , and there is a great deal of faith in the Eurodisney management . |
| 20 | IMO Whilst I believe Leeds are capable of scoring goals away from home , I do not have a great deal of faith in the team 's ability to defend when put under pressure . |
| 21 | Recall from Chapter 22 that the monetarists put a great deal of faith in the observed correlation between changes in the money supply and changes in national income . |
| 22 | There was a great deal of speculation in the Western press during October concerning the position of President Hafez al-Assad 's brother , Col. Rifaat al-Assad . |
| 23 | There is indeed a great deal of water in the Falklands . |
| 24 | I 'm afraid that when I dropped out of sight it created a great deal of concern in the village . |
| 25 | We shall be doing a great deal of work in the coming months to discourage the government from taking a decision which would send book prices soaring and seriously damage the health of the trade . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Other cities ’ experience show conferences are an excellent way of bringing in visitors who will spend a great deal of money in the city . |
| 27 | There is a great deal of variation in the size and composition of such groups . |
| 28 | There has been a great deal of correspondence in the trade press and the media concerning the absence of top quality vine fruits from the shops . |
| 29 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 30 | As Christians we recognise that there is a great deal of hope in the behaviour category , because if our behaviour is less than God demands , we know that he will give the strength to change it to meet his demands . |