Example sentences of "great [noun sg] of [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great variety of form of the hard parts surely shows that trilobites were adapted to a wide range of habitats and life styles . |
| 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 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 . |
| 4 | Should it become necessary , to meet EEC requirements on medicines legislation , to run tests with homoeopathic remedies using double-blind models , the great advantage of research with the remedies is their gentle action and lack of the harmful side-effects which unfortunately result from many orthodox drugs . |
| 5 | Alas , the great mass of weight over the tail also meant that , at high speed on damp surfaces , the 911 had a habit of disappearing off roads , backside first . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ The new pattern introductions for Autumn 1993 created a great deal of excitement at the show , especially Hopscotch , Aquabatic , and Hyde Park in the new fine china collection , ’ said Tom . |
| 17 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Two issues produced a great deal of agitation in the country . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His temper was uncertain and he was drinking a great deal of brandy during the evenings . |
| 23 | Terry 's family , unlike he himself , had n't had a great deal of experience of the world outside the States , so Peg had had an awful lot to learn . |
| 24 | This drives out a great deal of air through the porous clay of the mould producing a partial vacuum which helps to suck the metal quickly into place when the arrangement is inverted . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | It is worth noting — and I say this for the benefit of my hon. Friend the Minister if for no one else 's benefit — that there has been a great deal of hyprocrisy on the part of the Labour party in Thurrock and Basildon concerning the centralisation of casualty services at Orsett . |
| 27 | Oxford Polytechnic 's interpretation of modular structure is analogous to a federal state , with a great deal of diversity at the subject-based periphery , and a great deal of uniformity at the administration-based centre . |
| 28 | You have a great deal of choice in the matter but there are also certain rules designed to protect you . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There was a great deal of space on the new site , but the station was less conveniently situated to the city than the old one had been . |