Example sentences of "[noun] a great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands . |
| 2 | Jane found animals a great prop to sanity . |
| 3 | The whole operation caused Mrs Singh a great deal of anxiety . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At present , the region acts as a clearing house and Lothian region gives the college a great deal of autonomy . |
| 6 | There have been suggestions that James owed Gowrie a great deal of money , and contrived the incident to rid himself of the debt ; or that he had homosexual designs on the young man , and had murderously silenced him when rejected . |
| 7 | In practice a great deal of discretion is exercised by the Revenue with regard to this section , but to avoid an unexpected tax liability in relation to the transfer by the husband of the former matrimonial home to the wife the husband is well advised to consider making his election within the two-year period . |
| 8 | Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The response to this ad has illustrated what many of us suspect these days : there is in our industry a great wealth of under-utilised talent and experience which , far from regarding itself as unemployed and job hunting , is highly entrepreneurial and self-reliant . |
| 11 | Indeed , any lexical analysis of spontaneous speech will bring to light a great deal of it — words and phrases which approximate , round off , exaggerate , generalize , qualify , and maintain vagueness or ambiguity — in a word , there will be many hedges . |
| 12 | He pauses once and then hesitates again before making the statement , " I " m a great admirer of yours " ( p. 58 ) and the level of formality he uses to introduce himself ( giving his own name after using the formal vocative " Mr Crisp " to gain his attention ) is absurdly high for the situation . |
| 13 | It is in this sense that Nizan 's revolutionary literature demands a great deal from the reader . |
| 14 | The areas involved are very large and it will take the oil companies a great deal of time and money to cover them . |
| 15 | Nettie B. was absent from work a great deal in the 1920s , " owing to sickness of mother " . |
| 16 | Of course , if the discourse analyst experiences a great deal of data like this , he will feel more confident in his description and interpretation . |
| 17 | At the far end of the hall a great pile of earth was growing steadily ; here the Sikhs were trying to dig a well . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For five years ( 1770–75 ) the entire correspondence of John Murray , British Ambassador to the Porte , was copied by one of his servants and the copies sent to his French colleague and rival ; simultaneously the Cardinal-Prince de Rohan , French Ambassador at Vienna in 1772–74 , obtained through an anonymous intermediary a great amount of confidential correspondence relating to the policies of Austria and many other States . |
| 20 | Money matters a great deal to the elderly . |
| 21 | Over the last two decades a great deal of work has been published by historians on the subject of popular culture . |
| 22 | Is it not clear from that information that not only was the Gulf war a great success in military terms , but that the financial outcome was also most satisfactory from the point of view of the United Kingdom ? |
| 23 | ‘ He 'll be a real help to the batsmen , and it will do his confidence a great deal of good . |
| 24 | It would take a teacher a great deal of time to prepare such graphs manually but more importantly the software allows pupils to manipulate it to discover aspects of pond life for themselves . |
| 25 | Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming . |
| 26 | In the central area of the nest site a great heap of bones and fragmentary remains of pellets had accumulated from the break up of the pellets . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He has shown Matthew a great deal of kindness , and you have to admit that , were it not for my father 's offer of friendship , Matthew would be a very lonely soul . |
| 29 | Complaining in print about one restaurant 's service charge policy — giving both the restaurant and proprietor 's name — could cost that establishment a great deal of money in bad publicity . |
| 30 | 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 . |