Example sentences of "a great [noun sg] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then after a year in Israel doing research on migrating birds of prey — ‘ I 've got a great story about that , mate . |
| 2 | Sally-Anne thought all this a great to-do about nothing . |
| 3 | So I mean perhaps they 'd be better off dead , just keeping them alive in a state of sickness or in coma or something of this sort — there was a great discussion about this and that erm you see not even life is the ultimate good in a sense , you see , at some point death is better . |
| 4 | The secondary teachers ' unions , particularly the Joint Four , had made a great outcry about the exodus of the grammar school teachers from the profession . |
| 5 | he had a great attitude about him . |
| 6 | The spaceport was off in the distance ahead of them , a giant depression in the midst of the great glacial plateau of ice — the City 's edge forming a great wall about the outer perimeter . |
| 7 | Women 's participation in the movement has developed a great awareness about women 's particular needs , in terms of nurseries , the socialization of domestic work , etc . |
| 8 | Who the rise was due to I do n't know except that I think David probably would n't have had the idea to have opened such wonderful offices and created such a great mystique about it which MainMan had . |
| 9 | For example , Paul concludes his description of his calling as an evangelist with a great insight about the gospel : ‘ In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence . ’ |
| 10 | Plus it has a great speech about robins . |
| 11 | Er , there was a great dispute about what this one could have been , I mean this , what the scenario 's wide , but I think we 'll settle for waste of space . |
| 12 | Various pundits and committees have made a great mystery about gluing . |
| 13 | Mageeba makes no concessions to the white political world yet he understands a great deal about it . |
| 14 | ‘ That was before the shrimp dish reached the dining-room ’ , said Milsom , revealing that he already knew a great deal about the evening . |
| 15 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 16 | These experiments tell us a great deal about certain aspects of cognitive processes , particularly their relative timing or sequencing . |
| 17 | The widow claimed to be particular about who she let to and told her a great deal about the other lodgers ; a musician and a German student , both women , and one man , a writer . |
| 18 | On the other hand , among those blasted , if one understood well enough about ‘ Rabindranath Tagore , from whose recitations ad infinitum we all suffered a great deal about this time ’ , why pick on Thomas Beecham , who at this time with the backing of Lady Cunard was embarking on a lifelong crusade for English opera ? |
| 19 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 20 | She sees red , however , when the slogans and other aspects of her designs are copied and bowdlerised ; she has sounded off a great deal about suing the culprits , a litigious reflex often apparent in her career . |
| 21 | There is a great deal about this here . |
| 22 | It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . |
| 23 | He worries a great deal about the house . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have heard a great deal about Harvard — who has n't ? |
| 25 | These rural people know a great deal about the land issue and agriculture , but the implications of a one party state do not affect them directly . |
| 26 | The choice of heads for the campaigning organizations says a great deal about their memberships : solidly white middle-class . |
| 27 | He acted as go-between postman , and from time to time he walked with Helen across and around the Common and talked to her a great deal about Edward . |
| 28 | Likewise in archaeology AMS has enabled us to date samples as minute as individual seeds , which can tell us a great deal about the origins of agriculture and the domestication of cereals . |
| 29 | There was a great deal about Christopher in it which was hard for Clarissa . |
| 30 | Genesis has spoken a great deal about blessing . |