Example sentences of "[adj] deal of effort " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of people retire from industry and spend a great deal of effort on these activities . |
| 2 | I fall into the occasional thigh-deep drift and expend a great deal of effort in escaping . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 4 | The families choosing such an event put a great deal of effort into making the formal disposal of the body ( which is what the job has become ) as relevant and reverent as possible , and yet it seemed extremely difficult to achieve . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the work which went into recording on the main islands of the Outer Hebrides , a great deal of effort also went into visiting the less accessible islands and outliers . |
| 6 | The result was that a great deal of effort went into recording the habitats seen to be under threat , and the material collated within the Symposium volume ( Boyd , 1979b ) proved to be of immense value . |
| 7 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 8 | A great deal of effort also needs to be devoted to enhancing the social standing of the cleaners because they can so easily be regarded as inferior by other staff irrespective of their skills . |
| 9 | A great deal of effort was put into the collection of new data on the magnetic patterns of the ocean floors in the 1960s and this quickly demonstrated the correctness of the first two points : the strips certainly were parallel to the ridges , and symmetrical about them . |
| 10 | He channelled a great deal of effort into his group , almost as an act of revenge . |
| 11 | I think the solution is certainly to breed animals in zoos but , if it is done , a great deal of effort must be made to ensure the conditions in which the animals are kept are good , and there are some zoos now which are successful in keeping animals so that their welfare is good . |
| 12 | A great deal of effort has gone into making changes in this area , since many feminists consider pronouns an important subliminal influence on perception . |
| 13 | GROUPS all over Britain put a great deal of effort into last year 's Prisoner of Conscience Week , held from 18–24 October with the theme ‘ for children ’ . |
| 14 | The leather trade was one which did not take a great deal of effort to run successfully but then Craig believed that his brother had a hand in the unprofitable deals Uncle Thomas had made and had profited from them . |
| 15 | With all these advantages it is not surprising that a great deal of effort and resources go into the provision of simulators for high technology industry . |
| 16 | Social services chairman Bob Pitt said : ‘ We have put a great deal of effort into preparing contracts , which we believe are both fair to the homes and ensure that resources are used effectively . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Yeo promises a ‘ great deal of effort will go on ’ , with research into treatment for AIDS boosted by £200 million of Government money in the coming year . |
| 18 | Over the past ten years recruitment of nurses has been relatively ease Neither a great deal of effort nor man hours has been dedicated to the process . |
| 19 | a great deal of effort and time in enabling the children to write something meaningful |
| 20 | So I am pleading that the panel really take a great deal of effort in this leaflet so that it is going to be easily understood by even the people who are less well educated than some of us . |
| 21 | A great deal of effort has been put into making sure that what the examiner requests has been clearly and unambiguously stated . |
| 22 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |
| 23 | It took a great deal of effort not to wriggle about as much as I normally did , but I feared him panicking more than the physical discomfort . |
| 24 | A great deal of effort was expended on studying the degree of adaptation and the processes by which adaptive change was brought about . |
| 25 | It seemed to Alexei as he considered it that a great deal of effort must be required to sustain such a relationship , and he could not imagine how his father could be bothered with it , or how the women could be content . |
| 26 | Although not strictly a relaxation therapy , toning tables offer the benefits of exercise without a great deal of effort , and without the aches and pains of overstretched muscles . |
| 27 | Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs . |
| 28 | Given that any instance of one of these is erroneous , it is not worth putting a great deal of effort into their study . |
| 29 | The way in which the RMCs have developed has been analysed most interestingly by Nancy Foy in a survey of management education undertaken on behalf of the Foundation of Management Education , itself a body which has put a great deal of effort into stimulating initiatives in management education . |
| 30 | Commercial organizations spend a great deal of effort on assessing the needs and wants of their customers , and yet , as we saw in Chapter 31 ( The Marketing Concept ) , there is a variety of possible orientations towards customers . |