The phrase "a substantive body of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a significant or meaningful collection of something, often in academic or formal contexts.
Example: "The research presented a substantive body of evidence supporting the theory."
Alternatives: "a significant amount of" or "a considerable collection of".
Advisers felt the need to show that there is a substantive body of thought behind Miliband's plans to create a fairer economy.
However, a substantive body of research [23 26] indicates that specialised logic consumes significantly less power than programmable logic due to the removal of overheads such as instruction processing, register accesses and inefficient memory layouts.
Definitions like this emphasize TEK as a substantive body of knowledge that is created and stored by human societies to aid in their flourishing in the face of environmental and natural resources challenges.
As just described, a substantive body of work has been undertaken in the development of oral specific health status measures.
A substantive body of literature suggests that land system change results from the collective impact of individuals' land use decisions.
In recent years, a substantive body of work has been conducted on DBA/2J mice, providing new insights into the spatio-temporal pattern of RGC dysfunction and degeneration.
However, we feel that published genomic and protein expression data from human cancer can be viewed as lending support to the substantive body of functional evidence that we present in this work, and altogether serve to implicate PVRL4 in the promotion of tumorigenesis.
In their early years they gave solo, mid-career shows to artists, including Martin Wong, David Wojnarowicz, Cecilia Vicuna and Krzysztof Wodiczko, who had created substantive bodies of work that establishment venues had ignored or shunned.
ISRCTN49285450 A substantive and continually expanding body of observational evidence supports the thesis that nutritional exposures during pregnancy and/or early infancy may programme developing organ systems and homeostatic pathways, with later consequences for disease outcomes – the 'Developmental Origins of Health and Disease' hypothesis (DOHaD) [ 1].
"We come here today with a substantive package of changes".
