Example sentences of "a [adj] deal [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , my feeling is that the spirits could bear my reproaches for bad advice a good deal more easily than men of flesh and blood to whom contusions and abrasions , the common result of argument , are very real sources of anguish . |
| 2 | I said , a good deal more calmly than I felt . |
| 3 | I found parental " insignificance " a family situation which figured a good deal more often than might be expected from mere chance in the history of dependent individuals . |
| 4 | For this reason , I think that such difficulties arise a good deal more often than is generally appreciated . |
| 5 | The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can . |