Example sentences of "they have [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Mike and Brian say they 've gained a great deal … |
| 2 | Mike Evans , Managing Director of Pacplas , summed up the judges ' view : ‘ First , they 've achieved a great deal and the spirit of the team means they 'll get better and better . |
| 3 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 4 | Coun leader Arthur Taylor told the full council yesterday that they had made a sensible deal with the bus companies which could save the free pass scheme . |
| 5 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 6 | He was slow to sign up two aged persons as being of unsound mind , and only did so after they had given a good deal of trouble at the workhouse . |
| 7 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 8 | They had drunk a great deal and the night was warm , but on a sudden they were both stone-cold sober . |
| 9 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 10 | During the ride to Pesth they had talked a great deal . |
| 11 | According to him they had brought a great deal of food with them and despite the loss of Crane 's saddlebags and wallet there seemed to be no shortage of provisions . |
| 12 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 13 | They have furnished a good deal of what we know about Jupiter . |
| 14 | Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs . |
| 15 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 16 | Since they moved to Orkney in 1984 , they have invested a great deal in the farm , and work very hard at all hours . |
| 17 | They have learnt a good deal about nature from the aquarium and its inhabitants which was the general purpose of the aquarium . |
| 18 | Many headhunters themselves accept that some candidates are justified in considering that they have had a raw deal . |