Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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1 | And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was . |
2 | ‘ We are delighted that Shell has joined forces with us for this exciting project , which we feel holds a great deal of promise , ’ said Rupert Kidd , LOPL 's general manager . |
3 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
4 | We do make a great deal of fuss when children fail to match our expectations particularly when standards of behaviour are concerned . |
5 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
6 | Stress and conflict belong together , and the way we feel about what we do makes a great deal of difference to our inner store of pressures . |
7 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
8 | ‘ We 've achieved a great deal . |
9 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
10 | But then , of course , in the last year we 've seen a great deal of each other . |
11 | And sir the other strand which we 've heard a good deal about has been the nature of the vegetative screen which occurs between D thirty nine and D forty on the one hand , and land to the north of it on the other . |
12 | Although we 've advanced a great deal in the last fifty years , we still have a way to go and our self esteem is lower than men . |
13 | Wembley 's Martin Corrie said : ‘ We 've spent a great deal of money substantially improving our toilets and we 're in the process of installing additional facilities for ladies . |
14 | Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible . |
15 | And , and Chairman , that we 've had support , we 've had a great deal of help from party in Europe and it 's kept us informed |
16 | And we 've had a great deal of helpful cooperation and it 's very much erm going right into the schools , right into the whole system of government and control of the schools , erm and I think again is going to produce some very interesting results before too long . |
17 | All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books . |
18 | We have completed a great deal and the team knows exactly how a thing must be done , so it is simply a question of completing the sequence , designing our record packaging , and also seeing how the market is developing for the video players and monitors . |
19 | We have heard a great deal about the upheavals in Eastern Europe in recent months . |
20 | We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs . |
21 | It was sold as part of the National Bus Company sale to a company about which we have heard a great deal in our deliberations , Stagecoach , which is based in Perth . |
22 | On the distinction between education and training , we have done a great deal to bring together the best of education and of training . |
23 | ‘ Our intention was always to purchase a CT scanner in our business plan this year and we have done a great deal of work , ’ he said . |
24 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
25 | We have repaid a great deal of debt over recent years . |
26 | Since the end of the war , we have lost a great deal more of our forest land . |
27 | He added : ‘ We have achieved a great deal together over the past six years . |
28 | Tim Holton said : ‘ We have achieved a great deal in a short time but there is still a long way to go . |
29 | We have negotiated a special deal with one of the world 's leading car hire organisations , that enables us to pass on to you the corporate rates and preferential service for car hire that they usually offer only to large companies . |
30 | We have spent a great deal of time recognising and analysing the political problems we face and comparatively less time looking at ways to get rid of them . |