Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 2 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 3 | The It never changed all that much , but it did get a great deal closer . |
| 4 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 5 | The threat co-incided with an announcement by British Gas that it had secured an exclusive deal with Bahrain , one of the GCC members , to develop plans for a large power station there . |
| 6 | A year earlier Matisse had show his painting Le Bonheur de Vivre ( Barnes Foundation , Merrion , Penn. ) at the Salon des Indépendants , where it had received a great deal of attention , and during the winter of 1907 Derain was engaged in painting a canvas of bathers ( Museum of Modern Art , New York ) which he intended to show at the Indépendants of 1907 , so that it is possible that the Demoiselles may have been prompted by a spirit of rivalry . |
| 7 | However , before that , in December , AWSD announced internally that it had cut a similar deal with IBM 's Entry Systems Technology Group to set up a Personal RISC Systems joint venture to design , build and market all of the company 's PowerPC-based goods as well as such items as the X terminals and PC-priced M20 baby RS/6000s introduced last week . |
| 8 | The bank also denies last year 's claims that it had signed a major deal with IBM to supply RS6000s ( UX No 323 ) , saying that it was only ‘ evaluating ’ the IBM equipment . |