Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] a [adj] deal " in BNC.

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1 Where a child has moved around a great deal it may be difficult to determine where he ordinarily resides .
2 The Mental Health Act 1983 has stirred up a good deal of argument and controversy , which is , arguably , a very good thing in an area where individual liberty is at such risk .
3 ONE of Britain 's most famous cathedrals has wrapped up a fund-raising deal … with fast-food giant McDonald 's .
4 She sees red , however , when the slogans and other aspects of her designs are copied and bowdlerised ; she has sounded off a great deal about suing the culprits , a litigious reflex often apparent in her career .
5 Many church buildings are so austere and fortress-like from the exterior that the visitor not only has to pluck up a great deal of courage , but also has to exert considerable effort to force open the creaking , heavy door .
6 If this exhibition means to report on the whole of twentieth-century American modernism then it has left out a great deal in the period between the two world wars ; work that is historically important and good even though sometimes ‘ provincial ’ with respect to Europe .
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