Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] deal [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination . |
| 2 | ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said . |
| 3 | These documents — student records and timetables — often have to carry a great deal of information including complex messages and progress summaries . |
| 4 | ‘ I have heard a great deal about Harvard — who has n't ? |
| 5 | We have heard a great deal about the upheavals in Eastern Europe in recent months . |
| 6 | We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Meanwhile close rivals St Helens have completed a short-term deal for Canterbury-Bankstown 's Kiwi Test centre Jarrod McCracken who will be available for the home game with Wakefield Trinity on September 6 . |
| 9 | In North America these groups have received a great deal of attention , and provided valuable infomation on the Pleistocene climate . |
| 10 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 11 | China 's conservation efforts have received a good deal of attention and it has been difficult to sort out myth from reality . |
| 12 | Most of his work for this period was published in Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) ; many important poems , such as Resolution and Independence and the Immortality Ode , which were included in these volumes , have received a good deal of critical attention elsewhere . |
| 13 | Over the last thirty years the achievements of physiologists and psychologists in studying dreaming have received a good deal of attention in the media , much of it sensationalist , so one might expect some of this information to have percolated through to become common knowledge . |
| 14 | However , since much published work combines various approaches , there will be a good deal of overlap between different parts of the discussion and it will be necessary throughout to refer to various theoretical and methodological issues which have received a good deal of attention in recent years . |
| 15 | They have furnished a good deal of what we know about Jupiter . |
| 16 | In practice , writers on style have differed a great deal in their understanding of the subject , and one source of disagreement has been the question " To what or whom do we attribute style ? " |
| 17 | This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion . |
| 18 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'm a Catholic parent and I have seen a great deal of correspondence and adverse publicity in the local and Catholic press about this new Religious Education programme ‘ Here I Am ’ . |
| 23 | Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets . |
| 24 | You have to cause a great deal of damage to a Troll to stop it regenerating . |
| 25 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 26 | I have no interest myself in Michener or a lot of the writers of very long sagas erm who have made a great deal of money out of it . |
| 27 | It is all guesswork , but we can not help thinking about it , and I have thought a great deal about it . |
| 28 | Some buildings are larger and better known than others , and have had a great deal of publicity ; others are perhaps more modest in both scale and workmanship , but still deserving of attention as an important part of the local scene . |
| 29 | Although these have had a great deal of success in calculations of nuclear masses and shapes , recent laser experiments have produced some results that do not agree with them . |
| 30 | The Mnchener is suing Atlantic Richfield for nearly $150m , alleging that the company knew that the products the unit was developing would never be commercially viable , and according to the Wall Street Journal citing electronic mail messages , one of which says that as it appears the development ‘ is a pipe dream , let Siemens have the pipe , ’ and another that says ‘ We will attempt to finesse past Siemens the fact that we have had a great deal of trouble in successfully transitioning technology from the laboratory to the factory ’ ; Atlantic Richfield denies attempting to mislead Siemens over the unit . |