Example sentences of "[verb] a good deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a control which required active defence , to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal , particularly in the late fourteenth century . |
| 2 | In the old large hospitals it was sometimes difficult to detect the strong mutual , informal relationships which developed amongst patients and provided a good deal of support , and , unfortunately , often little account was taken of these relationships when patients were moved from the hospitals into the community . |
| 3 | Those of you who are involved in deciding whether to apply for a place in further or higher education will already know a good deal about how to read prospectuses without believing everything they say : what they do not say is just as important . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They may need a good deal of support because of these conflicts , yet this is rarely available . |
| 6 | For example , a pupil who is mastering literacy and numeracy with few difficulties will spend a considerable amount of time in the ordinary classroom , but another may need a good deal of specialised help and be at a stage of going to only one or two lessons daily in the fully integrated situation . |
| 7 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 8 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
| 9 | Balance chairs have also attracted a good deal of interest . |
| 10 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 11 | The increasing though still very minimal panicipation of women in managerial , technical and higher professional occupations within the corporation has already attracted a good deal of attention , but there is little research specifically on the phenomenon of the female salariat in TNCs in the Third World ( see Garnsey and Paukert , 1987 , pp.57–67 ) . |
| 12 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 13 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
| 14 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
| 15 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |
| 16 | Strictly speaking the former ought to Read MEDIA RELEASE — important , perhaps , if you send a good deal of material to TV and radio . |
| 17 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 18 | Finally , he devoted a good deal of attention to the problem of the implications of his general historical approach for understanding the character of Christianity itself , particularly in The Absoluteness of Christianity ( 1901 ; E.T . |
| 19 | As a run up to this , the London-based group devoted a good deal of management time to restructuring the US operations , mainly in the sphere of sales and customer support . |
| 20 | Self and Ernest Long , the secretary , devoted a good deal of thought to methods of budgetary control which would make decentralisation possible , but the headquarters engineers , still deeply distrustful of anything from Self , had little conception of the financial and management principles of decentralisation . |
| 21 | He also devoted a good deal of his investigations to the extraordinary satin bower-bird , a native of the area and so called for its remarkable habit of building and decorating a sort of stage-set , in which it would perform ritual mating dances . |
| 22 | A central feature of the government 's binary policy and the concept of a ‘ public sector ’ was the decision to concentrate a good deal of advanced work in a new generation of ‘ polytechnics ’ — a title borrowed from an earlier response to technological and economic demand — the generation of polytechnics created in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | When Beatrice visited the canteen in October 1914 she found a good deal of atmosphere , although there was no beer or wine . |
| 24 | Interest in the nature of society was not lacking in the sixteenth century , and in one way or another commentators found a good deal to say about it . |
| 25 | I had the opportunity to visit the north-west on Monday , where I found a good deal of buoyancy and confidence in the future of the north-west and of the country as a whole . |
| 26 | In drawing attention to many such embarrassments , Davie 's book is sure to provoke a good deal of rancour in certain circles . |
| 27 | ‘ That turn of phrase you have … would seem to indicate a good deal of education . ’ |
| 28 | The crisis model places a good deal of emphasis on ‘ flair ’ and ‘ personality ’ . |
| 29 | Is the Minister aware that , while the science research councils have fared badly under the present Government , the humanities have fared a good deal worse under the direct rule of his Department ? |
| 30 | It was unpopular politically , as it involved a good deal of compulsion , and did not survive the chaos of independence . |