Example sentences of "[vb pp] a good deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Balance chairs have also attracted a good deal of interest . |
| 3 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 9 | The Attorney General had , under instructions , done a good deal of work on the issue . |
| 10 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 11 | She had done a good deal more than that . |
| 12 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 13 | The Gods were banished to high places , men were re-created a good deal smaller , and much of the old wild magic was sucked out of the earth . |
| 14 | I 've written a good deal about traps . |
| 15 | book , commandos would be — I believe — the first to accept that those who received awards usually owed a good deal to the support of their fellows , in spirit if not by arms . |
| 16 | So it would seem , but closer examination shows that the earthwork incorporated a good deal of turfwork , which in at least two places was laid on top of a layer of flints . |
| 17 | Lamb had taken over the Northamptonshire leadership the previous season and had shown himself enthusiastic if inexperienced , but had then missed a good deal of the season through injury . |
| 18 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 19 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 20 | This early framework for sensory physiology — of a piece with the Hobbesian idea of ‘ the organ proper to each sense ’ — has undergone a good deal of refinement . |
| 21 | Mr Wilson had also said a good deal about modernizing the machinery of government . |
| 22 | I have said a good deal more on Government Back Benches than I have on Opposition Back Benches and very often it has been what has been done on Government Back Benches that has saved even Labour Governments from some of their follies . |
| 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 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 25 | And although just about everywhere 's seen a good deal of sunshine , it has continued to feel pretty chilly . |
| 26 | Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament . |
| 27 | If the vendor is to feel that he has secured a good deal , then he , like the buyer , must feel that he has won some concessions . |
| 28 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 29 | Those who have cottoned on to the streak of genius in Brittain 's seemingly eccentric modus operandi have struck a rich vein of gold as the stable 's horses are often priced a good deal longer than they should be . |
| 30 | Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development . |