Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | David has mellowed and quietened down a great deal . |
| 2 | ( It is rather like dropping a cork into water : at first it bobs up and down a great deal , but as the ripples carry away its energy , it eventually settles down to a stationary state . ) |
| 3 | Shots of unadulterated paradise — images of soft sand , azure skies and palm-fringed beaches can , when they are well done , bring in a great deal of money , yet , all too often , there is something empty about such shots . |
| 4 | It should bring in a great deal of money . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Senility is known to set in a good deal earlier in many cases . ’ |
| 6 | It is our reasons for asserting a dependent conditional which bring in a good deal more than what is brought in by the conditional itself . |
| 7 | The modern ferry comes in a good deal farther south , beneath slabs of World War Two concrete fortifications . |
| 8 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 9 | To Greeves , the orthodox believer , he wrote in January 1930 , ‘ In spite of all my recent changes of view I am still inclined to think that you can only get what you call Christ out of the Gospels by picking and choosing and slurring over a good deal . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the early 1960s , Alexander Thom , a retired Scottish professor of engineering , sparked off a great deal of interest and controversy in the archaeological community through his claims for the existence of a ‘ megalithic yard ’ , an ancient unit of measurement used by the builders of megalithic monuments . |
| 12 | After a while a flickering light appeared in the distance and drew steadily nearer ; a torch-bearer came into view , a girl , wearing a long white gown which left her arms bare ; she carried aloft a burning torch which gave off a great deal of tarry smoke . |
| 13 | The net effect of creating more available money could be to fire inflation , but the suggested increase in VAT would cream off a good deal of that extra money . |
| 14 | Mr Hatton did say he had a good many irons in the fire and that sometimes he brought off a big deal . |
| 15 | By the end of the programme Gary was much happier , showing much more pro-social behaviour and getting on a good deal better with his parents . |
| 16 | They must operate on a good deal less than total information ; 70 per cent is considered high availability for business people . |
| 17 | Although she is now slim , Liz confesses to a terrible struggle with her weight , which makes peasant-style clothes , such as Monsoon 's glorious Tibetan embroidered skirt ( see page 16 ) particularly good for her : ‘ I put on a great deal of weight after the twins were born , and when I started diving , it became very obvious because fat floats , so you have to balance your weight with extra diving weights . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 19 | So you can safely pick up a good deal of useful stuff here . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The days of reading philosophy , politics , and economics , called PPE , came up a good deal . |
| 22 | Although the intensive system of subject assessment takes up a good deal of time , it has been well received by these two centres . |
| 23 | That 's right , well that 's takes up a good deal of time . |
| 24 | Instead , it cooked up a market-sharing deal with Du Pont that was to last until 1944 , when it was the subject of a celebrated American antitrust suit . |
| 25 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 26 | We have built up a great deal of knowledge about the historical side of the palaces but that has not been presented to the public . ’ |
| 27 | Now a ‘ searching for something ’ or ‘ exploring ’ theme crops up a great deal in drama and there are many teachers who do not recognise that what looks like a tense , exciting , well-focused structure may be no such thing . |
| 28 | There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention . |
| 29 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 30 | 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 . |