Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the effects on trade union activity , a further implication of cross-national bargaining structures which has received a good deal of attention concerns their economic consequences . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 4 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But there are exceptions and one is Leslie Waddington who has enjoyed a good volume of business at ARCO where he will be exhibiting for the third successive year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The aromatic strength of the leaves has ensured a good deal of domestic and perfumery use , and it is also decorative , its pale blue flowers lasting many weeks and being much visited by bees . |
| 9 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 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 | It is entitled ’ Myth of the tax rebels ’ and it says : ’ Over the last decade the Government has done a better job of blowing local authorities to smithereens than Guy Fawkes . |
| 12 | He plays throughout Europe and North America and has made a good number of recordings . |
| 13 | But in no way can effective environmental policies be rendered compatible with the anti-statist , non-interventionist creed which has inspired a good deal of Thatcherite rhetoric . |
| 14 | To date , feminism has contributed a good deal of fuel to both sides of this dialectic , because the case of women is a peculiar one , and introduces even more complications into an already troublesome argument . |
| 15 | Nowadays this service has a high technical profile and far superior image , which has provided a good degree of protection in the market place . |
| 16 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 17 | There are earlier Berman recordings of nearly all the pieces in this latest recital ; in no instance is the interpretation all that different ( though he has found a better edition of Funérailles ) and in most it is rather less satisfying . |
| 18 | This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive . |
| 19 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 20 | The field needs to have a good supply of water . |
| 21 | But if your company has retained a good deal of discretion on key matters , it may be able to impose major changes on your working life without giving rise to a constructive dismissal claim . |
| 22 | The British government 's approval of cable networks to distribute information and entertainment on a national or regional scale has created a good deal of commercial excitement . |
| 23 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |
| 24 | Sheffield has a very active Natural History Society , which has accumulated a good knowledge of this city 's fauna . |
| 25 | Diploma Plc , holding company for a portfolio of electronic and construction products businesses , reporting pre-tax profits up 225% at £8.1m , says that industry may be broadly much weaker following a long and debilitating recession , but Diploma has maintained a good level of investment in people as well as plant , and has generally considered the recent years as an opportunity . |
| 26 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 27 | It has achieved a good deal of success in this , enabling some compensation to be made for the diminishing pool of potential recruits on the farms . |
| 28 | The writers are three bright operators from Melbourne 's Age newspaper , their work edited by Patrick Smith , who has assembled a good range of pictures , some in colour , with player profiles dotted among the match reports , and scorecards by Ross Dundas . |
| 29 | English , as distinct from British , culture seems to provide a good example of such a tendency ; it is a culture largely undisturbed by invasion or revolution , difficult for foreigners to plumb , subtle and rich in social allusion at every level . |
| 30 | EURO MP Stephen Hughes will today open a national conference which aims to give a better view of European society . |