Example sentences of "have a good deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | That stew of Celt and Teuton , Magyar , Slav , Latin and Scandinavian which comprises contemporary Europe has a good deal of experience in common , not just of wars , but in terms of underlying social and intellectual structures . |
| 2 | Ghofar has a good deal in common with Last Suspect , the 50–1 shot on whom this sagacious Welshman won the 1985 Grand National . |
| 3 | The once-familiar Victorian grime has gone — along with many of the buildings which it coated — and so , regrettably , has a good deal of the local character . |
| 4 | He 's in his late forties , tall , has a good deal of rather wild , greying hair , and a cardigan that must have been home-made . |
| 5 | It also has a good deal to do with how we look . |
| 6 | The new picture-reader has a good deal to learn . |
| 7 | In sum then , though the Supplement has a good deal more to commend it than its 1977 parent , it comes across as a car-orientated guide , static in outlook and narrow-minded in perspective . |
| 8 | The New Testament has a good deal to say with respect to church administration . |
| 9 | In addition to the benefits conferred by Development Zone status , Tadchester has a good deal to offer the industrialist . |
| 10 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 11 | The forensic laboratory has a good deal of work to do on his clothes , and the contents of his pockets . |
| 12 | Her parents would as lief have me as Humphrey , and she 'd a good deal rather . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink . |
| 14 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 15 | He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues . |
| 16 | Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this . |
| 17 | We 're going to have to close , alas , because it 's been very interesting , and er er er a very diverse , ninety six people think animals should have a better deal , seventy seven think that the use of animals in research is justified at ti , from time to time , and well over seventy |
| 18 | You may have a good deal of ups and downs and hard work ahead of you , but sweating on a ridge is , in my opinion , far preferable to plodding up a hillside or toiling along a zig-zag path to a top . |
| 19 | We shall have a good deal more to say about this in a later chapter . |
| 20 | ‘ We shall have a good deal to discuss , you know . |
| 21 | Monitor theory and reinforcement theory would seem to have a good deal in common . |
| 22 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 23 | We had a good deal of fun doing it . ’ |
| 24 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 25 | The wives of prosperous burgesses also had a good deal of managerial responsibility and authority . |
| 26 | Despite their distinctiveness , they had a good deal in common with the other upper-class groups ; and they were an important source of loans for the growing group of entrepreneurs . |
| 27 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 28 | Harry thought he had a good deal to answer for . |
| 29 | But in Franconia Louis the German clearly had a good deal of support , and his power-base in Bavaria held firm : no churchman from there attended Lothar 's assembly at Ingelheim . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the underlying sentiment had a good deal to do with Iraq 's inability to stand by the treaty it had signed with Britain at Portsmouth in 1948 , and resentment aroused by post-war developments in Palestine did little to help . |