Example sentences of "had [art] [adj] deal " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All agreed they had a rough deal as their work often involved great pain . |
| 2 | We had a good deal of fun doing it . ’ |
| 3 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 4 | The wives of prosperous burgesses also had a good deal of managerial responsibility and authority . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 7 | Harry thought he had a good deal to answer for . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the public still had a good deal of confidence in the armed forces and the police , although both were held in less regard than they were ten years ago . |
| 11 | Well this one of mine , I had a good deal with this one . |
| 12 | Oh he was thrilled , he had a good deal . |
| 13 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 14 | I had the feeling on reading it that a dam had just burst , and that she had a great deal more to say . |
| 15 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |
| 16 | In 1907 , however , the Bondholders had a great deal more at risk than in the 1960 's and the 2:1 arrangement gave them some protection and rights over their own investments and the Club 's destiny . |
| 17 | The wave had a great deal of undertow . |
| 18 | During the 12th century , the Abbot of St Peters had a great deal of construction work carried out , the result of which was the creation of the River Twyver , powering no less than seven monastic mills , all under his control . |
| 19 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 20 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 21 | Oh yeah , thought Henry grimly as he passed 4021a , his coffee threshing around dangerously in its plastic beaker , and Henry Farr had a great deal to say to Ian McEwan as well . |
| 22 | But the Board of Trade had a great deal of latitude to vary the precise details of the arrangement , and insisted that , for discs , the records should bear the stamps , not the sleeves . |
| 23 | The Filmophone Company had a great deal of legal trouble with the British branch of another company , the German ‘ Phonycord GmbH ’ . |
| 24 | They always had a great deal to say , for they knew one another so well . |
| 25 | Susan did n't get up that day , so Breeze had a great deal to do . |
| 26 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 27 | The EAT had a great deal of sympathy with Mr Bowles and considered the employers rather harsh , but nevertheless , the employee 's resignation as a result of his refusal to go to Scotland was neither a termination of contract by the employer nor constructive dismissal . |
| 28 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |
| 29 | One of her earliest pupils , in whom she had a great deal of confidence , was Brighton 's Julie Pullin who poignantly won her first women 's international title on the African satellite , 48 hours before Winnie died , and who went on to win a second title two weeks later . |
| 30 | She told the boys she had been upstairs reading a book on sex and had a great deal of curiosity . |