Example sentences of "to do a [adj] deal " in BNC.

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1 The flexibility of the FTC offer may enable the Football League to do a combined deal with another TV company , possibly ITV .
2 Teachers are expected to do a good deal of work at home .
3 ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people .
4 Mr Gorbachev would like them to do a great deal more .
5 Inadequate cleaning staff are in a position to do a great deal of damage to an organisation either through actual damage to the fabric or equipment or in terms of food product loss , reputation or image .
6 Her husband kindly returned them to me , and I was able to do a great deal of destruction for myself .
7 I have not been in the House of Lords very long , so on the heritage front , I have n't had the opportunity to do a great deal yet .
8 So , I 'm afraid I was n't able to do a great to do a great deal more on that .
9 ‘ Graphic designers are often asked to do a great deal in a comparatively short space of time , ’ acknowledges Peter Brigg , ‘ but that 's because there 's often no substitute for the printed document .
10 This presents more difficulties for the researcher , who has to do a great deal of interpretation in order to make inferences from what people actually do to their motivations for doing it .
11 I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of
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