Example sentences of "[noun] do a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 2 | Well , anything that you can do there , erm in in the immediate future would obviously be helpful , to support our case for being considered as the er the er European supplier , erm , and likewise with Italy , Spain , and France , not withstanding that at the moment they do n't do a great deal of business , well Spain does a great deal of business , but I do n't suppose is in a position to do much in in the way of technical support , erm , right , |
| 3 | The Victoria Gillick campaign to deny contraceptive advice to girls under sixteen without their parents consent did a great deal of harm in this respect . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Mites did a great deal of touring and were given outdoor clothing , often a hooded cloak , socks and shoes , even a suitcase each . |
| 6 | Between the wars the Germans did a good deal of research on nailed joints and also invented new and clever forms of mechanical connectors . |
| 7 | It was the stage at which the 12 member states did a good deal more to clarify their long-term goals . |
| 8 | So the , the groups are very important though , because the groups do a great deal of the work for Amnesty , cos Amnesty 's different from many organisations erm in that er , what the groups do , particularly the letter writing erm , helps to make the organisation work , it 's not just a matter of raising money , we do things to , to fund raise or two , er have a proper publicity erm , the le the letters we write for prisoners and helps Amnesty to do it 's work and not many other organisations operate like that . |
| 9 | The flexibility of the FTC offer may enable the Football League to do a combined deal with another TV company , possibly ITV . |
| 10 | Charles did a great deal to assist the lot of the Lombardian peasantry whose lives had fared badly during the conflicts that succeeded the Renaissance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Clapham was a committed negotiator , and Kerr did a great deal to assuage the anxieties that existed in the NCDAD and its institutions . |
| 13 | In the United States , it is considered necessary that prospective veterinarians and medical students do a good deal of practice work with animals in order to develop technical abilities , for example , surgical skills … . |
| 14 | No , we have in fact done a great deal to conserve our resources here , er and as I say we have treated er something like 500 patients by the end of this year , addition to what we treated in er the previous year , and that can only be as a result of good management , both nursing and medical . |
| 15 | Many of the colleges with which CNAA committees and visiting parties were dealing — including the new polytechnics — had traditions of autocratic management which the DES did a great deal to undermine with the notes for guidance it issued in connection with the proposed designation of polytechnics . |
| 16 | In actual fact the exchange of Kula valuables does a good deal more than that , though to explain how this comes about would require an extended discussion of Melanesian ethnography which would not be appropriate . |