Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a good deal " in BNC.

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1 A central feature of the government 's binary policy and the concept of a ‘ public sector ’ was the decision to concentrate a good deal of advanced work in a new generation of ‘ polytechnics ’ — a title borrowed from an earlier response to technological and economic demand — the generation of polytechnics created in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century .
2 The peasant was witnessing members of an informal group of earth scientists known as the International Crustal Research Drilling Group ( ICRDG ) during the early stages of an intriguing and seemingly paradoxical research venture : probing into a mountain range to learn a good deal about the ocean floor .
3 I have suggested in this article that an influential forum of scholars , critics and performers in England has felt a pervasive desire to direct a good deal of medieval and Renaissance music away from the ‘ medieval/Renaissance group ’ ( a tradition which has come to seem increasingly hollow , even bogus , to members of the forum ) and towards the best voices to emerge from the chapels attached to the Oxbridge colleges where , almost without exception , the members of the forum received their higher education .
4 In conclusion it should be noted that power already exists to utilise delegated legislation to go a good deal of the way along the road proposed by the Royal Commission .
5 These are legitimate issues on which it would be perfectly in order for the House to spend a good deal of time next week .
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