Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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1 | ( How would my life change if I had a great deal of money ? |
2 | Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft . |
3 | Bill and I had a great deal in common . |
4 | ‘ I do n't think I had a great deal to do with it . ’ |
5 | Well this one of mine , I had a good deal with this one . |
6 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
7 | ‘ I have a good deal of experience in staff relations , ’ he said . |
8 | On one occasion he kicked at a fence which was enclosing a footpath , saying ' I have no respect for the Whigs , but I have a good deal of the Chartist in me' . |
9 | I have a great deal of essential data on infant behavior that I am using as control material . |
10 | I have a great deal of sympathy for Karl Popper 's confessed life-long dislike about theorising about God . |
11 | I have a great deal for which to thank her . |
12 | ‘ I have a great deal of trust and I leave everything to fate . ’ |
13 | ‘ I have a great deal to do , ’ she said in a dismissively grown-up voice . |
14 | I have a great deal of confidence in the management team on the clinical side at Basildon and Orsett . |
15 | I have a great deal to say . |
16 | I have a great deal of sympathy for the hon. Gentleman , because I am sure that all hon. Members are annoyed when they do not receive replies to letters . |
17 | I have a great deal of respect for the officials and managers of my local offices . |
18 | I have a great deal to do . |
19 | I have a great deal to do . ’ |
20 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
21 | I have a great deal of sympathy with all these organisations anyway , and the tremendous number of volunteers that come out on the days . |
22 | The very ubiquity of the mass media removes media as a whole system from the scope of positivist social analysis ; for how may we ‘ measure ’ the ‘ impact ’ of a social force which is omnipresent within social life and which has a great deal to do with constituting it ? |
23 | The Parler family was an architectural one , the members of which had a great deal of influence on Gothic architecture both in Czechoslovakia and further afield to Vienna and Milan . |
24 | Even if you are drawn against an élite performer who has a great deal of experience , the fact that you may be younger , hungrier , fitter could be to your advantage . |
25 | Her parents would as lief have me as Humphrey , and she 'd a good deal rather . ’ |
26 | ‘ I do n't see you have a great deal of choice , ’ he drawled , ‘ unless of course you wish to walk home — in which case you may as well forget our agreement . |
27 | Do you have a secret deal with Oxfam ? |
28 | I had the feeling on reading it that a dam had just burst , and that she had a great deal more to say . |
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 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |