Example sentences of "[adv] had a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After James II had been overthrown , a new system of government began to develop under which Parliament met every year and voted taxes annually , the King chose ministers who were acceptable to Parliament , the administrative departments became independent of direct royal intervention ( though the King still had a great deal of authority over his ministers ) and Parliament took responsibility for national financial policy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They always had a great deal to say , for they knew one another so well . |
| 5 | The wives of prosperous burgesses also had a good deal of managerial responsibility and authority . |
| 6 | He also had a great deal of ability , but like all the older ones had to leave school and go out to work to help support the family once he reached the end of primary school . |
| 7 | How to define the topic for discussion is obviously a difficult one , as Nash admitted in his own study , which had ostensibly a broader subject for its title , but which also had a great deal to say about jokes . |
| 8 | The brother-sister marriages of Roman Egypt probably had a great deal to do with the preservation of property and nothing to do with the preservation of genes ( Hopkins , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 11 | Mr Thornton 's position may be more sympathetically received today , when ‘ paternalism ’ has become a dirty word ; but if , as a later critic was to claim , such philanthropists as Dorothea wished only to fulfil their own personal sentiment of pity and justice , and could not escape the disability of their arbitrary self-appointment , they undoubtedly had a great deal to contribute in the absence of state measures to fill the gap . |