Example sentences of "[adv] do a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday . |
| 2 | Now at the moment the black chemical that 's in there is not doing a great deal . |
| 3 | He held McAllister 's hand for a little longer than propriety might demand , and the pair of them stood for a moment , rapt , until the surgery boy , who ran the doctor 's errands on his bike , delivered prescriptions and generally did a great deal of donkey work , knocked on the door before he came in , saying excitedly and importantly , ‘ You 're wanted , Dr Neil , sir . |
| 4 | I also did a great deal of amateur acting with the Progress Theatre in Reading . |
| 5 | ‘ Mabs ’ , as she was affectionately called , also did a great deal of choreography . |
| 6 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |
| 7 | Every letter contains a message — it may confirm an order , complain about a late delivery or clarify a point — but it also does a great deal more . |
| 8 | ‘ She did n't do a great deal else , did she ? |
| 9 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 10 | Without Gesner and the rest of the cast they could n't do a great deal , but the Maritza scenes with Freddi could be rehearsed and several other small fragments of the three old operettas . |
| 11 | 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 , |
| 12 | respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I |
| 13 | There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it . |
| 14 | His failure to gain much of Bavaria in 1778–79 , to exchange the whole electorate for the Austrian Netherlands some years later ( see pp. 303–5 below ) , or to achieve real military success against the Turks in the war of 1788–90 , undoubtedly did a good deal to increase the difficulties he faced within his own dominions . |
| 15 | She has recently done a six-figure deal with Carol Smith for world volume rights in three books by ‘ bestselling novelist and TV personality ’ Denise Robertson , the first of which will be published in September 1994 . |
| 16 | ‘ We certainly do a good deal of counselling these days , ’ Rachel agreed . |