Example sentences of "[vb past] a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent . |
| 2 | In the old large hospitals it was sometimes difficult to detect the strong mutual , informal relationships which developed amongst patients and provided a good deal of support , and , unfortunately , often little account was taken of these relationships when patients were moved from the hospitals into the community . |
| 3 | Such publications must be treated critically ; Namier provided a good example of the deflation of a quasi-official authoritativeness in his review of the Survey of International Affairs , 1938 published by the authoritative Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House ) . |
| 4 | Education provided a good example of the accommodation feminists had to make in regard to scientific theories of sexual difference and the ambivalence many of them felt about the whole issue . |
| 5 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
| 6 | The outcome ( perhaps this would have happened whoever had been at the Ministry of Labour ) was that most of the principal figures of the Government devoted a good part of their time to assisting Steel-Maitland in his job . |
| 7 | Finally , he devoted a good deal of attention to the problem of the implications of his general historical approach for understanding the character of Christianity itself , particularly in The Absoluteness of Christianity ( 1901 ; E.T . |
| 8 | As a run up to this , the London-based group devoted a good deal of management time to restructuring the US operations , mainly in the sphere of sales and customer support . |
| 9 | Self and Ernest Long , the secretary , devoted a good deal of thought to methods of budgetary control which would make decentralisation possible , but the headquarters engineers , still deeply distrustful of anything from Self , had little conception of the financial and management principles of decentralisation . |
| 10 | He also devoted a good deal of his investigations to the extraordinary satin bower-bird , a native of the area and so called for its remarkable habit of building and decorating a sort of stage-set , in which it would perform ritual mating dances . |
| 11 | I succeeded almost immediately and found a good alignment of moats ending at Gill 's Lap pine clump on Ashdown Forest , one of the marks noted by Tony Wedd . |
| 12 | When Beatrice visited the canteen in October 1914 she found a good deal of atmosphere , although there was no beer or wine . |
| 13 | I had the opportunity to visit the north-west on Monday , where I found a good deal of buoyancy and confidence in the future of the north-west and of the country as a whole . |
| 14 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 15 | Another spate of serious raids stopped this , and the organist , now choirmaster as well , found a good supply of scores of ‘ Olivet to Calvary ’ by J. Maunder . |
| 16 | He caught a good couple of pounds of roach on ledgered casters from bites that were all but invisible . |
| 17 | The post was very interesting and involved a good blend of research , teaching and clinical work . |
| 18 | It was unpopular politically , as it involved a good deal of compulsion , and did not survive the chaos of independence . |
| 19 | Franchises were re-allocated by competition in 1964 , 1967 and 1981 , and although there was each time a public invitation and a grand interview , the procedure involved a good deal of preliminary contact and discussion , not least about such important but apparently secondary factors as studio locations and offices . |
| 20 | I would add that toy manufacturers used a good deal of imagination and licence when they produced their models , perhaps not taking into account the keen eye and future criticism of FlyPast readers ! |
| 21 | More 's eloquence has set the tone for much historical writing on the subject , but while one should not deny that enclosures created a good deal of suffering , one should also remember that More was exaggerating his points for the sake of effect . |
| 22 | Creed received a good deal of spin-off publicity . |
| 23 | The argument that is to be found most frequently in the writings of the philosophers who held this conception does not in fact relate to colours and sounds , though colours and sounds certainly received a good deal of attention . |
| 24 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 25 | Another variant of utilitarianism which commanded a good deal of support in fairly recent times was rule as opposed to act utilitarianism . |
| 26 | A subject which , I thought drily , afforded a good deal of scope for liars . |
| 27 | This caused a good deal of consternation and dismay in Westminster . |
| 28 | This , naturally , caused a good deal of gossip . |
| 29 | This work , rather like the reverse of an Anglo-Saxon coin , caused a good deal of destructive amusement among the other boys , but Basil , in the end and in a very clever way made his valuation of this boy 's work real to them too . |
| 30 | At the time , Atkinson provoked a good deal of disgruntlement amongst university librarians , of which Steele 's book contained some representative examples . |