Example sentences of "a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debbie Beckerman at Transworld has bought from agent Jane Judd the memoirs of jockey Lester Piggott , to be written with his daughter , journalist and television presenter Tracy Piggott , as the third title of a three-book deal for Partridge Press . |
| 2 | Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson has commissioned a life of Barbara Cartland from Tim Heald , as part of a three-book deal which also includes a book about the final year before the handover of Hong Kong to China , The Last Governor , and a third ‘ highly confidential ’ project . |
| 3 | ‘ We tried for the best part of 18 months to get Dowty to agree to a friendly deal , but both the old chairman , Lord Harrowby , and the new chairman , Roy Roberts , refused . |
| 4 | But the OFT could outlaw the plan if it uncovers a back-door deal between the banks to penalise customers who stay in the black . |
| 5 | You can make a private deal with insurance companies to insure your legs for a million pounds if they are your sole way of earning a living ! |
| 6 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |
| 7 | That meant the way was now open for him to strike a private deal . |
| 8 | They also accuse the government of entering into a private deal with the US company , and have called for the project to be opened to tender by local and foreign companies , with guarantees of a minimum 51 per cent stake for Czechoslovak companies . |
| 9 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 10 | A solid deal , and possibly a relaunch of the product , will happen by year-end , says Interactive . |
| 11 | US prosecutors and lawyers for Imelda Marcos , widow of the late Philippines president , have discussed a possible deal for her to plead guilty and make a full disclosure in a racketeering case in exchange for a suspended sentence , Manila 's chief government lawyer said yesterday . |
| 12 | With Labour and the Liberal Democrats still arguing over the terms of a possible deal based on proportional representation , the Tories intensified their attack on Mr Kinnock 's suitability for high office and the impact on sterling and interest rates of a Labour victory . |
| 13 | Chinese diplomats , who have long been close to both the prince and the Khmers Rouges , have outlined the shape of a possible deal to some of their western counterparts . |
| 14 | Ferruzzi is hunting for partners for its troubled chemicals businesses , and is talking with Royal Dutch/Shell about a possible deal in plastics . |
| 15 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 16 | The Met office has just agreed a prestigious deal with the International Civil Aviation Organisation to provide weather data to airlines all over the world . |
| 17 | With a total deal value of £960 million the fourth quarter was the strongest , showing an increase of £340 million over the third quarter but a rise of just £20 million over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 18 | At the beginning of last year it agreed in principle a 15-year deal covering fuel supplies and reprocessing at a cost of £2.7 billion , but the contracts have not yet been signed . |
| 19 | The project is part of a two-way deal , in which France would have a chunk of a Belgium reactor , Doel 5 . |
| 20 | Quorum will also announce a long-awaited deal with Adobe Systems Inc to license its software developers ' Latitude for converting its Macintosh programs to the Unix system under Display PostScript , Motif or Open Look . |
| 21 | Quorum will also announce a long-awaited deal with Adobe Systems Inc to license its software developers ' Latitude for porting its Mac programs to the Unix platform under Display Postscript , Motif or Open Look . |
| 22 | The agreement included a production-sharing deal . |
| 23 | The US company backed with British money has made a hasty deal to put its much-publicised camera on general sale in Britain after Easter . |
| 24 | He knows that a profitable deal can just as easily be struck over a caesar salad and glass of mineral water as over a T-bone steak and bottle of vintage claret . |
| 25 | He will team up with Widnes star John Devereux who agreed a short-term deal with Manly coach Graham Lowe last week . |
| 26 | And Leeds hope to wrap up a short-term deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner in the next three or four days . |
| 27 | Meanwhile close rivals St Helens have completed a short-term deal for Canterbury-Bankstown 's Kiwi Test centre Jarrod McCracken who will be available for the home game with Wakefield Trinity on September 6 . |
| 28 | The flexibility of the FTC offer may enable the Football League to do a combined deal with another TV company , possibly ITV . |
| 29 | Er what I 've just described is a complete deal so that |
| 30 | So there are three things we want from er to er for a complete deal . |