Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 31 | The author has condensed a great deal of material into just over 400 pages and presents it in a reasonably readable style . |
| 32 | The band had wanted a major deal for at least two years previously , but were determined to play it cool . |
| 33 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 34 | Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets . |
| 35 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 36 | The Stotherts have invested a great deal of time in their house . |
| 37 | This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion . |
| 38 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 39 | The right hon. Gentleman has done a great deal during his period in the House for disabled people and everyone in the House admires him for what he has done , but he must know that there have been dramatic improvements in recent years in the scope , range and value of benefits and in the number of disabled people who receive them . |
| 40 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has spent a great deal of his speech talking about the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 41 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |
| 42 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 43 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 44 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 45 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 46 | But Cromwell had cared a good deal about religion , thought Karelius . |
| 47 | The Cuban director of immigration had made a great deal of money from previous boatloads of Jews ; the President of Cuba had not made enough money from them . |
| 48 | I would have to say that social conditions have changed a great deal today , going back to what the first |
| 49 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 50 | China 's conservation efforts have received a good deal of attention and it has been difficult to sort out myth from reality . |
| 51 | Would you say that things have changed a great deal from the days when you finished your drama school training at Central in 1966 ? |
| 52 | Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " . |
| 53 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 54 | PAKISTAN spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has struck a three-year deal with Somerset . |
| 55 | ‘ The Fisheries Commission has made a big deal of the fact that hundreds of nets have been seized . |
| 56 | The Food Magazine has achieved a great deal in a very short time , and the national press regards it as a reliable source of information . |
| 57 | Organised by Lingotto Fiere , this exhibition has invested a great deal of its hopes in a rigorous vetting system which is intended to bring the level of buyer reassurance up to that , for example , of the Grosvenor House Fair . |
| 58 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 59 | ‘ Her royal example has meant a great deal . ’ |
| 60 | In spite of their own self-criticism , however , from a comparative perspective the district had achieved a great deal , surviving a punishing change agenda and formidable financial difficulties . |