Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] a good deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 2 | This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive . |
| 3 | For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful . |
| 4 | Since then the assumptions underpinning , and the meanings attributed to , census data have changed a good deal . |
| 5 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |
| 9 | But Cromwell had cared a good deal about religion , thought Karelius . |
| 10 | China 's conservation efforts have received a good deal of attention and it has been difficult to sort out myth from reality . |
| 11 | The British government 's approval of cable networks to distribute information and entertainment on a national or regional scale has created a good deal of commercial excitement . |
| 12 | To date , feminism has contributed a good deal of fuel to both sides of this dialectic , because the case of women is a peculiar one , and introduces even more complications into an already troublesome argument . |
| 13 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 14 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 15 | Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development . |
| 16 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 17 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 18 | Over the last thirty years the achievements of physiologists and psychologists in studying dreaming have received a good deal of attention in the media , much of it sensationalist , so one might expect some of this information to have percolated through to become common knowledge . |
| 19 | The aromatic strength of the leaves has ensured a good deal of domestic and perfumery use , and it is also decorative , its pale blue flowers lasting many weeks and being much visited by bees . |
| 20 | But if your company has retained a good deal of discretion on key matters , it may be able to impose major changes on your working life without giving rise to a constructive dismissal claim . |
| 21 | Is the Minister aware that , while the science research councils have fared badly under the present Government , the humanities have fared a good deal worse under the direct rule of his Department ? |
| 22 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 23 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |