Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.

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1 Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range .
2 In the abstract it has a great deal of force .
3 But Dickie Arbiter , his spokesman , said : ‘ He is not badly injured he can walk but obviously as with all back problems it hurts a good deal . ’
4 You indicated that er in a sense the strike became well organized in the sense it had a great deal of support erm both moral and material and presumably financial .
5 I 'm afraid that when I dropped out of sight it created a great deal of concern in the village .
6 Now this is not perhaps one of the best of Spitzer 's analyses , and in any case it contains a great deal more than we have space to repeat here .
7 As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’
8 As a city it has a great deal to offer — especially to someone like myself who works in the rag trade .
9 No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it .
10 But although his mind was detached from day-to-day events it brooded a good deal on longer-term considerations .
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