Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] deal of " in BNC.
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| 1 | i ) Films of risky junctions tend to contain a great deal of information related to risk . |
| 2 | The sad story of the decline of the African elephant mainly due to ivory poaching has received a great deal of much-needed publicity . |
| 3 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 4 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 5 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 6 | The latter class has received a great deal of attention recently because homologous sequences have been found as domains contained within larger DNA binding proteins such as the nucleolar transcription factor hUBF ( 3 ) , mitochondrial transcription factor 1 ( 4 ) , sex-determining region Y ( SRY ) ( 5 , 6 ) , lymphoid enhancer binding factor I ( LEF-1 ) ( 7 ) , a T-cell specific transcription factor TCF-1α ( 8 ) , and the yeast autonomously replicating sequence factor ABF2 ( 9 ) . |
| 7 | As well as the effects on trade union activity , a further implication of cross-national bargaining structures which has received a good deal of attention concerns their economic consequences . |
| 8 | The role of community education in the process of social change has aroused a great deal of discussion and action by socially committed adult educators over the last two decades . |
| 9 | That has aroused a great deal of fear and was referred to in a recent Health and Safety Executive report . |
| 10 | The House has given a great deal of detailed attention to the Bill , and the promoters and the petitioners have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the case . |
| 11 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | The general practice fundholding scheme , which was introduced as part of the package of organisational reforms to the NHS in April 1991 , has attracted a great deal of comment . |
| 14 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 15 | Over the last two decades the study of code switching has attracted a great deal of interest from researchers working in different areas of linguistics . |
| 16 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
| 17 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 18 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 19 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 20 | This early framework for sensory physiology — of a piece with the Hobbesian idea of ‘ the organ proper to each sense ’ — has undergone a good deal of refinement . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Marketing has spawned a great deal of ‘ mumbo-jumbo ’ but its prevailing theme is people , at the heart of our business are the children and their parents and the community that we all serve . |
| 23 | ‘ He was depressed and has suffered a great deal of mental anguish . ’ |
| 24 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 25 | Since those days she has done a great deal of work with Steven Berkoff — particularly in his play for two people , Decadence which she has played in London , Los Angeles and Dublin . |
| 26 | The appointment of Bernard Gallacher as British National Coach three years ago , was another boost for the women 's game — ‘ He has done a great deal of good , ’ confirmed Sally Hepburn — and the LGU was delighted when the Wentworth professional agreed to continue his duties this season , despite the distraction of captaining the European Ryder Cup side at Kiawah Island in September . |
| 27 | Similarly , the Transport 2000 group , which has done a great deal of work on this matter , has discovered beyond doubt that the interests of consumers in England and Wales have not been protected by privatisation . |
| 28 | He has done a great deal of important work to expose the problem and to help us find a solution to it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |