Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I served on the island many years later and became friendly with a host of people , and I personally researched a great deal on our raid when not a single bomb fell on the seaplane base . |
| 2 | I have some sympathy for the Home Secretary in these matters , he is not an Officer of State who over-occupies the position for whom I normally have a great deal of sympathy I must confess , er but on this occasion I do have some sympathy . |
| 3 | I still have a great deal to learn . |
| 4 | I also knew a great deal about it for , in the records room at the Bodleian , there was a tin trunk irreverently nicknamed ‘ Miss Jourdain 's baby ’ by the staff . |
| 5 | I also did a great deal of amateur acting with the Progress Theatre in Reading . |
| 6 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |
| 7 | They learn from me , and I also learn a great deal from them . |
| 8 | ‘ I now have a great deal of choice about everything I do , which is the great blessing of old age . |
| 9 | In my childhood I certainly heard a great deal of ‘ physicalistic ’ speech , such as ‘ Is n't she sweet ? |
| 10 | A single-union agreement was negotiated with the Amalgamated Engineering Union ( AEU ) , which effectively provided a no-strike deal for Nissan . |
| 11 | They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , he does report many developments in the American social scene , which obviously owe a great deal to the careful monitoring of many local newspapers . |
| 13 | Perhaps , the most appealing factor of a duvet is its apparent lightness which also retains a great deal of warmth . |
| 14 | How to define the topic for discussion is obviously a difficult one , as Nash admitted in his own study , which had ostensibly a broader subject for its title , but which also had a great deal to say about jokes . |
| 15 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 16 | In establishing their ancestry , little reference is ever made to the surrealists , who obviously contributed a great deal to the contestation of realism — this seems to arise mainly from a dislike of the practice of automatic writing . |
| 17 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 18 | And while she always spent a great deal of time and money on their Christmas presents , they only ever sent her a packet of scented drawer liners or a box of soap . |
| 19 | However thick the dust on your bookshelves may be you will either be reassured that you still remember a great deal of what you originally learnt from your training and former jobs , or you will be seized by momentary panic at how much you have forgotten . |
| 20 | ’ Rock stars are always being asked to help charities , ’ sighs Sting , while Lenny Henry , who also gives a great deal of his time and resources to good causes , illustrates the bad effect charity appearances can have on your own career . |
| 21 | Royal Cedar was a fourth winner from only eight runners for first season trainer , John McConnochie , who clearly paid a great deal of attention when assistant to Mercy Rimell . |
| 22 | But she also spends a great deal of time walking and studying , in the day , at night . |
| 23 | And , in spite of the fact that she now knew a great deal more about the missing man , she still had no answer to the essential question : had she been examining the life of a victim of violent crime , or that of a murderer ? |
| 24 | Sometimes common ground is apparent without needing to say anything : when we 're influencing others who have the same job as ourselves , or similar type of backgrounds or lifestyles , we already have a great deal in common . |
| 25 | In any event , come again , we always have a great deal of variety here at the theatre and if you are a speedy worker , you should do very well . ’ |
| 26 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
| 27 | We also learned a good deal from that questionnaire about the kind of support and services you would like to see provided by the Alumni Office . |
| 28 | At the same time , it is from Luke that one also learns a great deal about the Nazarean Party . |
| 29 | On the contrary , we now know a great deal about Jesus 's milieu , and far more than most practising Christians realise about Palestine in the first century — its sociology , its economy , its politics , its cultural and religious character , its historical actuality . |
| 30 | Although we now know a great deal about person identification by face , we know very little about voice identification and almost nothing about how face and voice information are combined . |