Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] a good deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive . |
| 2 | For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | China 's conservation efforts have received a good deal of attention and it has been difficult to sort out myth from reality . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |