Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his active career as a painter and teacher David Crone has contributed a great deal to the advancement of contemporary visual art in Ireland and has gained a considerable reputation as one of the most important Irish artists at home and internationally . |
| 2 | Rosenthal has rejected a one-year deal to stay at Liverpool but has dismissed the possibility of a move to Turkish club Besiktas , who showed interest last week . |
| 3 | Having left the Army , Drew Benedict had spent a great deal of Sukey 's money buying really good ponies . |
| 4 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |
| 5 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 6 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 7 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 8 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 9 | But Cromwell had cared a good deal about religion , thought Karelius . |
| 10 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 11 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 12 | PAKISTAN spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has struck a three-year deal with Somerset . |
| 13 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 14 | Kopyion had expressed a great deal of interest in these killings but had not passed on all the information available to him . |
| 15 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 16 | And yet Charles Henstock had found a great deal of happiness in later life since his marriage to Dimity . |
| 17 | By this time poor Dr Dunstaple had voided a great deal of " rice-water " fluid and was seized by perpetual , agonizing cramps . |
| 18 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 19 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 20 | All in all , Rocastle has gotten a raw deal from Leeds . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 22 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 23 | Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development . |
| 24 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 25 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 26 | Zukor had risked a great deal in his cover-up of evidence in the Taylor scandal , and he was not going to go through another nightmare , so he decided to have Reid put away . |
| 27 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 28 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 29 | Of course , it is feasible that the Greeks were more sharp-sighted than we are , and certainly their skies were clearer ; but it is equally likely that Merope has dimmed a fair deal over the past few thousand years — in other words , that it is a variable star with a period of at least several thousand years . |
| 30 | Meanwhile close rivals St Helens have completed a short-term deal for Canterbury-Bankstown 's Kiwi Test centre Jarrod McCracken who will be available for the home game with Wakefield Trinity on September 6 . |