Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill and I had a great deal in common . |
| 2 | Her parents would as lief have me as Humphrey , and she 'd a good deal rather . ’ |
| 3 | The farm runs nearly 3,000 sheep and we had a great deal of interest represented by 641 enquiries , 46 viewers and ten who were seriously interested . ’ |
| 4 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 5 | Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data . |
| 6 | On one occasion he kicked at a fence which was enclosing a footpath , saying ' I have no respect for the Whigs , but I have a good deal of the Chartist in me' . |
| 7 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 8 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 9 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 10 | Such an approach is not without its difficulties , but it has a great deal of potential , particularly in relation to inner city areas . |