Example sentences of "doing a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may apply to some African countries , but it is hard to imagine the two biggest aid recipients , Egypt and Bangladesh , doing a great deal more to feed themselves . |
| 2 | Now at the moment the black chemical that 's in there is not doing a great deal . |
| 3 | We shall be doing a great deal of work in the coming months to discourage the government from taking a decision which would send book prices soaring and seriously damage the health of the trade . ’ |
| 4 | Clearly , the United Kingdom and the Community are doing a great deal to assist the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe generally . |
| 5 | At that point we had six teens and early twenties at home and I was doing a great deal of relating to young people . |
| 6 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 7 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |
| 8 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 9 | I said that the Soviet Union was not interested in doing a bilateral deal . |
| 10 | In a passage which is bound to be seen as highly controversial in the present situation in East Germany , Sir Leon said : ‘ If Germany 's partners give the impression of being opposed to reunification this will only increase what is at present a small risk : that some in Germany may be tempted to seek reunification on the basis of doing a unilateral deal with the Soviet Union , involving the setting up of a new unified German state outside the Community . |
| 11 | Sun Microsystems Inc is spreading its favours around , and after doing a big deal with Oracle Corp on its manufacturing software , has now signed a new unlimited use licence for various database products from Sybase Inc , Emeryville , California for deployment in its operations . |