Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At this time of the year she sleeps a great deal , ’ said Simon . |
| 2 | She laughs a great deal . |
| 3 | she owes a great deal , not only to her natural gifts , but to your tuition . |
| 4 | ‘ Only that I have an impression that she depends a great deal on the doctor . ’ |
| 5 | However she sees a great deal of hope in Miranda 's situation ; ‘ You can acknowledge that women do let other women down and still be a feminist . |
| 6 | Like the Prince , she takes a great deal of exercise , and frequently leaves the people who escort her on visits around the country struggling to keep up . |
| 7 | She troubles a good deal about the three hours that she 's lost . |
| 8 | The ribbon is made , and thenceforth she spends a great deal of time over her hair . |
| 9 | Jill Duffy is certainly highly involved with the state of her home and she does a great deal of housework that many other people would consider unnecessary . |
| 10 | Because it goes a good deal wider , I will not myself be supporting it . |
| 11 | It involves a good deal which can be called taboo … |
| 12 | The conceptual content required in this case to describe the institution , though it involves a great deal of cultural elaboration , does not display the same kind of break between the pre-cultural and the cultural as is found in the incest case ; and the biological pattern of explanation could recognizably run through such ideas as human beings finding certain institutions ‘ natural ’ , which does not require any appeal to a rational collective agency to understand the basic biological idea , as is damagingly the case with the incest example . |
| 13 | ‘ It involves a great deal more strategic work , ’ she explained . |
| 14 | Mageeba makes no concessions to the white political world yet he understands a great deal about it . |
| 15 | Ben concedes that he owes a great deal of his success to the help he gets from his Mum and Dad . |
| 16 | Like Brahms 's Haydn Variations ( to which it owes a great deal ) , the work was originally published in two versions , one for full orchestra , the other for two pianos with a different final variation . |
| 17 | On the other hand , he has a great deal of confidence in Noorda 's intellectual prowess and innate capitalism to deliver for Sun what Sun needs from USL as USL 's ‘ largest customer ’ : low royalties , available source , open interfaces , technological innovation and resolution of any channel conflict with SunSoft . |
| 18 | He has a great deal of land , his fingers in numerous profit-making pies , owns racehorses — and , of course , the added bonus of being extremely attractive to women . |
| 19 | Basil , my five-year-old has also been working , as he has a great deal to learn to ensure he will begin his eventing career in March filled with confidence . |
| 20 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 21 | Northern Telecom Ltd has reached agreement to manufacture and sell packet switches in China : it says it has a three-year deal with China National Post & Telecommunications Appliance Corp and Nanjing Telecommunications Equipment Factory , and that the manufacturing operation , in Nanjing , will be its third site in China — ‘ With this local manufacturing capability , we can expect to become the leading force in the development of China 's data communications infrastructure , ’ it said . |
| 22 | When an animal is shot or caught in a snare , or chased and caught , it has a great deal of suffering . |
| 23 | Such an approach is not without its difficulties , but it has a great deal of potential , particularly in relation to inner city areas . |
| 24 | As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 25 | In the abstract it has a great deal of force . |
| 26 | As a city it has a great deal to offer — especially to someone like myself who works in the rag trade . |
| 27 | Now this is not perhaps one of the best of Spitzer 's analyses , and in any case it contains a great deal more than we have space to repeat here . |
| 28 | He worries a great deal about the house . ’ |
| 29 | He loves opera , in that the long rehearsal span and run of performances allows him ‘ to get the psychology out of the way in the first few days ’ — clearly , he worries a great deal about the mental interchange with his workforce — but he intends to keep a balance with concert work . |
| 30 | It wants a great deal of working … newspaper office . |