Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tranmere wasted a good deal of splendid midfield work in the first half with long-range speculative shots into the stand . |
| 2 | Thomas Arnold made a great deal out of the distinction between the concept of service and the pursuit of profit . |
| 3 | The fact that Marianne places a great deal of store by marriage but not its permanence comes as no surprise to Warren Colman . |
| 4 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |
| 5 | Even a writer as far removed from the field covered in this book as John Le Carré owes a great deal , in all but his latest work , to the blueprint detective story . |
| 6 | Creed received a good deal of spin-off publicity . |
| 7 | Dyble added the conversion and another big victory looked on the cards , but Basingstoke showed a good deal of spirit in the final half-hour . |
| 8 | Arguably the most turbulent priest in the Anglo-Saxon experience , Wilfrid spent a great deal of his mature life entering into and returning from exiles imposed by English kings with whom he had quarrelled . |
| 9 | WEST INDIES pace bowler Courtney Walsh has asked agent Jonathan Barnett to negotiate a new deal with Gloucestershire that will earn him as much from county cricket as Pakistan stars Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis . |
| 10 | Lady Grubb knew a great deal about antiques and owned some beautiful pieces , but she topped up the genuine furnishings with reproduction Jacobean coffee tables and plastic cruets . |
| 11 | In the early stages of his political career , Ian Paisley depended a great deal on the Free Presbyterian Church , largely because it was through his evangelistic work that he had become well known . |
| 12 | North lent a good deal of encouragement to Thomas Dowling , ‘ the priest for the contras ’ , who was called in by Calero to say Mass in the camps in Honduras ; but Dowling found the contras drifting , rather than committed . |
| 13 | FELIPE was n't there and Maggie experienced a great deal of cowardly relief . |
| 14 | Russia has a great deal of natural resources . |
| 15 | The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort . |
| 16 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 17 | It made Ronni feel a great deal better to say that . |
| 18 | Leapor and Freemantle spent a good deal of their time talking about poetry and religion . |
| 19 | Well , anything that you can do there , erm in in the immediate future would obviously be helpful , to support our case for being considered as the er the er European supplier , erm , and likewise with Italy , Spain , and France , not withstanding that at the moment they do n't do a great deal of business , well Spain does a great deal of business , but I do n't suppose is in a position to do much in in the way of technical support , erm , right , |
| 20 | These are by no means unusual examples , and Tannen spends a great deal of her paper speculating on why we do it . |
| 21 | Sandrin left none ; Certon left a great deal but it is mostly frivolous or feeble . |
| 22 | At the time , the appointment of a practising artist rather than an academic to the Tretyakov evoked a great deal of criticism . |
| 23 | Helen read a great deal . |
| 24 | The Kaiser Corporation has a similar deal in New Zealand . |
| 25 | Something of an antiquarian , Goddard collected a great deal of ( chiefly ) Norfolk documents upon which later historians were to draw , notably Francis Blomefield ( 1705–1752 , q.v. ) for his classic History ( 1739 ) of the county . |
| 26 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 27 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 28 | The £100 million-a-year contract is conditional on PowerGen agreeing a parallel deal with British Coal . |
| 29 | The music consists largely of madrigals , though there is a good deal of purely chordal writing ; the solos by Caccini , Cavalieri , and Peri have a great deal of coloratura , as in this ‘ Ecco con due risposte ’ by Peri in the fifth intermedio : |
| 30 | McCreery wanted a two-year deal after an impressive season on the field and his first taste of management . |