Example sentences of "that [vb -s] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the highest scoring fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain , Bob Doe has written an interesting book that goes a good deal further than describing some of his exploits in the Battle . |
| 2 | If this is the case then society and organisations , far from being pluralist in nature , are , in fact , elitist so that on any given issue there may be a small group that exercises a great deal of power . |
| 3 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 4 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
| 5 | Erm , amendment that need to be made to this words housing waiting list , we in fact no longer have a standard housing waiting list but have a housing needs register erm that says a great deal about the system that we have is that it 's judged on people 's housing need and not on their income . |
| 6 | Why am I not allowed to feel the same about something that means a great deal to me ? ’ she retorted fiercely . |
| 7 | Even a spreadsheet that does a great deal of calculation will only speed up by around 25% or so . |