Example sentences of "they [vb base] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them give a great deal of importance to using weak forms , but do not stress the importance of also knowing when to use the strong forms , something which I feel is very important . |
| 2 | ‘ And your conclusions are far from worthless , they make a good deal of sense to me . |
| 3 | It is well known that when parents talk to young children they repeat a great deal of what the child says ( and , of course , also expand it ) . |
| 4 | They want a fair deal and , under the Administration of my right hon. Friend the Member for Islywn ( Mr. Kinnock ) , justice and fair play is what they will get . |
| 5 | They place a great deal of importance on the power of positive thought . |
| 6 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 7 | They are not designed basically to protect animals and , as has already been mentioned , they depend a great deal upon the use of the animal . |
| 8 | They vary a good deal depending on the distance between the critics ' positions and outlooks and Barth 's own . |
| 9 | I must admit I , I really do n't agree with that , I mean I find that many women who have had erm children actually their figure has improved after the children , they look a great deal better and I certainly do n't think that many women in Scotland looked vast after they 've had children , I totally disagree with that . |
| 10 | It is also true that many older people , who were trained rigorously in the disciplines of study fashionable before 1960 , think that they know a great deal about language , but in fact imbibed many false notions from their schooling . |
| 11 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 12 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
| 13 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 14 | A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation . |
| 15 | They get a good deal really do n't they ? |
| 16 | Whether they are in a particular building in one place or another , actually I could n't give a monkey 's as a parent , and I do n't care where the school is as long as I can get my kids there and they get a good deal . |
| 17 | However , there are some products which are likely to be of particular interest to older people and some areas where mechanisms are needed to ensure they get a fair deal . |
| 18 | When it comes to sex talk in the classroom boys , both girls and boys reckon they get a raw deal . |
| 19 | Irrespective of the merit of these particular observations ( and indeed of this particular poem ) , it is clear that once formal patterns of equivalence are connected to relations of meaning , as they are here , they become a good deal more interesting . |
| 20 | They offer a good deal if interest rates , high at the time of purchase , subsequently fall . |
| 21 | One is scratching — not the ground ( which they do a great deal ) but of themselves . |
| 22 | It is true that when they use words like " aggression " and - " altruism " ( which they do a great deal ) they make a pretence that they have somehow dissociated these terms from their human behavioural origins — but it is only a pretence . |
| 23 | We have dealt at some length with these important , if abortive , proposals because they throw a great deal of light on the complexities surrounding the financial control and management of public sector higher education and because they have influenced the subsequent debate concerning the need for some form of central control . |
| 24 | They require a great deal of digital information to describe them . |
| 25 | Every one is different , everyone has its own pattern of possible rat runs and they take a great deal of er er |
| 26 | There 's a lot of adrenalin flowing , and erm they realise that there are pink bodies on the line , and they take a great deal of care in preparing the outfit before they go . |
| 27 | A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt. |
| 28 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 29 | Whether they be Asian African or European , they have a great deal more in common than most of their respective citizens would have with one another . |
| 30 | They have a great deal of love and affection for the small stores , and the Minister will go down in history as the woman who wrecked them . |