Example sentences of "do [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm 30 , and I would n't go rushing into anything unexpected but I do think a great deal about this . ’ |
| 2 | We do make a great deal of fuss when children fail to match our expectations particularly when standards of behaviour are concerned . |
| 3 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
| 4 | From the evidence of a 10-country study , Gladstone ( 1984 ) notes that the activities , structure and functions of employers ' associations do show a good deal of inter country variation , often a reflection of distinctive historical experiences and a particular course of industrialisation with resultant differences in the environment in which a country 's industrial relations system has to operate . |
| 5 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 6 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |
| 7 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 8 | Fashion garments may and do cost a great deal , but break down the component parts of that price and the sum paid for the natural fibre fabrics begins to look a little odd . |
| 9 | So er , you know , things did progress a great deal . |
| 10 | In fact I 've known people to go right in , so it , it , it 's not a simple job , you know , and they do take a great deal of risk with this , and I do , I mean it 's much more serious than I think than the government find , it should really work hard to try , to try to find something else . |
| 11 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 12 | So those animals do have a raw deal ! |
| 13 | Er , I agree with them that the elderly do have a bad deal , but if e , if somebody 's got to take money off well surely sho , the government should be taking a cut ten to twenty percent off of their damned wages ! |
| 14 | It works for education authorities and it could work here , but the needs do vary a great deal from locality to locality and are not really suitable for discussion for decision in Whitehall , or to be more accurate Queen Anne 's Gate . |
| 15 | The It never changed all that much , but it did get a great deal closer . |
| 16 | Stress and conflict belong together , and the way we feel about what we do makes a great deal of difference to our inner store of pressures . |
| 17 | ‘ He does eat a great deal of fish ? ’ said Flavia . |
| 18 | But the single patient with x and not y does make a great deal of difference as far as the theoretical use of the concept is concerned . |
| 19 | Yes a hard disk does make a great deal of difference to how easy a machine is to use . |
| 20 | Mammal Ecology by M. J. Delany does not set out specifically to connect ecology with evolution but it does provide a great deal of information packed into its 150 pages . |
| 21 | Apparently , Randy wanted this guitar to be known as the Concorde' and when you take into account its overall shape and sleek appearance it does have a great deal in common with its British Airways equivalent . |
| 22 | The number of books does vary a great deal and your teacher will explain to you exactly how many books are required . |
| 23 | However much , therefore , we might wish to point to Wordsworth 's poem as a pure organic growth , it does owe a great deal to previous epics , both in its form and in its religious content . |
| 24 | This does not demand a high degree of psychotherapeutic experience , but does require a good deal of common-sense . |