Example sentences of "have [verb] a good deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the effects on trade union activity , a further implication of cross-national bargaining structures which has received a good deal of attention concerns their economic consequences . |
| 2 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
| 3 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 4 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 5 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 6 | This early framework for sensory physiology — of a piece with the Hobbesian idea of ‘ the organ proper to each sense ’ — has undergone a good deal of refinement . |
| 7 | The aromatic strength of the leaves has ensured a good deal of domestic and perfumery use , and it is also decorative , its pale blue flowers lasting many weeks and being much visited by bees . |
| 8 | If the vendor is to feel that he has secured a good deal , then he , like the buyer , must feel that he has won some concessions . |
| 9 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 10 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 11 | Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development . |
| 12 | But in no way can effective environmental policies be rendered compatible with the anti-statist , non-interventionist creed which has inspired a good deal of Thatcherite rhetoric . |
| 13 | To date , feminism has contributed a good deal of fuel to both sides of this dialectic , because the case of women is a peculiar one , and introduces even more complications into an already troublesome argument . |
| 14 | This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive . |
| 15 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 16 | But if your company has retained a good deal of discretion on key matters , it may be able to impose major changes on your working life without giving rise to a constructive dismissal claim . |
| 17 | The British government 's approval of cable networks to distribute information and entertainment on a national or regional scale has created a good deal of commercial excitement . |
| 18 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |
| 19 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 20 | It has achieved a good deal of success in this , enabling some compensation to be made for the diminishing pool of potential recruits on the farms . |
| 21 | And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was . |
| 22 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 23 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 24 | To do so , they will have to issue a good deal more paper than they would normally like . |
| 25 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 26 | She may have cried a good deal without understanding why . |
| 27 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 28 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 29 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 30 | Since I find novelists tend to say it better than sociologists , let me quote from one who seems to have anticipated a good deal of what was to come after the period when we had never had it so good : |