Example sentences of "which [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense this tendency was enhanced by the nature of the LEA guidelines , which requested a great deal of factual information in addition to an appraisal , and the advisers themselves who in some cases presented the purpose of the self-appraisal in terms of explaining their practices rather than appraising them . |
| 2 | The popular saying that ‘ Finding is keeping ’ is a dangerous half-truth , which needs a good deal of expansion and qualification to make it square with the law . |
| 3 | It is a subject which needs a great deal of detailed study in close association with work on the production centres , especially in Gaul , and the distribution of their wares . |
| 4 | Studies have indicated that the weight conscious , brainwashed by years of ‘ cut out those carbohydrates ’ advice , tend to avoid the bread and potatoes which supply a good deal of the fibre in most people 's diets . |
| 5 | The theoretical position underlying these interpretations is broadly described as ‘ monetarism ’ , a doctrine which owes a great deal to two American economists , Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman . |
| 6 | The very ubiquity of the mass media removes media as a whole system from the scope of positivist social analysis ; for how may we ‘ measure ’ the ‘ impact ’ of a social force which is omnipresent within social life and which has a great deal to do with constituting it ? |
| 7 | The FBI is keen to set up a joint task force with Scotland Yard to combat the growing number of insurance , investment and banking frauds in the dependencies which cause a great deal of embarrassment to the British Government . |
| 8 | They tend to imply that the item in theme position ( in the case of predicated themes ) or the item in rheme position ( in the case of identifying themes ) is chosen from a set of possible items as the one worthy of the hearer's/reader 's attention : It was the book ( rather than something else ) which received a great deal of publicity in China ; What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity ( rather than bad reviews , for instance ) . |
| 9 | The construction of the Suez Canal — which links the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea , thereby shortening considerably the shipping distance between Europe and the eastern continents — was commenced in 1859 , the same year as Charles Robert Darwin published his ‘ Origins of Species ’ which provoked a great deal of controversy . |
| 10 | Some struggled and cried and tried to escape , which caused a great deal of distress to their watching schoolfriends . |
| 11 | The other reason was that a paternity suit had recently been brought against my opponent by one of the Council office cleaners , which caused a great deal of moral indignation — not so much on the poor woman 's behalf , I 'm afraid , as because it was felt he had ‘ lowered himself ’ . |
| 12 | This again , from the health problems of the early eighteen hundreds , eighteen-twenties , which caused a great deal of pneumonia and chills and fevers and all that because women would insist on wearing muslin and very little else . |
| 13 | This is a grey area which depends a great deal on the actual situation , and it may be worthwhile introducing it to discussions with managers or teachers for the benefit of other nurses , and to share ideas on how you would approach such a problem . |
| 14 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 15 | Another variant of utilitarianism which commanded a good deal of support in fairly recent times was rule as opposed to act utilitarianism . |
| 16 | Filling more than 200 storage boxes , the Tree prompt books and play scripts form the bulk of the Collection , but there are many other items of equal value which shed a great deal of light on Tree 's productions and give valuable insight into Victorian and Edwardian staging . |
| 17 | Sometimes you will be directly addressed by the characters — this is something which happened a great deal in Greek and Elizabethan theatre ( for example , look at the speech by Chorus in Act 4 , scene 1 of Henry V , which draws the audience into the atmosphere before a battle enormously effectively ) . |
| 18 | The gap is narrowed considerably when the comparison is with assembly-line workers , a comparison which reveals a great deal about the nature of housework . |
| 19 | Another important case , which reveals a good deal about the workings of the legislation , is R v Hampshire County Council ex parte J . |
| 20 | From 1860 on , however , a dramatic increase in the number of such works occurred ; a veritable explosion of major publications took place which owed a great deal to the excitement aroused by The Origin of Species . |
| 21 | I found parental " insignificance " a family situation which figured a good deal more often than might be expected from mere chance in the history of dependent individuals . |
| 22 | However , it means that references to added records will require movement of the access heads , which wastes a great deal of time . |
| 23 | The result , as the transcripts and analysis in Report 11 show , can be a charade of pseudo-enquiry which fools nobody , least of all the children , but which wastes a great deal of time . |
| 24 | ‘ This is a matter which requires a good deal of research into the over-all implications of introducing free collection of refuse . |
| 25 | And this is a matter which requires a good deal of research into the overall implications of introducing free collection of refuse , ’ she explained . |
| 26 | As long ago as the late nineteenth century Ravenstein ( 1885 ) had formulated seven general laws of migration which placed a good deal of emphasis on rural depopulation . |
| 27 | However , after combating the poisoning , the fish were vulnerable to secondary infections ( fin rot , velvet etc. ) , which took a great deal of time , patience and hard work to combat . |
| 28 | Staveley Works station was built over the Chesterfield Canal , and served Hollingwood and the Stanton & Staveley works which generated a good deal of freight traffic . |
| 29 | Being involved in a job which necessitates a good deal of physical activity ( housework , unfortunately , does not rate high in this way , in these days of mod. cons. ) , or taking part in a good deal of sport or walking ( that ten-minute daily dozen does n't really rate here , either ) . |
| 30 | There were two friendships which meant a great deal to her . |