Example sentences of "he [vb -s] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mageeba makes no concessions to the white political world yet he understands a great deal about it . |
| 2 | Ben concedes that he owes a great deal of his success to the help he gets from his Mum and Dad . |
| 3 | On the other hand , he has a great deal of confidence in Noorda 's intellectual prowess and innate capitalism to deliver for Sun what Sun needs from USL as USL 's ‘ largest customer ’ : low royalties , available source , open interfaces , technological innovation and resolution of any channel conflict with SunSoft . |
| 4 | He has a great deal of land , his fingers in numerous profit-making pies , owns racehorses — and , of course , the added bonus of being extremely attractive to women . |
| 5 | Basil , my five-year-old has also been working , as he has a great deal to learn to ensure he will begin his eventing career in March filled with confidence . |
| 6 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 7 | He worries a great deal about the house . ’ |
| 8 | He loves opera , in that the long rehearsal span and run of performances allows him ‘ to get the psychology out of the way in the first few days ’ — clearly , he worries a great deal about the mental interchange with his workforce — but he intends to keep a balance with concert work . |
| 9 | Some of his projects , such as Nicaragua , are done for hardly any money and on some of them , he loses a great deal of money . |
| 10 | Though he travels a good deal in his job as an engineering manager , he could now enjoy the prospect of climbing , walking and fishing in the beautiful scenery he loves . |
| 11 | So naturally he travels a great deal , and is in demand as a consultant wherever Roman sites are being excavated . |
| 12 | He gets a great deal by showing his landscapes at one shilling each visitor . |
| 13 | And he attributes a great deal of that to the rapid growth of the development of private homes within his area . |
| 14 | He 's my dead brother 's son and he means a great deal to me . |
| 15 | There are two parts of his life to which he devotes a great deal of space , and to which he returns again and again . |
| 16 | First , he makes a great deal of the struggle with Satan in which Jesus is involved both in the temptation in the wilderness into which the Spirit thrusts him ( Mark 1:12 ) immediately after his baptism ; and also in the healings and exorcisms which follow during the ministry . |
| 17 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
| 18 | Remember that a lecturer is usually appointed , not because he can teach , but because he knows a great deal about a particular topic in which he has specialised . |