Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would have turned down 2 million ( $3 million ) but when the bid nudged 3 million ( $4.5 million ) it became a good deal for us . ’ |
| 2 | It was unpopular politically , as it involved a good deal of compulsion , and did not survive the chaos of independence . |
| 3 | It involved a great deal of counting , sorting , matching , etc . |
| 4 | It occasioned a great deal of comment and controversy at the time . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid that when I dropped out of sight it created a great deal of concern in the village . |
| 6 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 7 | She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money . |
| 8 | The spider affair as it was called went all over the school before the day was out , it caused a great deal of laughter . |
| 9 | It received a good deal less consideration than it deserved from those whose concern with the quality of teacher education led them ( as it led us ) to the opposite view . |
| 10 | It claims it secured a substantial deal for Scotland , one that ensured that Lang will not have patronage over the Scottish allocation of seats on the European Committee of the Regions . |
| 11 | There was nothing valuable in it , though it seemed a great deal in the eyes of these people . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm built for action , and it seemed a raw deal being dumped in a desolate corner of London with the kind of instructions you 'd give an old man on retirement . |
| 13 | But although his mind was detached from day-to-day events it brooded a good deal on longer-term considerations . |
| 14 | As an exercise , it was valuable for Glass even if it aroused a great deal of hostility . |
| 15 | It was at this point that Laba had effected the only feasible escape procedure for such circumstances , although it required a good deal of luck . |
| 16 | As well as medical preparations , it contained a great deal of comparative anatomy , including fossils . |
| 17 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 18 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 19 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 20 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 21 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 22 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 23 | It took a great deal of effort not to wriggle about as much as I normally did , but I feared him panicking more than the physical discomfort . |
| 24 | It took a great deal of acting skill not to show her vast irritation . |
| 25 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 26 | It took a great deal of effort to resist adding the word ‘ yet ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ It took a great deal of courage for one man to stand up to the tobacco industry . |
| 28 | ‘ On the contrary , my lovely , it did a great deal for me . |
| 29 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 30 | It sounded a good deal more basic than , say , Holy Communion at Cranborne School . |