Example sentences of "they [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon they got a one-single deal on Epic . |
| 2 | ‘ And your conclusions are far from worthless , they make a good deal of sense to me . |
| 3 | It is well known that when parents talk to young children they repeat a great deal of what the child says ( and , of course , also expand it ) . |
| 4 | They shouted a great deal , and waved their arms . |
| 5 | They want a fair deal and , under the Administration of my right hon. Friend the Member for Islywn ( Mr. Kinnock ) , justice and fair play is what they will get . |
| 6 | They made council housing a priority , and they halved the housing , they promised a better deal for local government and ended up with the elderly freezing in their homes , rubbish piled in the streets and the dead unburied . |
| 7 | They place a great deal of importance on the power of positive thought . |
| 8 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 9 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 10 | And J. D. O'Connor liked my articles — he said they created a great deal of excitement and interest ; I wrote under the name of Vesta . |
| 11 | They are not designed basically to protect animals and , as has already been mentioned , they depend a great deal upon the use of the animal . |
| 12 | Whatever personal suffering the laws caused — and there is no doubt they caused a great deal — there is little to suggest that the development of the eighteenth-century economy was frustrated by an unusual level of institutionally produced labour immobility . |
| 13 | For example , the sailing ship Thomas Bell , which left Funchal on 8 November 1887 and arrived in Hawaii on 14 April 1888 ( 156 days via Cape Horn ) , had 400 emigrants on board and they suffered a great deal from sea-sickness and hunger . |
| 14 | They vary a good deal depending on the distance between the critics ' positions and outlooks and Barth 's own . |
| 15 | I must admit I , I really do n't agree with that , I mean I find that many women who have had erm children actually their figure has improved after the children , they look a great deal better and I certainly do n't think that many women in Scotland looked vast after they 've had children , I totally disagree with that . |
| 16 | Living with the Keraing and his wife was a very public affair ; and , although they barked a good deal at the constant throng which invaded their household while we were there , they were traditionally in no position to deny them entrance , and each resident of Bira got his chance lengthily to observe our every blink and mannerism . |
| 17 | Have they had a raw deal ? |
| 18 | It is also true that many older people , who were trained rigorously in the disciplines of study fashionable before 1960 , think that they know a great deal about language , but in fact imbibed many false notions from their schooling . |
| 19 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 20 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
| 21 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 22 | A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation . |
| 23 | As a fellow Australian and all-round boozer , Flynn took a tremendous liking to Finch , and , not surprisingly , they spent a good deal of time drinking together . |
| 24 | They get a good deal really do n't they ? |
| 25 | Whether they are in a particular building in one place or another , actually I could n't give a monkey 's as a parent , and I do n't care where the school is as long as I can get my kids there and they get a good deal . |
| 26 | Under pressure from the federal government and the eastern states — some of which threaten to go to the federal constitutional court unless they get a better deal — the pfennig-pinching westerners are now ready to put up an extra DM15 billion ( $10 billion ) over the next four years . |
| 27 | However , there are some products which are likely to be of particular interest to older people and some areas where mechanisms are needed to ensure they get a fair deal . |
| 28 | When it comes to sex talk in the classroom boys , both girls and boys reckon they get a raw deal . |
| 29 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 30 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |