Example sentences of "they have a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have they had a raw deal ? |
| 2 | Despite their distinctiveness , they had a good deal in common with the other upper-class groups ; and they were an important source of loans for the growing group of entrepreneurs . |
| 3 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 4 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 5 | Thus , older workers were more than twice as likely as those under 40 to say that they had a great deal of respect for the top management at the firm ( 72 per cent ) . |
| 6 | When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about . |
| 7 | They had a great deal of trouble |
| 8 | All agreed they had a rough deal as their work often involved great pain . |
| 9 | A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt. |
| 10 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 11 | Whether they be Asian African or European , they have a great deal more in common than most of their respective citizens would have with one another . |
| 12 | They have a great deal of love and affection for the small stores , and the Minister will go down in history as the woman who wrecked them . |
| 13 | Directly and indirectly , they have a great deal of influence over curricular matters . |
| 14 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 15 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 16 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |