Example sentences of "who [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will team up with Widnes star John Devereux who agreed a short-term deal with Manly coach Graham Lowe last week . |
| 2 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 3 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 4 | In the middle are figures such as Godfrey Bradman and Stuart Lipton who build a great deal . |
| 5 | Even if you are drawn against an élite performer who has a great deal of experience , the fact that you may be younger , hungrier , fitter could be to your advantage . |
| 6 | Arthur Bennett was a builder and house decorator , living in Croydon , England , who devoted a great deal of time and energy to the study of the Scottish flora . |
| 7 | Indeed , even those who endure a great deal of suffering and loneliness will nonetheless claim that life still offers rich and satisfying experiences . |
| 8 | I am grateful both to the Education spokespersons who put a great deal of time in , in order to carry out erm their preparations towards this report and to and to take part in the consultation exercises and to my own colleagues . |
| 9 | Only the Paternoster , he recalled , would have described a revival of Priestley 's An Inspector Calls as a play about a very tiresome girl who caused a great deal of trouble to a respectable family . |
| 10 | This is hardly surprising amongst members of a profession who earn a good deal of their living by talking . |
| 11 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 12 | Our strong regional and branch structure is a tremendous asset and I pay tribute to the many members centrally and regionally who give a great deal of voluntary time to the profession and their Institute . |
| 13 | ‘ I must put on record my admiration for Pc Court who showed a great deal of bravery in bringing this action . ’ |
| 14 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 15 | It seemed to have the knack of attracting some of the most bizarre characters who spent a great deal of the inter-war years building up little empires for themselves with scant regard for any overall espionage policy . |
| 16 | Englishmen who spent a great deal of their time on horseback around 200 hundred years ago liked to bathe and change before dining . |
| 17 | Jill Ireland renewed her cuddling relationship with Williams and Donald Sinden , Donald Houston and Andrew Ray were among those who spent a great deal of their time wearing bathrobes and dressing gowns , hopping in and out of bed — for strictly medical reasons , of course . |
| 18 | And that was someone from Nottingham University who spent a great deal of time grumbling about the bus service from Mansfield to Edwinstowe . |
| 19 | Pearce , who signed a five-year deal worth around £1million two years ago , is looking for a rise despite a wage packet that puts him on nearly £4,000 a week . |
| 20 | Shoppers who get a raw deal can write to an ombudsman |
| 21 | DUCHESS ‘ A LOVELY LADY WHO TAKES A GREAT DEAL OF INTEREST IN PEOPLE ’ |
| 22 | These may not always be the people who sparkle a great deal because they often have a maverick quality . |
| 23 | Royston Lambert , who undertook a great deal of research for the Commission , recorded the prayer of a twelve-year-old boy : |
| 24 | Because these men who knew with such unquestionable certainty the difference between right and wrong , and who blithely described the garotters as creatures capable of responding only to the fear of physical pain , were people who knew a great deal about physical pain . |
| 25 | He was a quick noisy individual who laughed a great deal and sang or whistled constantly . |
| 26 | Beside her , in earnest conversation with her , was a man of about twenty-six or -seven , who appeared a good deal more mature than the other male guests . |
| 27 | The people who move a good deal are often described as being ‘ full of nervous energy ’ . |
| 28 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |
| 29 | He was a brilliant man who had a great deal of influence — in fact , he was one of the few doges who wielded any real authority . |
| 30 | Hypochondria is thought to be a result of repressed emotions and secret fears , and it is far more likely to develop in families where there is a preoccupation with illness , or in people who have a great deal of contact with invalids as children . |