Example sentences of "good deal of [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Benefits Agency spokesman said the discretionary nature of the Social Fund scheme permitted local officers a good deal of flexibility in cases where they could provide assistance .
2 There was a good deal of discussion in December 1902 , as to who was responsible for the cost of road widening , the B.E.T .
3 The inter-war years saw a good deal of activity in North Shields by the local branch of the National Unemployed Workers Movement ( NUWM ; see CDP , 1978 ) , whose main base of support was on the Meadowell .
4 ‘ I have a good deal of experience in staff relations , ’ he said .
5 Even in the 1660s Charles II had been complaining in London that his correspondence with his sister , the Duchess of Orleans , was being regularly opened in the French post , while from about 1748 Louis XV himself began to take a good deal of interest in work of this kind .
6 What they had in common was that they were all perceived by the development officers as requiring a good deal of care in order to be sustained at home , and as not having all those care needs filled by either informal or statutory carers .
7 This naming seems close to the boring and routine ‘ normal science ’ that Thomas Kuhn described in his Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( 1970 ) ; there is a good deal of routine in science , as in other things , but it is not always the most eminent who have done the interesting bits .
8 Many people consume a good deal of sugar in drinks .
9 THERE is a good deal of embarrassment in Paris over l'affaire de la Musee Jacquemart-Andre .
10 Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year .
11 ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark .
12 Thus in Europe , automobiles have been subjected to a good deal of standardization in matters concerning safety and pollution , but that has not precluded the car industry from providing a vast range of choice in terms of styling and performance .
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