Example sentences of "good deal of [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1980 the succession of troubles along the Iran-Iraq border , combined with uncertainty as to the international behaviour to be expected of post-revolutionary Iran , was provoking a good deal of disquiet in the outside world , particularly among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) states . |
| 2 | There was usually a good deal of flexibility in the organisation of these political departments : their number and scope altered easily and often to meet changing demands . |
| 3 | This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run . |
| 4 | The problems noted above are intensified for the management of stock revision programmes ; these are carried out by staff who are either subject specialists or who have in the course of the stock revision acquired a good deal of knowledge about the subject literature — certainly more than the line manager . |
| 5 | They did , however , provide a good deal of entertainment for the rest of the group and would be missed if they did not turn up for a game . |
| 6 | Mecir , whose world ranking has dropped to 26 chiefly as a result of back injuries , ought to add a good deal of craft to the Silk Cut Championships at Wembley next month . |
| 7 | It thus differs from business education whose concern is more broadly based in terms of areas of knowledge and the techniques relevant to business operations , though , of course , there is a good deal of overlap between the two subject areas . |
| 8 | Midianite : the inter-change of terms sound confused , but from late patriarchal times on , there was in fact a good deal of overlap in the use of the terms " Midianite " , " Ishmaelite " , " Medanite " , " Moabite " . |
| 9 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 10 | A good deal of discussion towards the end of the meeting turned around the University 's interest in setting up an alumni society . |
| 11 | This arrangement was made more systematic in 1688 ; and after 1719 there was a good deal of discussion of the status and powers of secretaries of this kind . |
| 12 | Many of them certainly need a good deal of instruction in the art of lecturing . |
| 13 | The Attorney General had , under instructions , done a good deal of work on the issue . |
| 14 | During that spring and summer the Australians enjoyed a good deal of help from the locals . |
| 15 | Dyble added the conversion and another big victory looked on the cards , but Basingstoke showed a good deal of spirit in the final half-hour . |
| 16 | In the following six years the NCNC succeeded in attracting a good deal of support amongst the Yoruba of western Nigeria . |
| 17 | The polytechnic staff were now on a work to rule , though only at local level — a vote or so at national level having gone against them in spite of a good deal of cooking of the agenda — and she was , as she said , too busy getting a strike fund to so much as think of earning , let alone working ; let alone getting to bed before Bernard had long since fallen asleep . |
| 18 | A good deal of credit for the organisation must go to Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber , the French politician and publicist , who established the centre with extraordinary speed . |
| 19 | He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues . |
| 20 | However , a good number of geographers have conducted recreational surveys in the last 20 years and a good deal of experience in the methods and techniques for conducting visitor surveys , in particular , has been obtained , so that it is now generally agreed that the following procedure should be followed : |
| 21 | Kelly has shown recently that correct calculations about the shearing strength of solids are rather complicated and that there is a good deal of variation between the theoretical shear strengths of various substances . |
| 22 | At the same time there was a good deal of variation in the ways in which the Bible was understood and interpreted by different groups of reformers , and this led to a further fragmentation of the previously unified world of Christendom . |
| 23 | She did a good deal of field-work in the pubs of commuterland , achieving in her story ‘ Summer Schools ’ ( also in the 1958 volume ) an almost ‘ Gothic ’ horror . |
| 24 | This process shows great cunning on the part of Nature , also a good deal of cleverness on the part of George . |
| 25 | However , we can point to a good deal of information on the effectiveness of signing in communication and in various aspects of language development ( Moores , 1978 ; Quigley , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | There is , however , a good deal of information in the texts about the wordings suitable for trusts . |
| 27 | There is little public interest in the business of politics and a good deal of contempt for the political process and the political class . |
| 28 | This needs a good deal of confidence on the part of the teacher , but is very productive as real responsibility for decision-making is transferred to the children . |
| 29 | But the public still had a good deal of confidence in the armed forces and the police , although both were held in less regard than they were ten years ago . |
| 30 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |