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

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1 After a good deal of broad mockery of the group 's thespian pretensions , there follows yet another change of tack as the troupe 's hitherto self-absorbed leader , Genesius ( Louis Hilyer ) , converts to Christianity and is martyred for denouncing the oppressive regime .
2 Very high altitudes can also be attained by the employment of natural and artificial harmonics , but here again the use of these is the exception rather than the rule , and a good deal of practical knowledge of string technique is required for their safe and appropriate use .
3 The Victorian middle class seems to have become entangled in a good deal of bad faith of this kind by its attempts to imitate an aristocratic life which it did not fully understand .
4 The conclusion was that ‘ children display a good deal of social learning of an incidental imitative sort , and that nurturance is one condition facilitating such imitative learning ’ .
5 And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar .
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