Example sentences of "good deal of [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A central feature of the government 's binary policy and the concept of a ‘ public sector ’ was the decision to concentrate a good deal of advanced work in a new generation of ‘ polytechnics ’ — a title borrowed from an earlier response to technological and economic demand — the generation of polytechnics created in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A good deal of philosophical writing about what is called intentionality suggests that it is likely that this line of objection , that objects or contents are sometimes missing , has another wholly different root , in a certain confusion . |
| 4 | The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics . |
| 5 | There has in fact been a good deal of legal commentary in recent months as to the effectiveness of warranties , but it would be advisable for a tenant to take up warranties ( in a standard and acceptable form ) if they are available . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the period 1955–70 , a good deal of sociological work in ethnic relations was centred around a different , but related problem — that of the integration of black immigrants into British society . |
| 8 | The class teacher will also gain a good deal of useful information by observing how the visually handicapped pupils handle and attempt to use visual material . |
| 9 | In the USA on the other hand , a good deal of useful research in these areas has been undertaken . |
| 10 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 11 | For example , there has been a good deal of solid research on the changing nature of the mining industries in the Third World , once entirely and now less entirely dominated by First World TNCs . |
| 12 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 13 | There is also a good deal of bottled-up passion in him , as witnessed in a brilliant mock-rejection scene with Hal . |
| 14 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
| 15 | Unlike most written discourse and a good deal of spoken discourse like lectures , broadcasts , and speeches , a conversation is constructed and executed as it happens , by two people , feeling their way forward together . |
| 16 | This work , rather like the reverse of an Anglo-Saxon coin , caused a good deal of destructive amusement among the other boys , but Basil , in the end and in a very clever way made his valuation of this boy 's work real to them too . |
| 17 | The government 's answer had been to increase the responsibilities and accountability of management and put a good deal of political energy into the efficiency strategy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was true that Miss Devenish let slip a good deal of fragmentary information about Tolby . |
| 20 | While there is a good deal of intuitive sense in the observation that social workers and teachers respond to financial and other economic incentives like most workers , it is a hypothesis rather than an empirically supported contention . |
| 21 | Consideration , yes — anything less is to use one 's partner as a sexual object and less than human and a good deal of sexual dissonance between partners is a result of lack of this mutuality of feeling ; but to allow consideration of a partner 's pleasure to override the joy of sex for oneself is not only unfortunately genteel and polite , it may mean that the partner 's pleasure is actually diminished by one 's timorous courtesy . |
| 22 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 23 | The CD is the more tonally varied , featuring the excellent Lew Soloff playing a good deal of street-festival trumpet on some irresistible buoyant themes . |
| 24 | He had read a good deal of French romance for his Sir Gawain edition , and may have reflected further that even Beowulf has a kind of ‘ interlace ’ technique . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There is a good deal of informal communication about courses in particular subjects , some of it passing along the external examiner grapevine , some of it through the ‘ invisible colleges ’ of research networks . |
| 29 | But despite their limitations , circulation measures can provide librarians with a good deal of valuable information for the assessment of stock and user needs , and the promoters of automated circulation systems have been quick to point out the facilities such systems offer for a closer analysis of detail . |