Example sentences of "good deal of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the ultimate objectives , the fact remains that a good deal of the existing work within the comparative industrial relations field , although often rich and insightful , has not so far been explicitly theoretical in either its purpose or method ( Shalev , 1980a ) . |
| 2 | A good deal of the administrative law of ocean transportation is concerned with licensing and tariff issues , which also require a definition of ‘ carrier . ’ |
| 3 | He argues that a good deal of the apparent need for substitute child care is produced by social deprivation and its attendant pressures , rather than by parental inadequacy or culpability per se . |
| 4 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 5 | A good deal of the extensive baths has been excavated and the city presents the tourist of today with perhaps the most splendidly restored of all Roman remains in Europe . ’ |
| 6 | Naturally enough , war raged fiercely in Spain ; in 1704 the English captured Gibraltar and held on to it , initially as a base for their communications in Spain ; a good deal of the naval activity of the war took place around Spanish waters and the English managed to stop the Bourbon forces from setting up any effective siege of Gibraltar . |
| 7 | The once-familiar Victorian grime has gone — along with many of the buildings which it coated — and so , regrettably , has a good deal of the local character . |
| 8 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 9 | Embargoes should be used only if they are really necessary and a good deal of the embargoed material which reaches an editor 's desk does not really need this form of restriction . |
| 10 | When , as tutor to the heir to the throne , Chicherin saw a good deal of the royal family in 1864 , the tsar put him in mind of a major in the army . |
| 11 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 12 | A good deal of the upbeat feel reported last month gave way to dismay and much questioning , which reached a crescendo over the selection of the second Test 12 with its five changes . |
| 13 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 14 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |